How Nintendo Made Super Mario Bros.

How did Nintendo make Super Mario Bros.? Explore the history of the original 1985 NES/Famicom game—from Mario's single-screen beginnings to paper level plans, changing design ideas, Koji Kondo's music, and an opening built for a new player. Watch next: How Goomba Walks With Just One Drawing    • How Goomba Walks With Just One Drawing   CHAPTERS 0:00 The world we remember 0:22 Mario before Super Mario Bros. 1:33 Big Mario, small Mario 2:09 From paper to playable 3:18 Finding Mario's music 4:06 Teaching a new player 5:13 The first mushroom 5:52 Release and the player's turn DEVELOPER SOURCES & ARCHIVAL MATERIAL Nintendo — Iwata Asks: Original Super Mario Developers https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Iwata-... Nintendo — The Grand Culmination https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Iwata-... Nintendo — Adjusting the Map in a Daily Cycle https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Iwata-... Nintendo — Applying a Single Idea to Both Land and Sky https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Iwata-... Nintendo Classic Mini interview, Volume 3: Super Mario Bros. https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/News/2... Nintendo — It All Began in 1984 (Nakago photograph) https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Iwata-... Nintendo — Design History of Super Mario Maker, E3 2015, via Kotaku    • Design History of Super Mario Maker, E3 2015   Nintendo — Famicom hardware history https://www.nintendo.com/jp/famicom/h... GAMEPLAY CREDITS Super Mario Bros. — Typhlosion4President    • Super Mario Bros - Complete Walkthrough   First mushroom/pipe return — RetroGame.Stream    • Super Mario Brothers - NES - Full Playthro...   Small-Mario death/title-screen source    • Super Mario Bros. - Gameplay Walkthrough P...   Donkey Kong — Nostalgia Games / manick    • Donkey Kong LONGPLAY (1981) [Arcade]   Mario Bros. — Long 'n Play    • Mario Bros. (Arcade) 【Longplay】   Devil World — World of Longplays / JohnX895    • NES Longplay [616] Devil World   Excitebike — NintendoComplete    • Excitebike (NES) Playthrough - NintendoCom...   MUSIC 'A New Year' by Scott Buckley — released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/libra... 'Childhood' by Scott Buckley — released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/libra... License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Tracks excerpted, level-adjusted and faded for this video. Super Mario Bros. game music and Lost A Life — Nintendo / Koji Kondo. Super Mario Bros. and the featured Nintendo game artwork belong to Nintendo. Developer recollections and later interview footage are presented in their historical context. #SuperMarioBros #Nintendo #GamingHistory