Enemies are walking down toward you and you have to jump on the platform they are standing on to knock them on their back. Until all of a sudden, Turtles, Crabs, Flies, and more are invading the sewers. Mario and his brother Luigi are plumbers in Brooklyn, New York.

Mario Bros was released back in 1983 and is simply an Arcade Game where you gotta rack up those points. It's not the game that changed video games forever. It reminded me of the good times my bro and I played Mario 3 on NES.Mario Bros. This is basically the one-player mode, but with another player – Luigi! While the game can be played cooperatively, I found that more fun was to be had playing against the other player! It is fun to knock the POW block just as the other player is about to kick a flipped over turtle for points. When things get to complicated, Mario also has the option of using the “POW” block which knocks all the enemies on their backs, but be careful because after a short amount of time, enemies flip back over and become way more difficult to destroy.Ī fun addition I did not initially play was the multiplayer mode. It sounds simple – and early stages are, but as the game progresses, more complex enemies are introduced that move quicker and are more difficult to knock over. To do this, he must knock them from below a platform to knock them on their back, and then kick them by touching them! After all enemies are destroyed, the player goes onto the next stage. His goal is to dispatch all of the creatures coming out from the sewers. Strange creatures have begun to emerge from the sewers, so they head down to the sewers to figure out what is going and to get rid of them!Īt its core, Mario is a 2D platforming game. The story of the game is simple, but sets the stage for all future Mario games! Mario and his brother Luigi are plumbers living in New York City. Today I am goin to talk to you guys about another that not only starred Mario, but introduced the world to many stables of the Mario franchise like turtles, green pipes, and Mario’s awesome brother Luigi! Mario Bros was released in 1983 in arcades – a full two years before it saw a release on the NES in 1985. In fact, there had been a couple of games released like the arcade classic Donkey Kong that starred Mario. When I first got my NES when I was 6, I didn’t realize the Super Mario Bro’s wasn’t the first game with Mario in it.

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