It's only natural that many treated the launch day for Super Mario Maker as a 30th Anniversary celebration for the franchise. It's worth remembering, though, that 13th September 1985 is the day that Super Mario Bros. was released on the Famicom in Japan, as a result beginning its journey to changing the games industry.
From a Western perspective it was the release of the game alongside the NES in North America later that year that set in motion a chain of events that would eventually see the 8-bit console rule that lucrative marketplace, establishing the Super Mario brand in popular culture. That first entry may be relatively primitive compared to successors, particularly the 8-bit Super Mario Bros. 3, with the inability to scroll the screen left and a mix of planned and unplanned glitches. Yet it shouldn't be underestimated how much it was a revelation for home console gaming at that time. Gamers were more accustomed to the bleeps and blips of Atari, and so the NES and its launch title in NA felt distinctly 'next-gen'.
The 2D platforming template established in Super Mario Bros. endures to this day, too, not just in terms of the Mario franchise but in establishing ideas and principles evolved and adopted by many other franchises. The mascot also remains the cornerstone of the Nintendo brand, too, immediately recognisable around the world.
So, if you have some gaming time on this lovely Sunday we'd suggest a little Mario time. Whether that's in Super Mario Maker, the original Super Mario Bros. or one of the many main games and spin-offs in between, it's time to celebrate the face of Nintendo.
What will you play to celebrate this anniversary today?
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Happy Birthday!!!! Somewhere Peach has a cake for you Mario.
My favorite gaming franchise. Thank you, Mario. I love ya.
Lots of love to Mario and friends. Toad is so brilliant.
I'm wearing my lovely yellow Mario tshirt to celebrate
My first systems were DS and Wii, and the New Super Mario Bros games were amazing. I now own all the classic NES Super Mario titles, as well as both 3DS platformers, and an endless amount of side series. It truly is an amazing game series that changed the industry, and I can't imagine my gaming life without him. I still remember how excited I was as a 11-year old during Mario's 25th anniversary, and I'm still just as exicted today. Thank you Mario!
Well I don't own a Wii u. So no Mario maker for me. I will be celebrating with some New super Mario bros 2 on 3ds. After that continue my quest to 100% super Mario world on SNES. I love Mario games! Happy 30th Mario!
Happy Birthday! Thanks for the last 30 years of wonderful memories and times and here's to all those yet to come!
#Mario30th
Happy Birthday Mario... thank you for everything, thank you Nintendo! Keep the games coming
Happy anniversary/birthday Mario!
Happy 30th Birthday Mario!!! And Peach…and Bowser…and Goomba…and Koopa Troopa…and Hammer Bro…and Cheep Cheep…and Blooper…and Buzzy Beetle…and Spiny…and Lakitu…and Brick Block…and Question Mark Block…and Luigi...
Happy birthday, Mario!!!!!
@Captain_Gonru you need to use all the new items and lots of blocks to speed up delivery just so you know.
Happy Birthday Mario
I'll Celebrate By…
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… sending the Nintendo Official Store UK a complaint about how my copy of Super Mario Maker STILL hasn't arrived.
Pretty peeved to be entirely honest.
Happy Bday Mario
Hey, two days after my birthday! So close to being the same date lol. Happy birthday Mario!
When I got my first Mario game, I liked it so much that at school I wrote my name on all of my assignments as "Mario".
Happy Birthday Mario!
@ChessboardMan Mine either! Yodel said they tried and left a card, but that's a complete lie, someone was in all day and we received nothing!
I'm celebrating by playing the original game on my 3DS VC. Happy Anniversary, Mario!
@Captain_Gonru should do. I'm sure i've just turned it off for a while and turned it back on and stuff has come that way too. Seems it's been different for lots if people. Hmmm...
Is mario B-day and not a sale on eShop, well done NoA, well done.
Don't just congratulate Mario! It's the 30th anniversary of the Super Mario BROTHERS!
Congrats Luigi!
Congrats and thank you to all who work on these games! You have brought my family and I much joy over the years! And....wait a minute...that means I'm turning 30 this year...sigh.
My favorite platform series of all time!
I have gotten nearly all the Super Mario Bros games including the 3D ones. The only games that I have to get are New Super Mario Bros U, Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario Maker, Super Mario World 2 and Super Mario Bros 2 as well as lost levels.
Thank you for making this wonderful franchise Nintendo.
"...and a mix of planned and unplanned glitches."
Interesting. I'd like to hear more about which glitches were planned and which were unplanned. Can you make this happen NL?
