when was the first mario bros. arcade game released
July 14, 1983
title: Mario Bros. text: Mario 3D World" contains Luigi Bros, a version of "Mario Bros." starring Luigi. This game will be unlocked if the Wii U console contains save data from "New Super Luigi U" or the player completes all normal worlds. On September 27, 2017 the original arcade version of Mario Bros. was released for the Nintendo Switch as part of the Arcade Archives series of emulated arcade machine games. "Mario Bros." was only modestly successful in Japanese arcades. The arcade cabinets have since become mildly rare. To date in Japan, the NES version of "Mario Bros." has sold more than 1.63 million title: Mario (franchise) text: and six million Coleco cartridges, and "Mario Bros." which sold 1.72 million Famicom cartridges. Mario (franchise) The franchise is a media franchise, published and produced by video game company Nintendo, starring the fictional Italian character Mario. It is primarily a video game franchise, with the franchise's other forms of media including several television series and a feature film. It was originally created by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto with the arcade game "Donkey Kong", released on July 9, 1981. The games have been developed by a variety of developers including Nintendo, Hudson Soft, and AlphaDream. Most "Mario" games have either been title: Nintendo arcade machines text: be "Donkey Kong" (1981) and "Mario Bros." (1983). Many of Nintendo's games were also released for their Japan-only Color TV home console series, which played arcade games on home televisions. Nintendo's first series of home consoles was commercially successful. Computer Othello (June 1978) is a clone of the board game "Reversi". It was the first game produced by Nintendo R&D1, the team that later produced the first "Mario", "Donkey Kong", "Duck Hunt", and "Kid Icarus" games. R&D1 was led by Gunpei Yokoi, who later created the Game Boy, and included "Mario" and "Legend of Zelda" creator Shigeru Miyamoto. Block Fever title: Mario Bros. text: than a dozen platforms. The first movement from Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" is used at the start of the game. This song has been used in later video games, including "Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix" and "Super Smash Bros. Brawl". Despite its innovations, Mario Bros. was not a major success in North America due to the video game crash in 1983. It did however receive a number of home versions on the Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari 7800, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum. The Commodore 64 had two versions: an Atarisoft port which was not title: Mario (franchise) text: released in 1986, but a different game with the same name was released internationally in 1988, followed by "Super Mario Bros. 3" later that same year. The Japanese version would subsequently be released in the United States in 1993 under the title "Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels" as part of the "Super Mario All-Stars" title for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, a console that also features iterations of the game known as "Super Mario World". While "Super Mario Land" and two sequels were the Game Boy installments in the series, the Game Boy Advance did not receive any original