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The first ever print ad for the "Nintendo Entertainment System"
Super Mario. It's a name that many people can easily recognize the second they hear it. A lot of people got their start with Mario with Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Entertainment System. This was at a time where video games were definitely not as big as they were today, as the infamous Video Game Crash of 1983-1984 just happened prior to the game's release. The market still reeked of buggy, unfinished products, such as the Atari 2600 versions of E.T. and Pac-Man. There wasn't a single company who wanted anything to do with home video games anymore in the Americas. Until, in 1985, just a few short years after the crash, a company rose and advertised their new "toy", the Nintendo …show more content…

1 and 3, and just made it 10x better. It brought in Yoshi, your dino pal who you can ride on and eat enemies with, only to betray by throwing him in a pit for a boost when you jump. Again, the game came bundled with every Super Nintendo, just like Mario 1 came bundled with every NES, because Nintendo wanted to show the capabilities and quality of the SNES from the get-go. Nowadays, a lot of people I know call it their favorite 2D Mario game, and some even call it their favorite Mario game. Some even call it their favorite video game. It truly did a number on consumers, as the game made the SNES just as high in demand by children at Christmas time as the NES …show more content…

Nintendo moved onto the 3D era of Mario. Super Mario 64 released with their new system, some 6 years after the Super Nintendo was released. We didn't get anything that was a 2D Mario game for a while. We got re-releases of previous Mario games, such as Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario USA, and Super Mario World, all on the Gameboy Advance. But, we finally got something in the year 2006.

"New Super Mario Bros." came out for the Nintendo DS system in 2006. At the time of writing this, 2006 was 11 years ago, so we wouldn't call it very "New" anymore. But, that's besides the point, because this game sold nearly 1,000,000 units in Japan alone. IN THE FIRST FOUR DAYS. Clearly, this was something people didn't know they wanted. Except, some people did know they wanted it? I don't know, but this wasn't the first Mario game on a Nintendo

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