Other 'secret', often invisible, bricks may contain more coins or rare items. The game world includes coins for Mario to collect and special bricks marked with a question mark ( ?), which when hit from below by Mario may reveal more coins or a special item. : 7 The game is a side-scrolling platform game the player moves to the right to reach the flagpole at the end of each level. The objective is to race through the Mushroom Kingdom, survive the main antagonist Bowser's forces, and save Princess Toadstool. Mario's younger brother, Luigi, is controlled by the second player in the game's multiplayer mode and assumes the same plot role and functionality as Mario. In Super Mario Bros., the player controls Mario, the protagonist of the series. Mario wields a Fire Flower, allowing attacks with fire projectiles. have become prominent in popular culture. It has been rereleased on most Nintendo systems. The game began a multimedia franchise including a long-running game series, an animated television series and a feature film. Koji Kondo's soundtrack is one of the earliest and most popular in video games, making music into a centerpiece of game design. It is credited alongside the NES as one of the key factors in reviving the video game industry after the 1983 crash, and helped popularize the side-scrolling platform game genre. It is one of the best-selling games of all time, with more than 50 million copies sold worldwide. is frequently cited as one of the greatest video games of all time, with praise for its precise controls. The design of the first level, World 1-1, serves as a tutorial for platform gameplay. The game was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka as 'a grand culmination' of the Famicom team's three years of game mechanics and programming, drawing from their experiences working on Devil World and the side-scrollers Excitebike and Kung Fu to advance their previous work on platforming ' athletic games' such as Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. They traverse side-scrolling stages while avoiding hazards such as enemies and pits with the aid of power-ups such as the Super Mushroom, Fire Flower and Starman. Players control Mario, or his brother Luigi in the multiplayer mode, as they travel the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue Princess Toadstool from Bowser (King Koopa).

The NES version received a wide release in North America that year and in PAL regions in 1987. Following a limited US release for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), it was ported to international arcades for the Nintendo Vs. and the first in the Super Mario series, it was released in 1985 for the Famicom in Japan. The successor to the 1983 arcade game Mario Bros. is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo.

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