(New) Super Mario Bros.
Predating Super Mario Bros. 35 by more than two decades, this enhanced port of the 1985 classic includes a multiplayer mode that lets players race against each other in real time.
What is Super Mario Bros. Deluxe?
The back of this launch title's box falsely advertises that players can explore 96 levels—the game actually has 96 exits spread across 72 levels.
What is Super Mario World?
Spoiler alert! He was Shadow Mario all along in Super Mario Sunshine. More recently, he helps Mario chase down Fury Shadow Luigi.
Who is Bowser Jr.?
This Nintendo product designer and Super Mario Land series producer conceived Mario's superhuman jumping ability and the idea of hitting enemies from below.
Who is Gunpei Yokoi?
These two items (or perhaps they're one and the same) play the same melody when used in The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. 3, respectively.
What are the Recorder/Whistle/Flute and whistle/Magic Whistle/Warp Whistle?
The Legend of Zelda: It's called the Recorder in the game, the Whistle in the manual, and of course the Flute colloquially.
Super Mario Bros. 3: It's called a whistle in the game, a Magic Whistle in the manual, and a Warp Whistle in the Nintendo Power Strategy Guide.
This arcade platform received a harder version of Super Mario Bros. with new levels that would reappear in The Lost Levels.
What is the Nintendo VS. System?
In 2020, a sealed first-production copy of this Mario game sold for $156,000, breaking the previous record, set earlier that same year, of $114,000 for another game in the series.
What is Super Mario Bros. 3?
(Super Mario Bros. held the record previously)
According to the instruction booklet for Super Mario Bros., "the black magic of the Koopa" has turned the Mushroom People into stones, plants, and these.
What are bricks or Brick Blocks?
Takashi Tezuka served as director for the first time since Yoshi's Island on this speedrun-inspired Mario game whose concept was originally prototyped for the Wii.
What is Super Mario Run?
Developed concurrently, these two games in the Mario and Zelda series run on different versions of the same engine.
What are Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time?
Developed by this company for the PC-88 and X1, Super Mario Bros. Special features 32 all-new levels but uses screen-to-screen transitions instead of side-scrolling.
What is Hudson Soft?
250 Power Moons are required in Super Mario Odyssey to unlock this kingdom that shares its name with a classic rock album.
What is the Dark Side of the Moon?
This Comet Observatory area where Rosalina reads a storybook in Super Mario Galaxy is also the name of an infamous level from a first-person shooter.
What is the Library?
Yōichi Kotabe's first video game task was to animate this object that appears (and disappears) in Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario 64.
What is a magic carpet?
These two releases in the Mario and Zelda series use the same haunting skybox (with minor differences) for levels such as Ghostly Galaxy and the Ghost Ship, respectively.
What are Super Mario Galaxy and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker?
The NES Remix series features the modified ports Speed Mario Bros., which runs at twice the speed, and Super Luigi Bros., which stars the titular brother and applies this change.
What are mirrored levels?
Super Mario 3D Land and Super Mario 3D World have Warp Zones hidden in these two levels—veterans of the series might get the references.
What are World 1-2 and World 4-2?
One of the differences between Super Mario Bros. 2 and Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic is that the latter takes place entirely within one of these.
What are books?
Asked on Twitter to clarify a long-debated voice line from Super Mario 64, Charles Martinet replied, "So long kinga Bowser!"—in later versions, Mario says this instead.
What is "Bye-bye!" or "Buh-bye!"
These two enemies use the same sound effect when they cast and spit projectiles in The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. 2, respectively.
What are Wizzrobes and Birdo?
Fuji TV published this special edition of Super Mario Bros. that replaces various characters and enemies with Japanese celebrities associated with the titular radio program.
What is All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.?
Despite being originally called "Ossan" (which means "middle-aged guy"), Mario is only this many years old, as mentioned by Shigeru Miyamoto to Nintendo Online Monthly.
What is 24 to 25?
(Either is acceptable)
Shigeru Miyamoto stated in Iwata Asks that he thought the previous 3D Mario game had too much storytelling, which is why this one barely has any.
What is Super Mario Galaxy 2?
Captain Lou Albano singing "Do the Mario" wasn't the first vocal over Koji Kondo's classic theme; this 1986 song features fan-submitted lyrics performed by Hiroko Taniyama as Peach.
What is "Go Go Mario!!"
These two entries in the mainline Mario and Zelda series were released on the same day in North America.
What are Super Mario 3D World and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds?