Super Mario Bros is 30 today....

Mr E

30 years since SMB came out in Japan... holy crap. It came out on September 13th 1985.

https://twitter.com/NintendoUK/status/642971042940645376

30 amazing facts to celebrate the day.

Star Lord

I remember playing it both on a friends NES and in the arcade (via a PlayChoice 10 arcade machine!)

And now we're all trying to make our own Mario levels!

CiDeRmAn

I remember seeing the reviews of the NES and Mario on it, I was a Spectrum player at the time and was too busy looking towards the Amiga and ST for the future of gaming, and hence the division between the Snes and Megadrive was born, with a lot of European Amiga development transferring to the MD with ease, Worms, Super Skidmarks, Speedball2, Chaos Engine, Cannon Fodder.

FallSilently

Myself and my mates had fierce battle lines drawn over whether it was called "fire flower" or "flower power."

30 years on, I can safely say we buried those hippie b*****ds in the end.

Josey Wales

I can't believe it is 5 years since I bought the 25th Anniversary Wii compilation.

McLoughlin

I really love this video were the show how the made the game on graph paper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLoRd6_a1CI