Congrats thanks for the awesome memories, super mario bros and duck hunt were the very first games I ever played!
I still remember playing super Mario bros 2 in a little dish and chips shop years ago. Great franchise! Good job Nintendo and Happy Birthday you little legendary plumber!
Some of the greatest games ever made. I've had plenty of great memories from playing Mario games over the years, and I'm sure there will be many more to come.
Yeah Mario's birthday ! I randomly found that on tinternet, Christopher Nolan meet Mario, it's pretty cool !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsVgP_tYQMI&feature=youtu.be
Happy birthday, Super Mario Bros.!!!
Congrats Mario, old pal!
Guess Mario's next game is midlife crisis mario management. Scale down on goomba resources for savings in the anti protagonist department, while wondering how the love of your life made out with your brother and your nemesis, got knocked up by him, spawning bowser jr in the process.
It's gonna be turn based, boring and stale, while the peach saga was, of course, too adult for the masses to screen. It's leaked online somewhere though.
The game's gonna feature lots of new power ups, like car lease contracts, hair dye medication and blue round pills.
You heard it here first people!
Congratulations Mario!
But your anniversary cake is in another castle...
Just kidding! XD
Happy 30th anniversary, and more years to come
@Captain_Gonru Once it tells you that s new delivery will be coming, place one of every new item, then spam blocks. Like, fill the screen with them. You can get everything in less than an hour that way.
@Crimson_Ridley They haven't even attempted to deliver mine yet. They're been steadfast in their estimate of Monday so far. Of course, Monday is going to be an awkward delivery day for me, as I'm out for most of it.
Either way, I'm going to be spending this Mario Anniversary writing out a Complaint to Nintendo.
It's still as much fun today as it was 30 years ago. It's just such a genuine, wholehearted gaming experience (unless you're talking the subsequent remake that totally ruined the platforming physics). I'll gladly complete it for the 108th time in its honor. Let's, uhh, go.
@Takerkaneanite6 you seriously thought this was a funny enough joke to post it here too? ._.
@Solid_Stannis Not a joke. I was being serious. Those characters also turned 30 today. Sure, Luigi existed 2 years prior, but the point remains.
First Super Mario memory (had memories of Mario already in prior games including Donkey Kong- though he was called Jumpman at the time, DK Jr., and Mario Bros). was the Vs. arcade game at a local miniature golf place. My jaw dropped some months later when the NES was released here and SMB was identical to the arcade game as far as I could tell. Living in an era where console ports were hardware-limited pale imitations to their coin-op originals, it was astounding to see such a close match between arcade and console. This system was immediately put on my Christmas wish list. My parents could only afford the base system, but we saw what happened to the gimmick-y R.O.B. so though slightly disappointed at the time, it turned out to not really matter. We picked up the light gun later of course in all of its grey glory before N was forced to turn it orange.
It wouldn't be until I purchased a Gamecube that I owned a Nintendo system again- I had already favored Genesis and TurboGrafx-16 during the SNES days and when the N64 rolled out I couldn't afford a new gaming system though a friend let me borrow his for awhile. I also skipped the Wii, but was pleased that the Wii U would also play Wii games, so now I have Galaxy, Galaxy 2, Skyward Sword, and some others to go with my small Wii U collection.
Happy birthday Mario!
I spent today playing Mario Maker. Nothing better than celebrating his 30th by creating Mario levels!
Happy Anniversary Mario and Luigi!!!!
I've been really enjoying Mario Maker , JUST AN AMAZING TITLE ! , Thanks Nintendo for an AWESOME job .., Mario is the reason I am a gamer to this day I was ten years old when I first met Nintendo's soon to become ICONIC PLUMBER . Thanks for all the awesome gaming sessions through the years , of all the different types of games I play there is to this day something i notice when i play a Mario title that happens everytime i play a Mario title I get a smile on my face .
Here to 30 Years, i still to this day play Mario games, from N64 years to Present, i do say that the 3d mario games blow my mind away, then the 2d games did, but i liked both games, (even if there challenging at the end)
It's the anniversary of Super Mario Brothers, and yet the brother is an unlock available only in one visual/play style.
Here's to 30 years of Toad, thirty years of Peach, thirty years of Bowser, (arguably) 30 years of Koopas, and, not to mention, 30 years of Goombas!
"Sir, the Goombas are dancing again!"
@ChessboardMan That happened to me, they didn't even get back to me so I just downloaded and cancelled my order, I always wanted the game as a DL, but wanted the tshirt amiibo combo. Pretty annoyed as they've always been great for me before.
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