Super Mario Bros. is a side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer in Japan, designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka with music by Koji Kondo. Players control the plumber Mario, or his brother Luigi in a two-player mode, through eight worlds to rescue Princess Toadstool, later known as Peach, from the villain Bowser. Its release is widely credited with reviving the North American home video game market, which had collapsed in 1983, once the game came out with the Nintendo Entertainment System. It sold tens of millions of copies, was long the best-selling video game of all time, and established conventions of the platform genre. Mario became Nintendo's flagship character, with a long line of sequels and spin-offs.
Before and after
- 13 July 1985Live Aid
- 31 August 1985Birth of Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud
- 1 September 1985The wreck of the Titanic is found
- 9 September 1985Birth of Luka Modrić
- 13 September 1985Release of Super Mario Bros.
- 30 September 1985Release of Microsoft Excel
- 3 October 1985First flight of Atlantis
- 24 October 1985Birth of Wayne Rooney
- 16 November 1985Birth of Sanna Marin
More in Science & technology
- 1949Discovery of berkelium
- 1955Discovery of mendelevium
- 14 February 1961Discovery of lawrencium
- 9 November 1994Discovery of darmstadtium
- 8 December 1994Discovery of roentgenium
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
The era
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