Mario Bros.

Mario Bros.
North American arcade flyer
Developer(s)	Nintendo R&D1 Intelligent Systems (NES)[2] Nintendo R&D2[3] Atari, Inc. (2600, 5200) MISA (PC-8001)[4] Choice Software (CPC, Spec) Ocean (C64) ITDC (7800) Sculptured Software (Atari 8-bit)
Publisher(s)	Nintendo Nintendo (arcade) JP: Hudson Soft (PC-88) NA: Atari, Inc. (2600, 5200) Atari Corp. (Atari 8-bit, 7800) EU: Ocean (computers)
Producer(s)	Gunpei Yokoi
Designer(s)	Shigeru Miyamoto Gunpei Yokoi
Composer(s)	Yukio Kaneoka
Series	Mario
Platform(s)	Arcade Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Atari 7800 Atari 8-bit PC-88 FM-7 Commodore 64 NES Amstrad CPC ZX Spectrum Game Boy Advance
Release	1983[note 1] Arcade NA: March 1983 JP: July 14, 1983[1] Famicom/NES JP: September 9, 1983 NA: June 1986 EU: September 1, 1986 Atari 2600, 5200 NA: December 1983 PC-88 JP: February 1984 FM-7 JP: 1984 Commodore 64 NA: 1984 (Atarisoft) EU: 1987 (Ocean) Amstrad CPC EU: June 19, 1987 Atari 7800 NA: July 10, 1987 ZX Spectrum EU: 1987 Atari 8-bit NA: November 22, 1988 Nintendo e-Reader NA: November 11, 2002 Game Boy Advance JP: May 21, 2004
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Mario Bros.^[a] (sometimes nicknamed as Pipeline) is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo as an arcade video game in 1983. It was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi, Nintendo's chief engineer. Italian twin brother plumbers Mario and Luigi exterminate creatures, like turtles (Koopas) and crabs emerging from the sewers by knocking them upside-down and kicking them away. The Famicom/Nintendo Entertainment System version is the first game produced by Intelligent Systems. It is part of the Mario franchise, but originally began as a spin-off from the Donkey Kong series.

The arcade and Famicom/Nintendo Entertainment System versions were received positively by critics. Elements introduced in Mario Bros., such as spinning bonus coins, turtles that can be flipped onto their backs, and Luigi, were carried over to Super Mario Bros. (1985) and became staples of the series.

An updated version, titled Mario Bros. Classic, is included as a minigame in all of the Super Mario Advance series and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. Mario Bros. has been re-released through Nintendo's online stores for later systems.

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