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Mario Bros

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Mario Bros. staged two moustache plumbers: Mario and Luigi, who have to investigate the sewers of New York after strange creatures appeared there.

The goal of the game is to eliminate all the enemies present in the level, level after level, scoring the maximum points and trying to go as far as possible. Bonus levels in which you have to recover a maximum of coins to earn more points are present. It is possible to play two, the second player then controlling Luigi (one palette swap Mario) and competing with the first.

The game is composed of small size levels and the screen is fixed. The levels have several floors in which enemies can borrow the pipes to pass from the lower floor to the upper floor, and vice versa. Skip and run are the only mechanisms gameplay de Mario Bros.. It is possible to go out on one side of the screen to appear on the other side.

To finish a level, the player must defeat the enemies. It has to make it hit under the targeted enemy platform jumping from the lower floor, and thus returning it to the back. The enemy is then vulnerable and just touch it to eliminate it. If the player doesn't eliminate a vulnerable enemy fast enough, it leaves, its color changes and its speed increases. An enemy can change and increase its speed twice. The player earns points to each enemy eliminated. Unlike the games of the series Mario following, the player cannot jump on the enemies to crush them, unless they are already on the back. The last living enemy of the level, which is distinguished by its color, systematically adopts the maximum speed.

There are three types of enemies: the "Careers" (and not Koopa Troopa, who will make their first appearance in Super Mario Bros.), replaced by the "Heriss" in the game mode Super Mario Bros. 3 or in the accompanying version Super Mario Advance) the Zarbipas, who need to be hit once again to be defeated and become faster after having been hit a first time; and the Fighter Fly, slow but difficult flies to return because of their ability to fly. Dans Super Mario Bros. 3 we can see Dry Bones, a zombie Koopa Troopa called Skelerex later in France. Other enemies exist that it is not necessary to eliminate to finish the levels: these are fireballs and ice stalactites, which can be eliminated by striking them below. Fireballs can burn Mario, ice stalactites fall from below frozen platforms and turn the level into a rink. The player can also use the "POW block", which returns any enemy touching the ground. We can use them three times a level. The version accompanying the series Super Mario Advance has two: one at the bottom of the level (like other versions) and one at the top.

In the version developed for Super Mario Advance, an additional game mode called "Battleappears, the original game mode being then renamed "Classic" In this mode Battle, the goal is to recover five pieces before the other players. It also becomes possible to play four in this version.