Mario Bros. (Atari 2600, Atari 5200)
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Before Nintendo and Super Mario Bros. took over there world, there was Atari and Mario Bros. Of course, Nintendo still made the original arcade game but it was popular on Atari (and other) systems of the time more so than the NES. It was of course released for the NES also but by the time the NES gained popularity, the original Super Mario Bros. had the far better Super Mario Bros. to contend with.
Like Super Mario Brothers, Mario Brothers also feature the Italian plumber duo, Mario and Luigi. Even the turtles and pipes will look familiar. However, whereas Super Mario Bros. was a side-scrolling game with many varied levels, the original Mario Bros. was played on a single screen at a time on levels that really didn't vary all that much.
Atari 2600
That isn't to say that Mario Brothers isn't any fun. It's a lot of fun in the way that many classic arcade games are. It's just that you aren't likely to spend nearly as much time in one sitting playing it as its sequels.
In the original Mario Bros., the goals are a bit simpler. There is no princess to rescue but just turtles and crabs and flies to knock over and kick. You must first jump up and hit below where they are standing to knock them over then you have a limited amount of time to kick them off of the platform before they right themselves. This game introduced Luigi and when playing two-players, it is a competition to see who can collect the requisite number of coins first.
Atari 5200
The ad and screenshots above are for the Atari versions of the game but it was released on a number of other contemporary platforms and more recently for the Wii, Wii U and Nintendo Switch so there are modern ways to play it as well. It's a fun game worth playing, just don't expect Super Mario level of quality here.
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I really liked that game. Yeah, it was small, but it was still a lot of fun. You usually played through the screen like once or twice per sitting. So yeah, nowhere near as much time. I never paid attention to score tho.
Tbh this is my damn favourite game! The home console ports are kind of bad imo. Last year I picked up one of those 150 games in one NES cart and the Mario Bros version in it is the actual arcade coin-op version and it's so good. I've played it for countless hours since.
The only version I ever played was the Commodore 64 version. I thought it was pretty good at the time and I've always liked it better than Donkey Kong.