In trying to turn Mario into a modern crowd-pleaser, something gets lost in translation. The Super Mario Bros. Movie looks ... Olive Oyl from Bluto. The arcade game is a clear visual callback ...

Mario Bros. was in itself a successful and well-received game, becoming one of the most popular arcade cabinets in Japan and the U.S. in 1983. The game was confined to the arcade cabinet mentality ...

In the 1983 arcade game Mario Bros., Mario could avoid enemies only by running and jumping. But two years later, in Super Mario Bros., he was chowing down mushrooms that increase his size ...

There is also an arcade machine at the pizza place that closely resembles the original Donkey Kong. This was the first game that Mario ever appeared in, predating the original Super Mario Bros., ...

In the interview, Miyamoto reveals that while he was working on the Mario Bros. arcade game, he had to figure out a way for enemies to move from the bottom screen back to the top. “Due to the ...

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is finally here and whether or ... The references in the pizza parlor don’t stop with the arcade cabinet, however. In fact, the pizza parlor itself is another ...

That’s the minimum number of references to the various “Mario”-branded video games that “Super Mario Bros. Movie” composer ... someone walking through an arcade. Miyamoto wanted the ...