Talk:Mario Bros. (game)

Prequel?
Can anyone confirm that this could be a prequel to Super Mario Bros.? The article says the brothers entered a pipe the enemies were emerging from at the end of the game. Is this true? -- Son of Suns
 * If I remember right, there was a certain history of Mario that stayed very true to the video games, yet filled in small gaps between them with unconfirmed information, such as the one you mentioned. It was one of the top his on Google.com.  Mind you, this was years ago (more than seven), but I could see it having stayed in someone's mind.  I believed it for quite some time myself.  In any case, we are given no reason to believe that the location of this game on the Mario timeline should "go against" the assumption that the games are released in chronological order (with the exception of certain games featuring baby characters).  So, what I'm saying is that yes, it's a prequel to Super Mario Bros. only so far as Donkey Kong was a prequel to Mario Bros. Still though, it makes perfect sense if you consider The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! interpretation that Mario and Luigi came from Brooklyn.  17:23, 4 January 2008 (EST)
 * It's not a prequel at all. A prequel is a SEQUEL that takes place earlier. As this game came out before Super Mario Bros it cannot be a prequel, merely a predecessor.98.243.94.83 19:38, 10 October 2014 (EDT)
 * Don't respond to comments that have a long year period between them. Thanks! – Owencrazyboy9 (talk) 18:01, 17 December 2016 (EST)
 * You too. ;) 17:04, 19 December 2016 (EST)

Article Name
Would anyone else like to see "Mario Bros." as the header to this page, and then the page currently at "Mario Bros." be changed to "Mario Bros. (disambiguation)"? I just feel that more people will search "Mario Bros." looking for this title instead of looking for the characters. 17:23, 4 January 2008 (EST)

? Mushroom
Well, and I were playing the SMB3 battle mode of this game, and we found a ? Mushroom, that makes the Mario switch to where Luigi is, and also switches their current state (eg: If Super Luigi and just Mario were in the game, and Mario or Luigi got a ? Mushroom, Super Luigi would shrink back to Luigi and Mario will become Super Mario.) So, does this have an article, or not just yet?
 * Not that I'm aware of, and I worked on the early part of the glossary and got beyond articles like ? Barrel. I'm pretty sure someone would have made a redirect to the appropriate name if that were the case.  Are you talking about the arcade version or the GBA remake?  21:42, 8 October 2008 (EDT)
 * The SNES one in SMB3, from SMAS+SMW.

That mushroom is exclusive to Super Mario All-Stars. See the report at TMK. "The rare red '?' mushroom item adds a new twist. Here's how it works: If Mario and Luigi are both 'Super' or both small, they will trade places if one of them touches the mushroom. However, if one brother is super and the other is small, it makes the super brother small and the small brother super, and they do not trade places." I'm not sure about the advance ports, but judging from the "new twist" statement it's not in the original SMB3. - 07:12, 26 October 2008 (EDT)

==Who are the other two "mario bros" If you play 4 player on the gameboy advance versions,there are 2 more players that are pallette swaps,are these actuall characters?

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Talk:Mario Bros.-e

Voice Acting
Who voiced the "Classic" and "Battle" options on the GBA multiplayer version? I would upload a sound clip of it but it won't let me yet.

Split Mario Bros. Classic from this article?
Seeing as we have most remakes split, and considering that the GBA remake has a different name from the original, should Mario Bros. Classic be split off this article? I'm planning on making a proposal for this, but first I want to see if the community is in support of this idea. - 16:35, March 25, 2019 (EDT)

Luigi
this is where many people were introduced to Luigi


 * Already in the article. 02:01, July 2, 2020 (EDT)

New York sewer system
Is there a better source that specifies the game's setting as the New York sewer system? The article's current source comes from Miyamoto's quote, "Looking at the setting of that game, it had the feeling of an underground New York sewer system." The impression I get is that it was just his idea from the game concept. Meanwhile, none of the instruction booklets or arcade flyers seem to corroborate with it, and in fact, the blurb in the Atari manuals paints a different picture: "Mario the carpenter and his brother Luigi are hopping mad! The water pipes in their house are blocked with crawling creatures. If the two brothers can’t get rid of them they’ll never take a bath again!" So the setting instead seems to be the Mario Bros.' House, unless that was supposed to be located in New York. LinkTheLefty (talk) 15:06, November 11, 2020 (EST)
 * A 2010 USA Today interview] has Miyamoto states "I think with Mario Bros. we had a setting of course that was underground, so I just decided Mario is a plumber. Let's put him in New York and he can be Italian. There was really no other deep thought other than that.". Glowsquid (talk) 16:08, November 11, 2020 (EST)
 * They decided Mario was Italian later? Though I guess Miyamoto also admits that there isn't a deep thought to it. So how should we take Miyamoto and Atari's story? Should we just write that the house is located in New York, or should we take better note of the difference between settings? LinkTheLefty (talk) 17:05, November 11, 2020 (EST)
 * Well Miyamoto has referred to Mario as "an Italian-American from Brooklyn, New York" as early as 1996 so make of that as you will. Best way to handle it would just to just say it takes place in a sewer and note the differing stories in parantheses imo --Glowsquid (talk) 17:16, November 11, 2020 (EST)

Super Mario Bros. 3 and Game Boy Advance
Lightly touched on above, but moving from this proposal, I definitely think that both the Classic Mario Bros. battle mode in Super Mario Bros. 3 and the Game Boy Advance remake of Mario Bros. are easily transformative enough to split, especially considering Kaettekita Mario Bros. is its own article. LinkTheLefty (talk) 11:51, November 13, 2020 (EST)