Mario might be one of the most successful video games around – and the new movie is breaking box-office records – but there are still plenty of people out there who’ve never played one of his games. Here’s everything a beginner needs to know
Bros film has broken a long-established trend of lacklustre video game tie-in movies by becoming a vast success. Zooming past the $500m mark in nine days, it has smashed box office records for animated films and it’s also the highest grossing film of 2023 so far.
Donkey Kong laid down the foundations of the platforming game genre – ladders, platforms and jumping – and in 1983, Miyamoto began working on a follow-up. He changed the name of the lead character to Mario – inspired by Nintendo of America’s New York landlord, Mario Segale. Originally released as an arcade game, Mario Bros, saw the eponymous character and his near-identical sibling Luigi clearing the Manhattan sewer system of invading turtles.
Released on the venerable Nintendo Entertainment System, the Super Mario Bros games are among the most famous and successful video games of all time. The first games sold almost 60m copies, making Mario more recognisable to American children than Mickey Mouse in the 90s. With the arrival of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System console in 1990 came the more ambitious and advanced Super Mario World titles, with beautiful pixel art and a navigable map allowing different routes through the story.
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