Super Mario Bros. Special
Super Mario Bros. Special was the second Nintendo-licensed follow-up to Super Mario Bros., released around two months after Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. While superficially very similar to the original…
Super Mario Bros. Special is a platform developed by Hudson Soft, released 31 December 1986 on PC-8800 Series and Sharp X1.
What Super Mario Bros. Special is
Super Mario Bros. Special is a platform game developed by Hudson Soft and released in 1986. It was published by Caroline Software Incorporated. It is available on PC-8800 Series and Sharp X1.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Super Mario Bros. Special was the second Nintendo-licensed follow-up to Super Mario Bros., released around two months after Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. While superficially very similar to the original Super Mario Bros., the game features original new levels and has a screen-by-screen scrolling mechanism. The most significant difference is that it features none of the original levels, since the eight worlds are all unique to this release and have a high level of difficulty surpassing even Super Mario Bros. 2.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Mario series
Super Mario Bros. Special is the 53rd of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Donkey Kong in 1986.
What it launched against
Super Mario Bros. Special launched on 31 December 1986, within three weeks of World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel and Leaderboard.
Released around the same time: World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel, Leaderboard.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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