<Tr> <Th> Genre (s) </Th> <Td> Platformer </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Mode (s) </Th> <Td> Single - player, multiplayer </Td> </Tr> <P> Super Mario Bros. is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System home console . Released as a sequel to the 1983 game Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. was released in Japan and North America in 1985, and in Europe and Australia two years later . In Super Mario Bros., the player controls Mario and in a two - player game, a second player controls Mario's brother Luigi as he travels through the Mushroom Kingdom in order to rescue Princess Toadstool from the antagonist Bowser . </P> <P> Super Mario Bros. was critically acclaimed . In 2005, a poll by IGN named the "pioneering" and "highly influential" title as the "greatest game of all time", considering it to have aided in resurrecting the crashed American video game market of the 1980s . The game's mid-1980s release served to further popularize the side - scrolling subgenre of the already popular platform video game genre of the early 1980s . </P>

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