New Super Mario Bros.

New Super Mario Bros. Logo

Studio

Nintendo EAD
SRD (programming)

Publisher

Nintendo

Senior Developer

Takashi Tezuka (General Producer)

Hiroyuki Kimura (Producer)
Shigeyuki Asuke (Director)
Masanao Arimoto (Design Director)
Toshihiko Nakago (Programming Director)
Koji Kondo (Sound Director)
Shigeru Miyamoto (Supervisor)

Satoru Iwata (Executive Producer)

composer

Asuka Ota
Hajime Wakai

Erstveröffent-
lichung

May 15, 2006 May 25, 2006 June 30, 2006

platform

Nintendo DS

genre

2D jump 'n' run

Game mode

Single player , multiplayer

control

NDS pad

language

German , English , French , Italian , Japanese , Spanish

Age rating

USK

PEGI

New Super Mario Bros. is a video game produced by the Japanese company Nintendo for the Nintendo DS portable video game system . This is a 2D - Jump 'n' Run game. It was released in Europe on June 30, 2006. At the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2009, Nintendo announced the successor New Super Mario Bros. Wii , other games continue the series, see successor .

The term "New" in the title comes from the fact that New Super Mario Bros. revisited the classic game principle of the first Super Mario Bros. for the NES . With New Super Mario Bros. Nintendo initiated a renaissance of 2D platformer games, after which, with the advent of 3D games, they had initially been almost completely displaced. It is also the most successful Nintendo DS game of all time, with over 30.80 million units sold .

Game description

As with most Super Mario games, Princess Peach is kidnapped in this game . The player must set out with Mario to save them. He crosses ice levels, deserts, castles, etc. The game comprises 80 levels in eight worlds; two of them have to be unlocked first. It also includes 18 mini-games and a two-player mode in which one player plays Mario and the other Luigi.

control

New Super Mario Bros. is played primarily with the console joypad . The mini-games are controlled with the touchscreen and the items and the worlds are selected on a map screen. With Mario, like in the older Mario games, you can run, jump, smash blocks and enter tubes. What is new compared to all other Mario 2D games, however, is the stomp attack as Mario without using an item beforehand, the wall jump and the rope swing, which enables the player to get to higher places.

successor

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

At the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2009 Nintendo announced the game “New Super Mario Bros. Wii”, which was released for the Wii on November 20, 2009 in Europe. The most important innovation is the multiplayer mode, which can be played with up to four players at the same time. Depending on the situation, you can help each other or play against each other.

New Super Mario Bros. 2

In April 2012, Satoru Iwata announced New Super Mario Bros. 2 , which was released worldwide in July and August 2012 for the Nintendo 3DS.

New Super Mario Bros. U

When the Wii U was released, the launch title New Super Mario Bros. U appeared , based on the demo of New Super Mario Bros. Mii that was presented in advance . For the first time, an offshoot of the New Super Mario Bros. series supports high-resolution graphics in 720p . Other innovations include the integration of the Wii-U gamepad, so that a total of five people can take part in the game, and the Miiverse social network . The world map now consists of a connected map, similar to Super Mario World .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ New Super Mario Bros. (2006) Nintendo DS credits. In: MobyGames . Retrieved August 17, 2015 .
↑ New Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo DS - Nintendo Game Details. Nintendo of America , accessed August 17, 2015 .
^ New Super Mario Bros. Nintendo DS Games. Nintendo Germany, accessed August 17, 2015 .
↑ Jeremy Parish: The 2D Platformer Renaissance. (No longer available online.) In: 1UP . April 16, 2012, archived from the original on October 5, 2015 ; accessed on August 17, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ IR Information: Sales Data - Top Selling Software Sales Units - Nintendo DS Software. Nintendo, March 31, 2020, accessed August 18, 2020 .
↑ James Newton: Nintendo Reveals New Super Mario Bros. 2 for 3DS. In: Nintendo Life. April 21, 2012, accessed August 17, 2015 .

[1] New Super Mario Bros. (2006) Nintendo DS credits. In: MobyGames . Retrieved August 17, 2015 .

[2] New Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo DS - Nintendo Game Details. Nintendo of America , accessed August 17, 2015 .

[3] New Super Mario Bros. Nintendo DS Games. Nintendo Germany, accessed August 17, 2015 .

[4] Jeremy Parish: The 2D Platformer Renaissance. (No longer available online.) In: 1UP . April 16, 2012, archived from the original on October 5, 2015 ; accessed on August 17, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[softwaresales-5] IR Information: Sales Data - Top Selling Software Sales Units - Nintendo DS Software. Nintendo, March 31, 2020, accessed August 18, 2020 .

[6] James Newton: Nintendo Reveals New Super Mario Bros. 2 for 3DS. In: Nintendo Life. April 21, 2012, accessed August 17, 2015 .