40 years of Super Mario Bros

[BLUEVOODU]

2025 marks 40 years of Super Mario Bros.   Holy crap. Where did the time go?

I don't know about many others, but I had the pleasure of playing Super Mario Bros for the 1st time in the arcade. I post up on this in the What was your 1st Arcade Experience? topic in Arcade

The following Mario website is really hammering into the 40 years of SMB:
https://mario.nintendo.com/

There also a Super Mario Galaxy movie coming April 2026 - this is in collaboration with Illumination. Im a fan of several Illumination movies. 

What are your best Super Mario Bros memories and stories? 

Post it up!

[retro junkie]

I have played that first Mario game maybe once or twice and it wasn't at an arcade. I had a family before I got into my first Mario game which was Super Mario World. That was the good ole days when they gave a pack-in. My first game console was the Sega Genesis. The Commodore 64 don't count.

[mastermario]

I enjoyed playing through Super Mario World and Super Mario All-Stars on the school bus on my Game Boy Advanced haha.

I also remember being shocked at those amazing Mario 64 graphics.

[BLUEVOODU]

I remember playing Mario Bros 2 .... and there was this one scene where the waterfall takes up the entire screen.  I was sick LOL... and ended up throwing up.  Not sure if it was the motion on the screen... which I normally do not get motion sick.

That was a lasting memory

[retro junkie]

My first time playing Super Mario Bros was on the SNES. It was the "Super Mario All-Stars." It would be a ton of years later with the Advent of the abundant availability of clone consoles before I actually acquired the original games. At that point I started getting into 8bit gaming.

[targetrasp]

I got super Mario Bros with the NES in 1986 or 87, for a birthday or Christmas. I was 5 or 6 years old. I've played every main line SMB game as they've come out and a ton of the offshoots; always favorites at time of release. Top 10 franchise in my opinion. Very likely my gateway drug into video games, and why I'm still a junkie.

[BLUEVOODU]

My first time playing Super Mario Bros was on the SNES. It was the "Super Mario All-Stars." It would be a ton of years later with the Advent of the abundant availability of clone consoles before I actually acquired the original games. At that point I started getting into 8bit gaming.

You get to play Super Mario Bros back in the arcade at all?

I got super Mario Bros with the NES in 1986 or 87, for a birthday or Christmas. I was 5 or 6 years old. I've played every main line SMB game as they've come out and a ton of the offshoots; always favorites at time of release. Top 10 franchise in my opinion. Very likely my gateway drug into video games, and why I'm still a junkie.

Man... this sounds about right LOL.  I think Nintendo knew what kind of gateway drug they were peddling as well.  These kids... are going to be hooked!! 

[retro junkie]

You get to play Super Mario Bros back in the arcade at all?

Never was in a local arcade....

[BLUEVOODU]

You get to play Super Mario Bros back in the arcade at all?

Never was in a local arcade....

These word... in a sentence... they don't make sense.  Never?

[retro junkie]

These word... in a sentence... they don't make sense.  Never?

In what way does "never" not make sense? The Mario game was never in any local arcade. Never as in "not here." Never as in "absent." Small Town "never" knew there was such a game, until home consoles.

The local Dairy Queen had a small back room with arcade machines at one point. And there was the struggle to have an arcade in the local mall. It would be there for a while then close, reopen, then close, reopen then close. Every time it would open it had a different name. The last time it opened it stayed the longest. That was when it had all the fighting games, point and shoot games, racing games, etc. It was the hey day of arcades. But, the Mario game? Never was in a local arcade......................

[BLUEVOODU]

I got ya @retro junkie i was more kidding based off your words of "never was in a local arcade."    While I knew what you meant, it also sounds like you were never in a local arcade. I was kidding with you