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25 Years of Super Mario Bros.

Posted by Soulskill on from the don't-let-him-get-into-the-birthday-beer dept.

harrymcc writes "On September 13th 1985, Nintendo released Super Mario Bros. for the Famicom (NES) in Japan. It went on to become the best-selling video game of all time, a title it only recently lost. Over at Technologizer, Benj Edwards is celebrating the anniversary with a look at some of the weirdest variations, spinoffs, and tributes the game has inspired over the years, from edibles to art projects." The Guardian's games blog adds a bunch of Mario-related trivia, and CVG attempts to explain the history of Mario games. Nintendo is capitalizing on the anniversary by announcing an upcoming collection of classic Mario games (Japanese site, English explanation) that have been ported to the Wii.

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  1. Heads up on that Mario collection by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 3, Informative

    it's just a Wii port of Mario All Stars that came out in the US for SNES, same graphics and all.

    The booklet and the soundtrack seem interesting packins though.

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  2. And today is also... by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 3, Informative

    Programmers' Day, the 256th day of the year. Quite a coincidence.

  3. The Best-Selling Video Game of All Time... by Monkey · · Score: 4, Informative

    For anyone wondering, the "best-selling video game of all time" is Wii Sports.

    1. Re:The Best-Selling Video Game of All Time... by Patch86 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Super Mario Bros. was bundled with the console originally too. Presumably we weren't disqualifying that.

      Mine was a SMB/Duck Hunt twin-pak, and was awesome I might add.

  4. Re:Twenty-five years? by commodore64_love · · Score: 3, Informative

    You think that's old? It's been 33 years since I first laid hands on an Atari console (still one of my favorite machines) with its Commodore-produced 6502 CPU and TIA sound/graphics chip (with an amazing 30x20 resolution).

    The Famicom was released in 1983 so we're talking about 27 year old technology! Its contemporaries were the Intellivision, Colecovision, Atari 5200 SuperSystem, Apple IIc/e, and C=64. (The Mac and Amiga didn't even exist yet.) Ancient, old, ancient technology. But hella fun.

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  5. Re:One of Commodore's best sellers by theaveng · · Score: 3, Informative

    Commodore had nothing to do with the 6502

    MOS was owned by Commodore. i.e. Same company. In fact one reason Commodore VIC-20 and 64 was so much cheaper than the competition was because they charged Atari, Apple, et cetera thrice the price that Commodore charged itself, so they could sell computers at only $150 each. Atari/Apple couldn't even get close.

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