“Since we already have the game code, why don’t we make our own bootleg first? That way everyone will think there’s no point ripping us off because we’ve already done it ourselves.” Then, Shigeru Miyamoto came up with an idea. If the market became saturated by Mario clones, that would dilute the quality of the Famicom’s software library. Super Mario Bros was such a massive success in Japan that Nintendo feared the inevitable copycat games would follow. Super Mario Bros 2 (the fake one) (Famicom Disk System, 1986) Little did they realise that on the other side of the world, Super Mario Bros had just launched in Japan and what they were feeling was a future echo of the shockwave it would cause.Įveryone at the show was so terrified by this rare glimpse of fate that they all agreed never to speak of it again, which is why the tremor is never mentioned in official reports of the event. At a star-studded show at Radio City Music Hall in New York, Don Henley picked up the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year for The Boys of Summer (which, to be fair, is an absolute belter of a song).Īs he stepped onto the stage to collect his award, however, a small tremor shook, surprising those in attendance. On 13 September 1985 the world as we know it changed. After all, everything here happened in real life, and real life has swearing in it sometimes. A warning in advance: keep this article away from the kids because it’s got swearing in it. Here’s the real story of the Super Mario series. The TRUE story, not the inaccurate tales you read online.įriends, I’m happy to oblige. Instead, on the Tired Old Hack Discord server a few days ago the lovely MartynStuff gave me a request: be the man who finally tells the REAL story about the history of Mario games.

I’ve spoken at great length about what Super Mario Bros means to me (long story short: without that game my life, career and future would have been completely different), so I won’t bore you with the story again. Today marks the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros, one of the most iconic and influential video games ever made.

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