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Nintendo Year: 1983 Class: Wide Release Genre: Platform Type: Videogame Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 2 Maximum number of Players: 2 Gameplay: Either Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player Controls:
Sound: Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp) |
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Mario Bros. DescriptionTurtles, crabs, and flies come pouring out of the waterworks. Hit the floor beneath them to flip them over, then kick them into the water. Collect coins for bonus points.Know anything more about this game? Cabinet InformationThe game was originally released in the dedicated wide-body cabinet seen above. Many later games were built as conversions, often using other Nintendo cabinets like the orange Donkey Kong Junior cabinet shown on the right.ConversionThe conversion kit came with the control panel assembly, front plexiglass, marquee, sideart, hardware to re-orient the monitor, the PCB and the wiring harnesses. It was designed to quickly convert Donkey Kong and similar Nintendo series cabinets.Game IntroductionMario Mario and Luigi Mario (the Mario Brothers) must try to get rid of Shellcreepers (turtles), Sidesteppers (crabs) (need to be hit twice), and Fighterflies (flies)(can only be defeated while they touch the platform) who come pouring out of the waterworks.Hit the floor beneath them to flip them over, then kick them into the water. Collect coins for bonus.Later, the Slipice will come out and freeze the platforms making your traction very poor. As the game progresses water drops hang below the platforms and freeze into deadly icicles which fall soon after. Keep track of the green fireballs as they will appear more frequenly. The red fireball can also be a menace. If you have to you can hit the fireballs from below when they touch the platform. Beware of hitting the red fireball. It rapidly reappears and moves much faster. Hit the POW platform to knock over your enemies and destroy fireballs. Be wise, you only get three per level. Each difficulty level begins with three POW's and a bonus wave which coins are collected Game PlayThe first player controls Mario (blue) and the second player controls Luigi (green). You can either work together to kill all the opponents, or compete by putting the other player in a position to be killed.Hacks
MiscellaneousPlay a JAVA emulated version of the game by visiting http://web.utanet.at/nkehrer/JMario.htmlScarcity in collections (VAPS.org)Very Common - There are 133 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 84 of them are original dedicated machines, 18 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 31 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.Of the 52,045 video games (3,349 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 52 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records. - There are 15 VAPS members currently looking for this game. Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range. TriviaThe idea that this game would be for two players did not come about until Shigeru Miyamoto was inspired by Williams' Joust.The name for Mario's brother, Luigi, who is introduced in this game, came from a pizza parlor nearby the then-new Redmond, Washington headquarters of Nintendo of America called "Mario and Luigi's." eBay ListingsClick here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for the Mario Bros. Videogame machine and items related to it.Click here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for machines and parts made by Nintendo. Alternatively, check out the IAM/KLOV custom report of the hottest coin-op machines on eBay, powered by Ace.com (updated throughoutthe day).
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