30 Years of Super Mario Bros

30 Years of Super Mario Bros: From the plumber to the best-selling game in history

 It’s 30 years since Mario, the Nintendo mascot already, appeared in the game world and changed it forever. His mission to save the Peach Princess, with the help of his brother Luigi, from Browser, the negative character, has already fascinated generations.

Super Mario Bros. was launched on September 13, 1985, in Japan, and his success brought him quite quickly abroad. In 2005, Imagine Network said it was the best game of all time, considering it helped resuscitate the video game market in the United States.

Game popularity has made huge sales for Nintendo, breaking a new record. Super Mario Bros. was declared the best-selling Wii video game of all time, with more than 40 million copies sold worldwide. This title was finally taken by Wii Sports, but it was still in the Nintendo yard. In order to adapt to modern times, the company has launched several versions tailored for state-of-the-art consoles.

To celebrate the 30 years since the Italian plumber walked through the Mushroom Land to save the princess, I gathered some interesting things about the game that you probably did not know.

Mario was originally known as Jumpman

Originally created for the Donkey Kong game, which unfortunately did not enjoy the desired success, Mario, which we now know, was actually Jumpman. The Nintendo United States Branch hired a storage room from a certain Mario Segale, while working on the details of launching the game on the West Market. He had the honor of being the most beloved character in the world of video games after him, and that's because Mario Seagale was lenient to Nintendo and allowed them to delay paying rent for the storage room.

Mario started his career as a carpenter, not a plumber

Mario's initial version embodied him as a carpenter. In fact, Mario has one of the most varied CVs in the world. He worked as a doctor, motorist, tennis coach, golf player, or boxer. His name is not Mario, as Hollywood might have made you believe. According to the film made after the famous game, the protagonist name would be Mario, which was contradicted by his creator, Miyamoto. "As Mickey Mouse does not have a surname, so Mario is just Mario. The same is true of Luigi, "he told Game Informer in 2012.

Super Mario Bros 2 is a lazy recycling

Super Mario Bros 2 was always the black sheep of 2D games. Instead of jumping on enemies, you squat and make them hit each other. The game is different from the original version, and that's because it's a badly done sequel after another Japanese game, Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic. The action is the same, but the characters are replaced by the famous Mario, Lugi & co.

Though it may seem like a bad move from Nintendo, who were lazy in the development of this game, it was received very well, and its soundtrack has long been in the minds of the players.

Nintendo has released gloves to prevent injuries caused by the Mario Party game.

Nintendo and Mario faced some problems in 2002, when more children suffered cuts, jaws and jaws on their hands because of the joystick they used to play Mario Party. To prevent a trial from parents, Nintendo decided to distribute protective gloves to Mario Party players.

The song for Super Mario has been very successful in the charts

The well-known song that comes to your head and does not come out for a while is called Ground Theme and is the result of the work of Koji Kondo, a songwriter at Nintendo.

It enjoyed a resounding success when the ringtone was in vogue, and it's spent more than 120 weeks on the Billboard, one of the world's leading music charts. Even more interesting, the song was reinterpreted by orchestras from all over the world. Above you can enjoy the London Symphony Orchestra.

Donkey Kong JR is the only game in which Mario is a villain

We know Mario and admire him because he is a good man who keeps his family and his welfare. However, there is a game in which it surprises us with some evil grip.

In Donkey Kong Jr., Mario turns into a villain who locks the giant monkey in a cage so his son comes to save her. Mario's must have also undergone a change in this game, and is worthy of any "evil genius."And, in contrast, Browser, the negative character of Super Mario Bros, played the role of a good boy. He joined the forces of good in the Super Mario RPG. The flamethrower allied with Mario and his friends to knock down an alien who had invaded the game.

Mario was almost a bad boy with good intentions

Now we are not talking about Mario as a villain, but as a dangerous boy. Originally, it was conceived as a lethal judge. Mario would have fought in the Kingdom of the Musketeers armed with a machine gun and cannon. The game almost included stages in which Mario would have sailed into a space shuttle from which to shoot with lethal weapons, but game developers have decided to follow a less violent path.

Super Mario Bros. has the size of 256KB

It is true that the revolutionary game industry initially had a quarter of megabit. In comparison, the newest version for Wii is 1702MB. That means it is seven thousand times bigger than the initial version of the game.

Chain Chops were inspired by a traumatic event in Miyamoto's childhood. The Chomps Chain, the biting balls, is like a stab at Mario's back when they tried to bite a piece of it for the first time. These metal monsters are inspired by a real event.

A traumatic memory from the childhood of the creator, Miyamoto. It is based on an event in which he was about to be bitten by a neighbor's dog, but he was pulled back by the chain he had on his throat.

Mario looks what he looks about because of the limitations imposed by hardware. Mario's mustache and red jumpsuit are not randomly chosen. Probably the developers would have been more inventive if they were not limited by the hardware capabilities ever.

The machine was unable to turn hair in a realistic way, so a hat was more than necessary. Also, the mouths were misleading at the time, so the mustache came perfectly to cover it, and the red jumpsuit meant that the user could see Mario's movements.

You can buy a Mario Kart in natural size

Nintendo has made a partnership with a toy company to launch a natural-sized kart, just like Mario Kart. It is not equipped with the arsenal of turtle shells and banana shells, but it can play sound effects in the game.

Mario was easier to recognize American children than Mickey Mouse

According to a study by Q, in the 1990s, Mario was more easily recognized by children than the legendary Mickey Mouse. More recently, the Book of Records has said Pac-Man as the most recognizable symbol of adult video games, while Mario follows him closely.