![]() That said, this fan-made pixel take on Super Smash Bros. It's a game that birthed several of the world's most recognizable characters, that inspired generations of game developers, that helped re-start an ailing industry. This is technically not a Mario game, but more if a tribute to Nintendo as a whole. "Super Mario Bros." set a new paradigm in terms of challenge, intent, design philosophy, and player expectation. ![]() But "Super Mario Bros." instead offered a real challenge, overcome through your own ability rather than dozens of quarters. Since arcade games wanted you to keep feeding in quarters when you lost, the odds were often unfairly (or outright impossibly) weighted against players. If you missed a jump with little Mario, it was on you - a major change from the cheap challenge offered by many arcade games at the time. It offers a feeling of precision that was unheard of at the time. Which is to say nothing of the game of course, which is excellent. It's this design philosophy that's inspired hundreds, if not thousands, of games over the years, created by people all over the world. It's been explained many times over by creator Shigeru Miyamoto: The game's design is brilliantly centered on teaching base level skills, and then building on those skills. None of the standards that were set by the dozens of "Super Mario" games thereafter could've been set without the original "Super Mario Bros." - perhaps the best game of all time. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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