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"Your princess is in another castle"

- Toad

Super Mario Bros. is a platform game released as a launch title of the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985.

Plot
Bowser had kidnapped Princess Toadstool of the Mushroom Kingdom so now Mario and Luigi must rescue her and restore peace. Unfortunately, Bowser has used his magic on 7 of his minions and placed them in castles to stall Mario and Luigi.

Why It's Rock

 * 1) Extremely fluent and smooth controls and proper momentum.
 * 2) The layouts of the game make speedruns fun. In fact, the Sonic series was created after Yuji Naka made a speedrun of the game. It also helps to get over the early levels quickly.
 * 3) Further popularized the side-scrolling genre.
 * 4) Music that compliments each type of stage.
 * 5) The mushrooms allow Mario to grow to a larger size and get hit once causing him to shrink back.
 * 6) After getting the mushroom, Mario is able to obtain the fire flower, which will allow Mario to shoot fireballs to damage enemies. Like the mushroom, Mario is able to get hit once before shrinking back.
 * 7) Different stage types allow for variety. The overworld is bright and cheerful and the more common stages. The underworld is dark and feature a ton of bricks that can be destroyed. The water stages allow Mario to swim around and avoid enemies and the castles have obstacles that must be avoided.
 * 8) Many copies were bundled with Duck Hunt, which was a light gun game. Two games in one.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) You have to start the game from scratch every time you run out of lives.
 * 2) You cannot make the screen scroll backwards, thus preventing you from backtracking.

Reception
Super Mario Bros is one of the recognized games of all time. It is also considered one of the best games ever made and is hugely responsible for making games good again after the North American Video Game Crash of 1983. Though it is not the first Mario game, it is responsible for the Super Mario franchise, and made Mario an icon of Nintendo and gaming in general. To this day it is still considered a great game despite its primitive design. James Rolfe as the Angry Video Game Nerd in his review of Kid Kool and the Quest For the Seven Wonder Herbs, called Super Mario Bros. the "time-tested approved way to make a side-scrolling platform game."