The Super Mario Bros. is such a popular game series that even your grandparents might have played some of its games. Making his debut appearance as "Jumpman" in the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong, It wouldn't be until the release of Super Mario Bros (1985), that would set the red plumber towards international success. It is now considered to be Nintendo's 🍌landmark series with nearly 600 million sales. While the majority of the series' games are aimed at the general public, some of its contents remain somewhat disturbing for the younger audience.
As such, we will take a look at weird things that you might not have noticed in the Super Mario Bros' series. Mario definitely has a lot of secrets that fans don't know. Nintendo hasn't kept the famous plumber as wholesome or normal as you might expect. Between cul꧋tural differences, and the march of time, there's no denying how creepy and bizarre some of the plumber's exploits look in a modern context.
18 ♔ Just How Many People Has Mario Destroyed?
Ok, so Mario may not be represented as an assassin, as in Assassin's Creed II, but that doesn't mean that he's a clean guy in his world neither. In fact, Mario's body count may be the most out of any character in✅ the video game franchise.
The Super Mario Bros' explains that the Koopas conquered the peaceful Mushroom Kingdom and turned its inhabitants into stones and bricks, mostly. In other words, every time Mario is breaking a block, he's destroying one person. Amount it to the number of games he's featured in within the Mushroom Kingdom (Super Mario Bros., Super Mario 64, etc.), and you got a rather dark number.
17 ꦓ ও Secret Levels In Super Mario Bros.?
Whether you've finished Super Mario Bros. or not, every gamer will mostly notice the level's design that is easily a visual landmark in the Super Mario series. What gamers don't know is that other levels are "hidden" in Super Mario Bros.
These secret worlds are glitch levels that the player can access in multiple ways. The most known way to acce🍌ss it would be to perform a crouch back jump a🎃t the last pipe of the 1-2 level. By doing it, the player will be able to walk through the wall and access the warp room. If the player takes the only visible pipe, then they'll end up in the rumored glitch level. Commonly named the "Minus World," there's not much to do here, except swimming underwater endlessly, while observing the different glitches in the level. Fortunately, the glitch is still present in the Virtual Console on Wii, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. Give it a try!
16 Superhuman Mario Bros. Or Different Spe🎃cies Mario Bros.?
Super Mario Odyssey may be a success, but it is the first game that raises questions about Mario's place in the human world. First, it is the first game that features regular humans, most commonly known as New Donkers. Though series creator Shigeru Miyamoto has said many times that Mario was human, we still find It questionable that he doesn't share the same physica🔯l traits as the New Donkers.
Mario seems very🉐 small and more cartoonish than the New Donkers; h✤e physically looks like a middle-aged man (though he's only 24 years old) and his vocabulary is very limited. On the other side, Mario's physical level surpasses any Olympic athletes. Whether to consider Mario a superhuman or not, is definitely up for debate.
15 ♕ Is Mario's Relationship With Yoshi Roc♕ky?
It's only right to say that Yoshi is Mario's most trusted companion. Mainly serving as Mario's mounted dinosaur, Yoshi also saved Baby Mario a few times, in his Yoshi's Island series. With that much history,ꦏ It's only right for players to assume that Yoshi will forever be Mario's "BFF." Unfortunately, It hasn't always been the case.
While Yoshi is featured as a playable character in Super Mario 64 DS, Yoshi makes a cowardly appearance in its original Nintendo 64 version. If players manage to get the 120 stars and defeat Bowser, they will unlock a cannon outside of Peach's castle. Should they propel Mario to the top right side of the ca🐼stle, they'd see Yoshi walking around. Though he greets you with a special message from the staff team and 100 extra lives, we still can't forgive him for not assisting Mario at the very beginning of the game!
14 Luigi Was Once Contracted By Dr🐽acula ಌ
Part-time plumber and Part-time ghostbuster, we sometimes feel that Luigi is not properly credited. After all, he helped Mario save the kingdom a few times, and he even rescued him on manꦇy occasions. Despite that, It seems that Luigi's will forever be second to Mario, a position that also lands him with the worst contracts of the plumbing company.
In Castlevania: Lord of Shadows - Mirror of Fate, there is a Luigi easter egg that can be found in the castle's sewers. In the note, Luigi is disgusted by the look of the gutters and even describes the decaying way of the castle's pipe as something that "would perturb even my dear brother Mario." There is also a clin d'oeil to t🅠he powered mushroom from Mario, in which Luigi is curious to try them. We hope you'll make the right decision, Luigi.
13 🥀 Mario Wasn't Always A Good Guy
Mario first appeared in the arcade game Donkey Kong. Initially referred to as Jumpman, Mario must save his girlfriend Pauline from the hands of his ape pet Donkey Kong. Though the player casts Mario as a hero, the backstory of the game is entirely the opposite. It is revealed that DK was motivated to kidnap Pauline as revenge for being mistreated by his master. Mario deserved this sit💞uation, and yet, we helped him without﷽ even questioning his intentions.
Following the events of Donkey Kong, Mario is officially introduced as a villain in the sequel, Donkey Kong Jr. Having locked Donkey Kong in a cage, Mario must be defeated by the new prota🔴gonist, Donkey Kong Jr, to complete the game. While we prefer to have Mario on our side, we sure ho🅺pe players would think twice about helping Mario in his next game.
12 🍃 Super Mario Bros. 3 🦋Was Just A Play
Despite the popularity of the original Super Mario Bros., retro Mario Bros. fans would consider Super Mario Bros. 3 as the best entry in the series. The gameplay and presentation are simply an enriched version of the previous Super Mario games at the time.
What's most surprising is that Super Mario Bros. 3 is not even a "game," itself. From the game's intro to the object's shadows, many fans theorized that the game was simply a stage play instead of a full-fledged adventure. It would take more than three decades for , while promoting Super Mario Maker, in 2015. Quite the idea, Nintendo! If all theatre was this en🎀tertaining, we'd never leave the playhouse.
11 Using His Fist For Fury 🍰
Whether it was the original Super Mario Bros. or Super Mario 64, we've always had the impression t𝔍hat Mario was knocking the blocks with his strong head, due to the game's🌜 emphasis on jumping.
During a , Super Mario series creator Shigeru Miyamoto took time to answer a few myth🌊s about Mario. When he w🀅as asked If Mario was breaking the blocks with his fists, Miyamoto confirmed by putting his fist in an arc position.
10 ꧙ Super Mario Bros. Was ﷽Initially Supposed To Be The NES' Last Game
The mid-80s were a dark period for the video game industry, due to the 1983 video game crash. Partially because of the saturation of the entertainment system, many video game companies had to close shop. Miraculously, Nintendo emerged as the leader in the video game industry with the NES being the most popular console. What people often don't know is that Super Mario Bros. was in🍎itially supposed to be the last ꦓmajor NES title.
Nintendo was already on the verge of replacing the NES with the Famicom Disk System. The game was supposed to be the last title that would showcase the power of the console. Instead, Super Mario Bros. became one of the most successful games in video gam🐭e history, with more than 40 million sales, and It helped popularize the 2D side-scroller genre. Talk about luck.
9 𝓀 You Could Return To ♐Where You Died In Super Mario Bros.
Except for a few titles, most NES games weren't able to save their progress. Though most games would be short to complete, It was still frustrating for players to lose their progress, after a game over. The original Super Mario Bros. was no exception to the rule; only skill⭕ed players were exempted from it.
However, it is possible for players to resume their game back to where they♋ initially died.
If players were to press the A button plus Start button after the game over screen, the game would revert t✨o the stage they died along with three lives.