Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5262 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Released on: 2004-07-09
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Game Boy Advance
• Subtitled in: German
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.25" h x 5.00" w x 5.00" l, .16 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Famous jumps of the mid-1980s: Carl Lewis's long jump in the 1984 Summer Olympics, 1984's "Jump" by Van Halen and Mario jumping on top of flag poles, pipes and everything else he could get his feet on in 1985. Which one is still jumping? Mario, of course, thanks in part to the re-release of the title that made him a household name. Relive the mushroom-eating, Koopa-stomping action in Super Mario Bros. , part of the NES Classics series for the Game Boy Advance.

Who will ever forget the first time they found a warp pipe or cleared the game? Sometimes the memory fades and the trigger finger gets slower as you become an old-timer. So beating the game again could pose a challenge. Surely after a half hour with the game, it will all come back to you. And if you weren't even around when Super Mario Bros. first wowed the gaming world, you owe it to yourself to check out some of the greatest gameplay ever.

Not to be left out, Luigi does his share of brick bustin' and pipe crawlin'. Two players can alternate play with a single Game Pak or with GBAs linked by a Game Boy Advance Game Link Cable. You'll still have to wait a long time if the person you play with is as good at jumping on the Koopas as you are at jumping into them.

Customer Reviews

Super Mario Bros. Simply the best!!!!
How great is this game? Great! This is still an incredible game and it's 20 years old!! I love this, i never got a chance to play it on the NES so i bought this GBA version. I love it! Not being able to save is a bit frustrating. On the Game Boy color game 'Super Mario Bros. Duluxe' you can save which is great! I also think this would have looked better with the SNES Super Mario All Stars graphics. But this is still the game that Started the best platform series ever.

Extremely poor value for money.......
Dear oh dear. What an anti-climax the NES Classics series have been. Nothing exactly wrong with the games themselves (Nintendo games are THE BEST, I don't care what anyone says!) but the re-issue of these games is doomed to faliure as long as they're saddled with a £15 price tag.

Take Super Mario Bros. Great game, I will agree, but badly implemented here. The main problem: No game saving. Now, I know that people will say that this adds to the challenge and that you couldn't save the original game. But this is meant to be a PORTABLE version. Would there have been anything wrong with a system where you can save at any point, but only load the game back in once (like in some other Nintendo games)? Unless you're going on a lengthy journey (and somebody else is driving!), you're unlikely to have time to play through this. Sitting and playing it at home is an option...provided you haven't got a home version of it already (it's available on numerous multi-game systems and is even included as a freebie within Animal Crossing!). As I say, not being able to save on handheld games is bad.

There is also a distinct lack of extras too. Now, before you all get upset with me for criticising what is in effect a 20 year old game for having no extras, take into consideration the Game Boy Color version that was released a few years back. A GBC, as we know, is nowhere near as powerful as a GBA, and yet the game was stuffed with extras, like a 2 player link up mode, a red coin challenge, a calendar, a gallery of unlockable pictures.....even the entire version of the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 (only ever released over here as 'The Lost Levels' on the Mario All-Stars pack for SNES). In comparison, this makes this recent release look bad. Ok, so none of those features were in the original NES version, but that was only because of technical limitations of the time. And time has moved on. I am not knocking the actual game 'Super Mario Bros.' itself, I want to stress that. It's still an all time classic. But there is no reason at all why an un-enhanced original version of the game couldn't have co-existed on the cart alongside some extra features. No excuse, when £15 is being charged.

And that is my other biggest problem. For only a few pounds more (£10 at most), you could have one of the 'Mario Advance' series, all of which offer a lot more longevity in gameplay, come packaged with a version of the original Mario Bros. game, and, crucially, allow you to save your progress, so that you don't lose everything at the end of your bus/train/car journey.

Nintendo could have done really well selling the NES Classics games for £5-£10 each, instead they've gone for a ridiculous price tag which isn't even competitive with their other own releases that offer better value. As well as Super Mario Bros. being vastly outshone by it's GBC counterpart, they're now trying to con us into buying NES Classics Metroid, which is actually an unlockable extra in their older release, Metroid Zero Mission. So that works out at £15 for an old NES game, or £25 (or less if you buy it second hand) for a great new game with the NES version free.....you decide.

The final nail in the coffin for the NES Classics series, is not having the original Japanese artwork on the boxes, which makes them not even collectible. A real shame.

So there you go. NES Classics Super Mario Bros. = 5/5 (for the game), 1/5 for value.

It was due!
I remember having this game back in the good ole days. When I first got my NES system. with this game included. It was amazing. I love playing retro games, I think that sometimes they are better then games today - why? Because they revolved around plt ad gameplay rather then fancy graphics.

This game was the best I played since Frogger and Pacman on the Atari 2600 (anyone remember playing on that?) As someone else stated this game has some addictive tunes. (some even made it to the charts. lol). You can't beat the classics. What I hate is people that say. but they haven't even modded the graphics or sound or added some extra levels. These people don't understand the word classic. It is just over £10 for the game and it is a laff if you like the mario series. Everyone can play this game - When I say anyone I mean anyone.

Got a gameboy advance then this should be in your to buy list. Even better for the true NES feel. Got a GC and a GameBoy player then slap the cart in there and feel the classic gaming come flooding back.