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|image=[[File:All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros cover.jpg|250px]]<br>Japanese box art

|release='''Family Computer Disk System:'''<br>{{release|Japan|December 1986<ref>Shogakukan. 2015. ''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', appearances section, page 239.</ref>}}

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'''''All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.''''' (オールナイトニッポン スーパーマリオブラザーズ) is an officially licensed retool of ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]'', produced in 1986 for the [[Family Computer Disk System]]. As such, there is no 2 Player Game but rather the option to play as [[Luigi]] with his unique physics. This version is based on the Japanese radio program ''{{wp|All Night Nippon}}'', and it was given out in a contest on the show itself to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the program in the upcoming year.

To get the game, listeners were told to send a postcard with interesting content. If it was not good enough, they would be entered into a raffle. ''Famicom Tsūshin'' (''Famitsu'') and ''Family Computer Magazine'' (''Famimaga'') also gave out 20 copies each to their readers in a lottery.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bi-weekly-famitsu-no.-14-december-26th-1986/Bi-Weekly%20Famitsu%20-%20No.%2014%20December%2026th%201986%20%28Compressed%29/page/n93/mode/2up Famitsu #14, December 26, 1986 issue]</ref> Most winners received their copy in February or March 1987. Initially, only 3000 copies were produced but a limited number were additionally created for mail order due to the high demand.<ref>[https://pony.velvet.jp/fcdisk/fdsidxmnlsealallst9.html Family Computer Disk System: Not for Sale]. Retrieved February 20, 2021.</ref> The game was published by {{wp|Nippon Broadcasting System}}, a subsidiary of {{wp|Fuji TV}} who would go on to publish ''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]'', which was localized in the West as ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''.

 

The game is a remix with most of the level designs adapted from ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' along with the likenesses of Japanese celebrities as sprite swaps. It takes place in the ビバ{{hover|王国|おうこく}}<ref name=monogatari/> (''Biba Ōkoku'', Viva Kingdom), which is named after "Viva Young", the slogan and subtitle of the ''All Night Nippon'' radio program. It is also the name of that show's newsletter. Likewise, the “{{hover|幻|まぼろし}}の{{hover|商売繁盛|しょうばいはんじょう}}”のコーナー<ref>''All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.'' instruction booklet, page 6.</ref> (''"Maboroshi no Shōbai Hanjō" no kōnā'', "Illusionary Business Prosperity" corner) that Bowser lures Pitiable Sunplaza in with is the name of a recurring segment in Sunplaza Nakano's show. He would perform a {{wp|guerilla gig}} at a small business, usually a restaurant, and overwhelm it with customers. Other games with a similar concept of Mario meeting Japanese celebrities were found on the [[Satellaview]], with spiritual successors such as ''[[BS Super Mario USA]]'', ''[[BS Super Mario Collection]]'', and a version of ''[[Wario's Woods]]''. ''[[Kaettekita Mario Bros.]]'' was another similar project.

'''Translated from the instruction booklet'''<ref name=monogatari>''All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.'' instruction booklet, pages 6 and 7.</ref>

*Most of the graphics are from ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels|The Lost Levels]]'', although bricks and mountains are drawn like those in ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' Bricks are not shaded, and mountains have smooth slopes instead of jagged slopes. Cloud platforms were replaced with the [[Mushroom Platform|Super Mushroom]] platforms but now with segmented stalks (which also replace the original [[Mushroom Platform|Super Mushroom]] platform designs from the original ''Super Mario Bros.''). Additionally, mikes replace the mushrooms found in the background.

*[[Goomba|Little Goomba]]s and [[Piranha Plant]]s were changed to big-headed caricatures of DJ Sunplaza Nakano, the Friday night host, and are respectively called オカピー<ref>''All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.'' instruction booklet, page 12.</ref> (''Okapī'', "OkaP") and パックンオカピー<ref>''All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.'' instruction booklet, page 13.</ref> (''Pakkun Okapī'', "Piranha OkaP"). This is a reference to Sunplaza Nakano's theme song in ''All Night Nippon''.

*The [[Super Star|Starman]] was changed into a Hiranya (ヒランヤ<ref>''All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.'' instruction booklet, page 10.</ref>), a symbol popularized by a Japanese radio show called ''Young Paradise''. The Hiranya also resembles the {{wp|Star of David}}, a symbol of {{wp|Judaism}}.

*The {{wp|Nippon Broadcasting System|Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc.}} (the radio station that runs ''All Night Nippon'') logo is found on the flag that is raised when [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] enter a [[fortress]]. This logo is also found as the [[axe]].

**World 2: たかあき<small>（とんねるず・石橋貴明）</small> / Takaaka <small>(Tunnels' {{wp|Takaaki Ishibashi}}), Tuesday co-host</small>

**Worlds 8 & D: ピーチ{{hover|姫|ひめ}} / [[Princess Peach]]

|8-4||[[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels)|8-4]]||This is the only level ported from ''The Lost Levels'' that is neither played out of order nor have its design be completely altered for this game.

Much like ''Vs. Super Mario Bros.'', with the sole exception of World 1-3/World 5-3 and World 8-4 (which, though reused from ''The Lost Levels'', is virtually left unchanged in terms of level order and design), all levels that are repeated, but in a much harder form later on are replaced with levels from ''The Lost Levels'', with the original level being moved earlier in the game to make room for that new level.

*Luigi is shown to look exactly like Mario with a blue hat and overalls and a green shirt on the cover of this game. The cover is a modification of {{media link|Mario no Daibouken single cover.jpg|artwork}} for ''[[Mario no Daibōken]]'', a 1986 single by {{wp|Pony Canyon}}, a subsidiary of {{wp|Fujisankei Communications Group}} like Fuji TV.<ref>[https://vgmdb.net/album/7844 Mario's Big Adventure/GO GO Mario!!]. ''VGMdb''. Retrieved January 23, 2021.</ref> Pony Canyon also released a ''Super Mario Bros.'' promotional video under the same title that featured the same cover.<ref>NES Tunes (January 8, 2021). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_jU9fe6lYI Nintendo VHS: Super Mario Bros.Promotion Tape: Mario's Adventure | All Night Nippon Famicom Warriors]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved January 23, 2021.</ref> That video ends with "[[Ground Theme (Super Mario Bros.)#Mario no Daibōken|GO GO Mario!!]]", the side B song from that single which was the winner of ''All Night Nippon'''s nation-wide contest for lyrics to the Ground Theme. It was from this partnership that the idea for the game was born.

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