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5 unusual facts about Mario Bros.


Mario Bros.

A popular story of how Mario went from Jumpman to Mario is that an Italian-American landlord, Mario Segale, had barged in on Nintendo of America's staff to demand rent, and they decided to name Jumpman after him.

Mario Bros. 2

Mario Bros. II, a 1987 Commodore 64 game, intended as a sequel to the original Mario Bros. Game & Watch game

Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, a game included in 1993's Super Mario All-Stars package on the Super Nintendo and known as Super Mario Bros. 2 in Japan

Super Mario Bros. 2, a video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993, and the sequel to the original Super Mario Bros. outside of Japan

Mario Bros. II

The game was developed by amateur Commodore 64 programming group Thundersoft, a sub-group of the Dutch demo group RIFFS that would meet at the Oosterhout Computer Club.


Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3

It adds Mario's trademark voice acting as contributed by Charles Martinet, and features the Mario Bros. mini-game contained in other Super Mario Advance remake series.

It is the fourth and final release in the Super Mario Advance series, and was first revealed at Nintendo's conference at the E3 2003 convention, containing several enhancements, including the addition of Mario and Luigi's voices by Charles Martinet, the ability to scan e-Cards into Nintendo's e-Reader to add certain content, and a multiplayer mode based on the original arcade game Mario Bros.


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Andy Brick

Brick has conducted over 70 game titles including Final Fantasy, Super Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda, Halo, and World of Warcraft with orchestras throughout the world including Prague Symphony Orchestra, Moravian Philharmonic, Bratislava Symphony, The Czech National Symphony, The North Carolina Symphony, The Eugene Symphony, The Filmharmonic of Prague and members of the New York Philharmonic and Detroit Symphony.

Spiny

Spiny (Mario), a fictional four-legged creature in Super Mario Bros, often thrown by Lakitus