A lifelong fan's game-by-game retrospective on the Super Mario series!
“THANK YOU MARIO!
BUT OUR PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE!”
- Mushroom Retainer
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| Warning: this article is gonna be a LONG one |
The Facts
Release Date: September 13, 1985 (Japan), Unknown for certain but possibly October 18, 1985 (North America)
Original Platform: Famicon (Japan), Nintendo Entertainment System (North America)
Director: Shigeru Miyamoto
Producer: Shigeru Miyamoto
Buongiorno, and welcome to a little project I call "Super Mario Forever!"
My goal is to play through and blog about every single entry in the Super Mario series over the next few months, hopefully finishing in time for the April 2023 release of Illumination's Super Mario Bros. movie.
I hope to provide lots of nerdy background information on each game, as well as providing context for not only the games themselves, but my relationship and experiences with each one.
I'm gonna start this with 1985's Super Mario Bros. on October 13, because I wanted to begin on the 37th anniversary of the franchise...unfortunately, I'd forgotten that the game was released on SEPTEMBER 13, 1985. My bad.
A game with truly universal appeal “ Do you hear the baby stars? These newborns will grow up to become galaxies someday. When stars die, t...
