The bums rush

Super Mario Bros

We had to start somewhere.

Although not the first game to feature the Mario character, Super Mario Bros. (SMB) was the first game with most of the features that would become standard in the Mario franchise.

SMB was the flagship release on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), the console that reestablished home video gaming in the United States in the mid-1980’s.

It’s also the most over-referenced game in the history of the known world. So we decided to make it the first game featured on The bums rush.

The players