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Mario Bros.
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Name: Mario Bros. Developer: Nintendo Year: 1983 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Mario Bros. Pinout Settings: Mario Bros. Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Sound: Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)
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Mario Bros. DescriptionTurtles, crabs, and flies come pouring out of the waterworks. Hit the floor beneath them to flip them over, then kick them into the water. Collect coins for bonus points.Mario Bros. was produced by Nintendo in 1983. Nintendo released 107 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1970. Other machines made by Nintendo during the time period Mario Bros. was produced include Tennis, Mario Bros. (PlayChoice), Donkey Kong 3, Balloon Fight, Duck Hunt, Sky Skipper, Popeye, Donkey Kong Junior, Donkey Kong, and Vs. UniSystem. Mario Bros. - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.91 (20 votes)
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet InformationThe game was originally released in the dedicated wide-body cabinet seen above. Many later games were built as conversions, often using other Nintendo cabinets like the orange Donkey Kong Junior cabinet shown on the right.Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
ConversionThe conversion kit came with the control panel assembly, front plexiglass, marquee, sideart, hardware to re-orient the monitor, the PCB and the wiring harnesses. It was designed to quickly convert Donkey Kong and similar Nintendo series cabinets.Game IntroductionMario Mario and Luigi Mario the Mario Brothers must try to get rid of Shellcreepers turtles, Sidesteppers crabs need to be hit twice, and Fighterflies fliescan only be defeated while they touch the platform who come pouring out of the waterworks.Hit the floor beneath them to flip them over, then kick them into the water. Collect coins for bonus.Later, the Slipice will come out and freeze the platforms making your traction very poor. As the game progresses water drops hang below the platforms and freeze into deadly icicles which fall soon after. Keep track of the green fireballs as they will appear more frequenly. The red fireball can also be a menace. If you have to you can hit the fireballs from below when they touch the platform. Beware of hitting the red fireball. It rapidly reappears and moves much faster. Hit the POW platform to knock over your enemies and destroy fireballs. Be wise, you only get three per level. Each difficulty level begins with three POW's and a bonus wave which coins are collected Game PlayThe first player controls Mario blue and the second player controls Luigi green. You can either work together to kill all the opponents, or compete by putting the other player in a position to be killed.Hacks
VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Mario Bros. CensusThere are 12,133 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,623 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 163,035 machines (6,848 unique titles).Very Common - There are approximately 543 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 204 of these machines are owned by our active Mario Bros. collectors. And of these, 148 are original dedicated machines, 28 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 28 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with Mario Bros. machines for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with extra Mario Bros. circuit boards for sale. Wanted - Popular - There are 13 active VAPS members currently looking for Mario Bros.. This game ranks a 80 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 45 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TriviaThe idea that this game would be for two players did not come about until Shigeru Miyamoto was inspired by Williams' Joust.The name for Mario's brother, Luigi, who is introduced in this game, came from a pizza parlor nearby the then-new Redmond, Washington headquarters of Nintendo of America called "Mario and Luigi's." Legacy
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