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 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.

In Super Mario Galaxy, Bowser steals Power Stars from Rosalina's Comet Observatory and kidnaps Peach, taking her to the center of the universe to recreate it, with the intention of taking over the universe, and is voiced by Kenny James.

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

This was first featured during Peach's first playable appearance in Super Mario Bros. 2.

In Super Mario Sunshine, Mario, Peach, Toadsworth and an entourage of Toads went to Isle Delfino on Peach's private plane.

He makes his first 3D appearance in Super Mario 64, where he takes over Peach's castle and steals 105 of the 120 Power Stars, scattering them through various worlds linked using the castle ( this raised to 150 in Super Mario 64 DS ).

Super Mario 64 is set in Princess Peach's Castle, which consists of three floors, a basement, a moat, and a courtyard.

It is the first Mario Party game to feature Luigi's main voice, Peach's main voice, and Wario's main voice replacing the voice clips from the first two Mario Party games, and also is the last Mario game where Princess Daisy appears in a yellow and white dress, and with long brown hair, tan skin, and her classic red crown, and Princess Peach's classic main dress, as well as the last Mario game ( until New Super Mario Bros. Wii ) in which Yoshi's classic " record-scratching " voice is used.

Peach's Castle first appeared in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and has been featured in many games since.

The castle made its first appearance as Princess Peach's home in the Mushroom Kingdom of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.

In Super Mario Galaxy a Toad Town-esque village inhabited by Toads is located near Princess Peach's Castle.

It should also be noted that Princess Peach's castle has changed appearances both internally and externally with almost every new game it appears in, with its newest location in Super Mario Galaxy being in a large countryside area, surrounded by hills, with a small town populated by Toads in front of it.

* The Peach's Castle ( Bowser's Galaxy Reactor stage in Super Mario Galaxy ).

There are nine playable stages in Versus mode, eight based on each of the starting characters ( such as Princess Peach's Castle for Mario, Zebes for Samus, and Sector Z for Fox ) and the unlockable Mushroom Kingdom, based around motifs from the original Super Mario Bros. ( from which the English-language name of the Smash series comes ), even containing original sprites and the original version of the Overworld theme from that game.