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is an arcade game
Arcade game

An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, typically installed in businesses such as restaurants, public houses, video arcades, and Family Entertainment Centers....
 published and developed by Nintendo
Nintendo

is a global company located in Kyoto, Japan founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....
 in 1983. It was developed by Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto

is a Japanese people video game designer. He created the Mario , Donkey Kong , The Legend of Zelda , F-Zero , Pikmin and Nintendogs franchises for Nintendo game consoles, and mostly works on games as a Game producer....
, the creator of the Mario franchise
Mario (series)

The Mario series is a series of highly popular and acclaimed platform games by Nintendo, featuring Nintendo's mascot Mario and, in many games, his brother Luigi....
. It is a follow-up to Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong (video game)

is an arcade game developed by Nintendo, released in . It is an early example of the Platform game genre, as the gameplay focuses on maneuvering the main character across a series of platforms while dodging obstacles....
 and stars Mario
Mario

is a fictional character in video games, created by Game designer#Video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Serving as Nintendo's mascot, Mario has appeared in List of Mario games by year since his creation....
, a plumber who was previously named "Jumpman". To date, Mario Bros. has been rereleased more than twenty times across more than a dozen platforms. It has been commonly featured as a minigame
Minigame

A minigame, sometimes called a subgame, is a short video game often contained within another video game. A minigame is always smaller or more simplistic than the game in which it is contained....
 in the Super Mario Advance series and other games. Mario Bros. has been rereleased for the Wii
Wii

The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo. As a History of video game consoles console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3....
's Virtual Console
Virtual console

In computing, some operating systems such as UnixWare, Linux and BSD, feature a virtual console ? a conceptual combination of the keyboard and the display for a user interface....
 service in Japan, North America and some PAL region
PAL region

The PAL region is a video game publication territory which covers Australia, New Zealand and varying European countries. Most games designated as part of the region will not play on NTSC-U/C or NTSC-J region consoles because of regional lockout....
s.

In this game, Mario is portrayed as a plumber who, along with his brother Luigi
Luigi

is a video game character created by Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the younger brother of Nintendo's official mascot, Mario. Luigi first appeared in the arcade game Mario Bros., where he was featured as a main character alongside Mario....
, has to defeat creatures that have been coming from the sewers below New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
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is an arcade game
Arcade game

An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, typically installed in businesses such as restaurants, public houses, video arcades, and Family Entertainment Centers....
 published and developed by Nintendo
Nintendo

is a global company located in Kyoto, Japan founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....
 in 1983. It was developed by Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto

is a Japanese people video game designer. He created the Mario , Donkey Kong , The Legend of Zelda , F-Zero , Pikmin and Nintendogs franchises for Nintendo game consoles, and mostly works on games as a Game producer....
, the creator of the Mario franchise
Mario (series)

The Mario series is a series of highly popular and acclaimed platform games by Nintendo, featuring Nintendo's mascot Mario and, in many games, his brother Luigi....
. It is a follow-up to Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong (video game)

is an arcade game developed by Nintendo, released in . It is an early example of the Platform game genre, as the gameplay focuses on maneuvering the main character across a series of platforms while dodging obstacles....
 and stars Mario
Mario

is a fictional character in video games, created by Game designer#Video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Serving as Nintendo's mascot, Mario has appeared in List of Mario games by year since his creation....
, a plumber who was previously named "Jumpman". To date, Mario Bros. has been rereleased more than twenty times across more than a dozen platforms. It has been commonly featured as a minigame
Minigame

A minigame, sometimes called a subgame, is a short video game often contained within another video game. A minigame is always smaller or more simplistic than the game in which it is contained....
 in the Super Mario Advance series and other games. Mario Bros. has been rereleased for the Wii
Wii

The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo. As a History of video game consoles console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3....
's Virtual Console
Virtual console

In computing, some operating systems such as UnixWare, Linux and BSD, feature a virtual console ? a conceptual combination of the keyboard and the display for a user interface....
 service in Japan, North America and some PAL region
PAL region

The PAL region is a video game publication territory which covers Australia, New Zealand and varying European countries. Most games designated as part of the region will not play on NTSC-U/C or NTSC-J region consoles because of regional lockout....
s.

In this game, Mario is portrayed as a plumber who, along with his brother Luigi
Luigi

is a video game character created by Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the younger brother of Nintendo's official mascot, Mario. Luigi first appeared in the arcade game Mario Bros., where he was featured as a main character alongside Mario....
, has to defeat creatures that have been coming from the sewers below New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. The gameplay focuses on Mario having to exterminate pests in the sewers by flipping them on their backs and kicking them away. The original versions of Mario Bros., the arcade
Arcade game

An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, typically installed in businesses such as restaurants, public houses, video arcades, and Family Entertainment Centers....
 version and the Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe and Australia in . In most of Asia, including Japan , the Philippines, China, Vietnam and Singapore, it was released as the ....
 version, received positive reception. In Japan, the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Mario Bros. had sold more than 1.63 million copies.

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