2old2play has written up an article taking a nostalgic look back at the original Mario Bros. game in arcades and for the NES. For many people like me, that first exposure to the game was as a Battle Mode in Super Mario Bros. 3, or for others it was a bonus multiplayer mode in the Super Mario Advance games. For others, however, it was a game of its own, and the start of something amazing. Excerpt and link below:
Sure you got “Mario†with one player, but you didn’t have “Bros.†unless you got Luigi’s butt down in that sewer too. There was a brilliant symbiosis built into the two required tasks of the game… first to smash the floor beneath a sewer critter, and then to jump up to that deck and finish him off. One job must be done from below the bad guy’s platform, and the other can only be done on top of it. And since these Bros. are kind of slow, like… a couple of pudgy plumbers, it really helps to get one on each position.
