Super Mario Games in the 80′s
Date: Friday July 23, 2010Posted in: Arcade,Atari,Famicom,Game Boy,NES,Remembering,Super Mario Bros
It’s no secret that Mario (otherwise known as Mario Mario) is the biggest and most famous videogame character in history. He has appeared in over 200 games including platformers, racers, rpgs, and fighting games! While we were originally thinking about putting together a list of all the Super Mario games throughout the years, it quickly became an overwhelming task so we thought to go by the decade – At least for now. (#):)
1980s
1981
- Donkey Kong (Arcade)
1982
- Donkey Kong Jr. (Arcade)
1983
- Donkey Kong (Atari 8-bit/Apple II/Commodore 64/MS-DOS) – North America release
- Donkey Kong (Famicom) – Japan release
- Donkey Kong Jr. (ColecoVision/Atari 2600) – North America release
- Donkey Kong Jr. (INTV/VIC-20) – North America and Japan release
- Donkey Kong Jr. (Famicom) – Japan release
- Donkey Kong Jr./Donkey Kong Jr. Math (Famicom/C1 NES TV) – Japan release
- Mario Bros. (Arcade/Game & Watch) – North America and Japan release
- Mario Bros. (Atari 2600, Atari 5200) – North America release
- Mario Bros. (Famicom) – Japan release
- Mario’s Bombs Away (Game & Watch) – North America and Japan release
- Mario’s Cement Factory (Game & Watch) – North America and Japan releas
1984
- Donkey Kong Hockey (Game & Watch)
- Pinball (Famicom/NES) – North America and Japan release - Mario is found in the bonus stage.’
- Mario Bros. Special (NEC PC-8801) – Japan release
- Punch Ball Mario Bros. (NEC PC-8801) – Japan release
1985
- Super Mario Bros. (Famicom/NES) – North America and Japan release
- Wrecking Crew (Famicom/NES) – North America and Japan release - Mario is the main character.
1986
- All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. (Famicom Disk System) – Japan release
- Donkey Kong (NES) – North America and Europe release
- Donkey Kong Jr. (NES) – North America release
- Mario Bros. (NEC PC-8801) – Japan release
- Mario Bros. (NES) – North America and Europe release
- Super Mario Bros. (Famicom Disk System) – Japan release
- Super Mario Bros. 2 (Famicom Disk System) – Japan release
- Super Mario Bros. Special (NEC PC-8801) – Japan release
- Vs. Super Mario Bros. (Arcade) – North America and Japan release
1987
- Punch-Out!! (Famicom/NES) - Mario is the referee
- Mario Bros. (Famicom/NES) - Mario is the main character
- Super Mario Bros. (NES) – European release
1988
- Donkey Kong (Atari 7800) – North America and Europe release
- Donkey Kong (Famicom Disk System) – Japan release
- Donkey Kong Classics (NES) – North America release
- Donkey Kong Jr. (Atari 7800) – North America and Europe release
- Donkey Kong Jr. (Famicom Disk System) – Japan release
- Kaettekita Mario Bros. (Famicom Disk System) – Japan release
- Mario Bros. (Atari 7800, XE Game System)
- Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES) – North America release
- Super Mario Bros. 3 (Famicom) – Japanese release
- Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt (NES) – North America release
- 3-in-1 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet (NES) – North America release
1989
- Alleyway (Game Boy) – North America and Japan release – Mario appears in bonus level, on the box art outside of Japan, and also drives/flies/controls the paddle on screen as shown in the intro
- Donkey Kong 2 (Game & Watch) – North America and Japan release
- Donkey Kong Classics (NES) – Europe release
- Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES) – Europe and Australia release
- Super Mario Bros. (Nelsonic Game Watch) – North America release
- Super Mario Land (Game Boy) – North America and Japan release
- Tetris (Famicom/NES) – North America and Japan release – Once player beats Level 9 Height 5, Mario appears.
- Tetris (Game Boy) – North America and Japan release – Mario and Luigi appear in 2-player game.
You can see that the 80′s had some of Mario’s more iconic releases and appearances including the original Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros 1-3, and Punchout!! with Mario of course playing the TKO loving referee.
