probably not, as the probability of Luigi having anything but green in his wardrobe is considerably less than the probability that there's other people on this construction site who look a bit like Mario if you reduce them to 16 pixels in height. the year before:Ĭould this second Mario be Luigi? I'm going to say.

but I feel like I'll be safer playing single player for now.Īctually this might not technically be Luigi's first appearance, as Mario was already hanging out with his identical twin in Donkey Kong Jr. I'm sure it's purely coincidence that Mario's wearing Superman's colours while Luigi dresses like Lex Luthor in dungarees. because it introduces Mario's brother Luigi for the first time, so that player two can join in as an ally or antagonist. Oh that's a point, I should mention that the game's called Mario Bros. though was able to join the rest of the Mario Trilogy as the sixth ever Famicom game.

didn't quite make it onto the new console as a launch title in Japan, but I suppose they had to get some money out of the arcade machines before letting people play it at home.

Only a lunatic would decide to launch their début console right in the middle of the great American video game crash of '83 though, and that's why Sega launched their first console on the same day! say a day or two longer before the Famicom was launched on 15 July 1983. Nintendo were still exclusively an arcade developer at the time this was released (if Wikipedia is to be believed, and I trust them implicitly), but this only lasted about. This was Mario's third role I believe, after Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr, but the first to feature his name in the title. Today on Super Adventures I'm having a quick go of the original Mario Bros.

But that excuse is four years old now as well and I've grown bored of it, so I decided to kick off Super Adventures Year Five with a month-long MARIO MARATHON, showing off the top titles from the iconic plumber's first 10 years in the hero business! I'll also throw a few non-Nintendo requested games in there as well, because too much undiluted Mario could drive anyone crazy.Īlso, if you scroll up you'll see that I've made the site a brand new, slightly more dynamic hand-pixelled logo for its birthday! Kinda starting to wish now that I'd baked a cake instead though. I figured that I'd have nothing to say about the games that hadn't been analysed and argued about a thousand times by now, making my trivia trite and all my observations entirely pointless. I looked at the Game Boy version of Donkey Kong a while back and that had a bit of jumping in it if I recall, but otherwise I've stayed well clear of the classics. Super Adventures is four years old today, and yet somehow in all that time I never did play a proper Super Mario Bros.

Mario bros original arcade game