Super Mario Bros.
It's from 1985, before you were born.
- Developer
- Nintendo
- Genre
- Platformer
- Debut platform
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Designer
- Shigeru Miyamoto
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About
As of 2026, it's 41 years old.
Super Mario Bros. didn't just save the home console — it more or less performed CPR on the entire industry after the 1983 crash, then handed everyone a blueprint for what a video game should feel like. A plumber, some mushrooms, a princess in a string of incorrect castles: somehow, magic.
Released in 1985, its tight controls and secret-stuffed levels made it the game that taught the world to love jumping, stomping, and the deeply suspicious idea that eating a mushroom makes you bigger.
Joyful, endlessly replayable, and the foundation of modern gaming, Super Mario Bros. is the reason an Italian plumber is more recognizable than most heads of state.
