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'''''Mario Bros.''''' is a title for the [[Game & Watch]]. Despite its name, it has no similarity to the [[Mario Bros. (game)|arcade game of the same name]]. Instead of plumbing, [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] are working at a bottling plant and must prepare packages of bottles to load onto a delivery truck. This game, played on the Multi Screen model of the Game & Watch, was released on March 14, 1983<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20221128001046/http://www.intheattic.co.uk/mario_bros_.htm ''Mario Bros.'' info page on In The Attic, a website dedicated to classic videogames] (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine). Retrieved 13 November 2010</ref>—three months before the much more popular arcade title, making this the first game to feature Luigi. | '''''Mario Bros.''''' is a title for the [[Game & Watch]]. Despite its name, it has no similarity to the [[Mario Bros. (game)|arcade game of the same name]]. Instead of plumbing, [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] are working at a bottling plant and must prepare packages of bottles to load onto a delivery truck of a waiting [[driver]]. This game, played on the Multi Screen model of the Game & Watch, was released on March 14, 1983<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20221128001046/http://www.intheattic.co.uk/mario_bros_.htm ''Mario Bros.'' info page on In The Attic, a website dedicated to classic videogames] (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine). Retrieved 13 November 2010</ref>—three months before the much more popular arcade title, making this the first game to feature Luigi. | ||
The model opened like a book and could allow for simultaneous two-player action, with one player controlling Luigi on the left half of the game and the other playing as Mario on the right, making it the very first game of the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]] to have two-player mode. | The model opened like a book and could allow for simultaneous two-player action, with one player controlling Luigi on the left half of the game and the other playing as Mario on the right, making it the very first game of the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]] to have two-player mode. | ||
