While side-scrolling games in the vein of Super Mario Bros. are possible on the system ( 1990's Scrapyard Dog is the best example ), it is significantly harder to develop such a title than on a tile-based system such as the Nintendo Entertainment System.

He played another villain, King Koopa, in Super Mario Bros. ( 1993 ).

The game would later be a pack-in game, being a dual game pack with this game and Super Mario Bros., and later a triple game with the same two games plus World Class Track Meet.

In the Action Set configuration of the NES in the late 1980s, Duck Hunt was included with Super Mario Bros ..

A Power Set was also available, which included the Action Set, the Power Pad and a 3-in-1 cartridge that included Duck Hunt, World Class Track Meet and Super Mario Bros.

Other games which feature graffiti include Bomb the World ( 2004 ), an online graffiti simulation created by graffiti artist Klark Kent where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide, and Super Mario Sunshine ( 2002 ), in which the hero, Mario must clean the city of graffiti left by the villain, Bowser Jr. in a plotline which evokes the successes of the Anti-Graffiti Task Force of New York's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ( a manifestation of " broken window theory ") or those of the " Graffiti Blasters " of Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Upon making this breakthrough, Carmack and Hall stayed up late into the night making a replica of the first level of the popular 1988 NES game Super Mario Bros. 3, inserting stock graphics of Romero's Dangerous Dave character in lieu of Mario.

When Romero saw the demo, entitled " Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement ", he realized that Carmack's breakthrough could have potential, the team that would later form Id Software immediately began moonlighting, going so far as to " borrow " company computers that were not being used over the weekends and at nights while they designed their own remake of Super Mario Bros. 3.

In the Super Mario Bros. video game series, the character, Morton Koopa, Jr. was named after him.

* A playable character in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, a 1996 adventure / console role-playing game

* Super Mario Kart ( 1992, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Virtual Console )

* Mario Kart: Super Circuit ( 2001, Game Boy Advance, 3DS Virtual Console )

Several Mario Kart-related items appear in the Super Smash Bros. series, with Super Smash Bros. Brawl in particular featuring a stage based on one of Mario Kart DS < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > courses.

* A golden rabbit found in Super Mario 64.

In a January 2000 poll of readers of Computer and Video Games magazine, it appeared in 15th place in a list of the " 100 greatest games " ( directly behind Super Mario 64 ).

In 2012, Cruz appeared in the first ever Nintendo commercial to promote New Super Mario Bros. 2 and the Nintendo 3DS XL in which she played the role of Mario in the ad.

Birdo was originally intended to be a male who pretended to be a female in Super Mario Bros. 2.

Super Mario Kart was re-released on the Wii's Virtual Console in Japan on June 9, 2009, North America on November 23, 2009, and in Europe on April 2, 2010.

* Super Mario Galaxy, a 2007 3D platforming video game for the Nintendo Wii

* Super Mario Galaxy 2, a 2010 3D platforming video game sequel for the Nintendo Wii

* Chico, a Japanese name for the Luma species in the Super Mario Galaxy series.

Mario in combat with Koopas and Paratroopas in Super Mario World, having knocked the wings off one of the latter. In 1990's Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Koopa Troopa's design was changed slightly, as it was given shoes according to the colour of its shell and made bipedal, and although quadrupedal Koopas would be seen in Super Mario Land ( albeit as " Bombshell Koopas "-which were similar to Koopa Troopas except their shells exploded ) and its sequel, they would not be seen again until 2007's Super Mario Galaxy and its sequel, with bipedal Koopas remaining the most common design throughout the series.

In other games, eating fruit changes a Yoshi's colour and provides an ability ; Yoshis in Super Mario Sunshine can spit fruit juice to defeat enemies and create platforms, while those in Super Mario Galaxy 2 can use fruit to gain super speed, inflate like a balloon, or produce a platform-enabling glow.

In Super Mario World, Super Mario Sunshine, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Super Mario Galaxy 2, bongos ( or other appropriate percussion instrument ) are added to the level's background music whenever a player rides Yoshi.

Yoshi also appears in the game Super Mario Galaxy 2, where he can also float across the air for a limited period of time by fluttering his feet at an amazing speed.

Yoshi was also intended to appear in the original Super Mario Galaxy but was removed because, according to Satoru Iwata in an Iwata Asks session, it would be " too much all at once.

In Super Mario Galaxy, an image of his head appears as a wooden planet that Mario can visit in the Space Junk Galaxy.

Gametrailers has created a special tribute video for Yoshi for the release of Super Mario Galaxy 2.

In Super Mario Galaxy, Peach's castle was lifted into space by Bowser, who wanted Peach to rule the universe by his side.

In Super Mario Galaxy 2 Peach gets kidnapped by Giant Bowser and Mario has to save her by going through different galaxies once again.

She is also in Super Mario Galaxy 2 when Bowser kidnaps her and puts her in the center of the universe.

Mario and Peach then get the Grand Star, before the Comet Observatory from the first Super Mario Galaxy shows up, and Rosalina is heard thanking Mario for watching over the Luma that he had found.

Bowser appears in the sequel Super Mario Galaxy 2, once again as the main villain.

Super Mario Kart features eight playable characters from the Mario series – Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Bowser, Donkey Kong Jr., Koopa Troopa and Toad.

Mario Kart: Super Circuit screenshot with ( L-R ) Bowser ( character ) | Bowser, Yoshi, Donkey Kong ( character ) | DK and Wario on Peach Circuit

Peach first appeared in Super Mario Bros. and has been kidnapped by the series ' main antagonist, Bowser, many times since.

In Super Mario World, Mario, Luigi and Peach were having a vacation in Dinosaur Land when Bowser once again kidnapped her.

In Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Peach was one of Mario's party members, along with Mallow, Geno and Bowser.

In Super Mario 64, Peach invited Mario to her palace for a cake, but before Mario arrived at the palace, Bowser came and took control of the Power Stars.

In Super Paper Mario, Peach is forced by Count Bleck to marry Bowser against her will, in order to unleash the destructive Chaos Heart.

In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Peach is kidnapped on the day of her birthday by Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings.

In the United States, the character was first referred to as " Bowser, King of the Koopa " and " The sorcerer king " in the Super Mario Bros. instruction manual.

Bowser is the leader and most powerful of the turtle-like Koopa race and is the greedy archnemesis of Mario beginning with his first appearance, in the game Super Mario Bros. His ultimate goals are to marry Princess Peach, defeat Mario, and conquer the Mushroom Kingdom.

In the Super Mario Bros. film, Bowser, known as King Koopa in that adaption, was portrayed by Dennis Hopper.

Bowser as the final boss as seen in New Super Mario Bros. 2.

Bowser and his seven underlings reappear in Super Mario World, where they conquer Dinosaur Land and kidnap Peach while she and Mario are on vacation on Yoshi's Island.

He returns in Super Mario Sunshine, in which his youngest, but favorite son, Bowser Jr., who is disguised as an evil version of Mario, kidnaps Peach.

In New Super Mario Bros., Bowser is the boss of the first world, which features a battle similar to that of Super Mario Bros. After being defeated, he falls into lava and transforms into a skeletal version of himself known as Dry Bowser.