Super Mario Turns 30! Happy Birthday!
Super Mario Bros was released 30 years back on September 13, 1985 by Nintendo, a leading video game company and worldwide pioneers in the creation of interactive entertainment. While the character Mario did appear in earlier video games such as Donkey Kong in 1981, Super Mario Bros as such that eventually went on to becoming a worldwide success in the gaming field was released only until later, reports PC Magazine. From then on, there has been no looking back.
The famed plumber Mario was designed by Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and is today one of his greatest creations ever, to whom he unduly owes his phenomenal success and fame. While in Super Mario Bros, Mario was a plumber, he was initially introduced as a carpenter in Donkey Kong, states Yahoo Games.
An interesting point to be noted is that, the Super Mario doesn't come with any instructions or booklet, you just had to pick up the game and play. It continues to be a fan favorite, claims Yahoo Games.
Further, according to Yahoo Games, the collective versions of Super Mario games easily account for an astounding 310 million copies, with the original version alone selling more than 40 million copies worldwide. These staggering figures makes Super Mario Bros a colossal franchise in the history of global video games.
The game was first distributed on the Japanese version of the Nintendo system, 'Family computer' or Famicom and later became Nintendo Entertainment system (NES) as it is known today. At present, Nintendo Co. Ltd. of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii UTM, WiiTM home consoles, Nintendo 3DSTM and Nintendo DSTM families of portable gaming systems. Nintendo's current competitors include gamers from Apple's Iphone and Ipad, Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation, claims NPR.
The 30th anniversary was celebrated just a day before the video game company named executive Tatsumi Kimishima as its new president.
