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Koji Kondo (Japanese: 近藤 浩治, Hepburn: Kondō Kōji, born August 13, 1961) is a Japanese composer and senior executive at the video game company Nintendo.He is best known for his contributions for the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series, with his Super Mario Bros. theme being the first piece of music from a video game included in the American National Recording Registry.
The player controls Mario, Luigi, and their friends as they attempt to stop Bowser, who plots to take over a new land known as the Flower Kingdom after using the magical Wonder Flower to fuse himself with the kingdom's castle. Development for Super Mario Bros. Wonder began in 2019, with director Shiro Mouri taking inspiration from the original ...
While working on Excitebike and Kung Fu, he came up with the concept of a platformer that would have the player "strategize while scrolling sideways" over long distances, have aboveground and underground levels, and have colorful backgrounds rather than black backgrounds. [14] Super Mario Bros. used the fast scrolling game engine Miyamoto's ...
The phrase originated in Super Mario Bros. (1985). "Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!" is a quote from the 1985 video game Super Mario Bros. It is stated by a Toad after Mario defeats what appears to be the game's main villain Bowser.
Super Mario Bros. sold more than 50 million units worldwide sold across multiple platforms by 1996. [157] The original NES version sold 40.23 million units and is the best-selling NES game, with its two sequels, Super Mario Bros. 3 (18 million copies) and Super Mario Bros. 2 (10 million copies), ranking in second and third place respectively. [99]
New Super Mario Bros. is the first original 2D platform game to feature Mario since Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins in 1992. New Super Mario Bros. was available for play at E3 in 2005. The game's designers were given much more freedom with designs in New Super Mario Bros. compared to previous 2D Mario games. Characters, enemies, and objects ...
The Super Mario Bros. theme, officially known as the "Ground Theme" [a] [1] [2] is a musical theme originally heard in the first stage of the 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game Super Mario Bros.
Mario Bros. [a] is a 1983 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for arcades.It was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi, Nintendo's chief engineer.Italian twin brother plumbers Mario and Luigi exterminate turtle-like creatures and crabs emerging from the sewers by knocking them upside-down and kicking them away.