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.

In Super Mario Kart the player takes control of one of eight Mario series characters, each with differing capabilities.

Super Mario Kart received positive reviews and has been praised for its presentation, innovation and use of Mode 7 graphics.

Several sequels to Super Mario Kart have been released, for consoles, handhelds and in arcades, each enjoying critical and commercial success.

While some elements have developed throughout the series, the core experience from Super Mario Kart has remained intact.

Super Mario Kart is a kart-racing game featuring several single and multiplayer modes.

In order to start a race in Super Mario Kart, Lakitu will come in with the traffic light hanging on the fishing pole, which starts the countdown to the race.

Super Mario Kart has two single player modes, Mario Kart GP and Time trial.

Super Mario Kart also has three multiplayer modes ; Mario Kart GP, Match Race and Battle Mode.

Super Mario Kart was the first game to feature playable characters from the Mario series other than Mario in a non-platforming game and the selection and different attributes of the characters is regarded as one of the game's strengths, IGN describing a well-balanced " all-star cast ".

All of the characters present in Super Mario Kart have gone on to appear in all of the later games in the series, except for Koopa Troopa, who has only appeared intermittently after being replaced by Wario in Mario Kart 64.

The Donkey Kong character in later Mario Kart games is considered to be the grown-up version of Super Mario Karts Donkey Kong Jr.

The tracks in Super Mario Kart, except for Rainbow Road in the Special Cup, are based on locations in the Super Mario World series such as Donut Plains.

The track themes in Super Mario Kart influenced later games in the series ; recurring themes that first appeared in Super Mario Kart include haunted tracks, Bowser's castle and Rainbow Road.

The song features a sample drum track from the New Traditionalists song, " The Super Thing ".

One prominent example is the anime Maziger Z, where the term " Super Robot ", features in the Japanese theme song According to Go Nagai:

Other features present in Super Mario Kart have disappeared from the series.

Some fighting games allow the player to create other types of game content: Super Smash Bros. Brawl, for example, features the ability to create custom stages.

Super Circuit combines features from earlier Mario Kart games ( Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64 ).

Mario Kart: Super Circuit features 20 original race tracks, as well as 20 from Super Mario Kart.

The game's sequel, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, features the original version of Dr. Marios " Fever " background music theme and a version of the " Chill " theme arranged by Masaaki Iwasaki, who had previously composed for Magical Drop as part of the Data East Sound Team.

The novel Darksaber features the Night Hammer, a Super Star Destroyer " plated with stealth armor ", making it " virtually invisible to enemy forces ".

* British — David Bowie dressed as Pierrot for the video of Ashes to Ashes ( 1980 ) and for the sleeve of his album Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ) ( 1980 ); Leo Sayer dressed as Pierrot on tour following the release of his first album, Silverbird ( 1973 ); Robots in Disguise: The Tears ( 2008 ), a video directed by Graeme Pearce, features black-suited Pierrots involved in love triangle.

The World Touring Car Championship features 1. 6-litre cars built to Super 2000 regulations based on FIA Group N.

A 1983 product called Vanilla PILOT for the Commodore 64 combined some features of LOGO, as did Super Turtle PILOT which was published as a type-in listing in the October 1987 issue of COMPUTE!

A Pokémon stage in Super Smash Bros. called " Saffron City " features an area where various Pokémon pop out to attack players ; one such Pokémon is a Charmander that sometimes uses Flamethrower.

Slash ' EM ( Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack-Extended Magic ) is a variant of the roguelike game NetHack that offers extra features, monsters, and items.

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.

Mario Kart: Super Circuit also features the character.

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island was ported by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development to the Game Boy Advance as Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 with added features.

The Super Mario Adventures graphic novel, which is a collection of comics originally serialized in Nintendo Power, features Wario in two of the stories.

As one of the earlier three dimensional ( 3D ) platform games, Super Mario 64 features free-roaming analog degrees of freedom, large open-ended areas, and true 3D polygons as opposed to two-dimensional ( 2D ) sprites.

One sequel, Super Mario Galaxy 2, features a remake of the Whomp's Fortress level.

Super Mario Land 2 features three returning power-ups — the Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, and Starman.