History VideoGame / NewSuperMarioBros1

* DamselInDistress: Peach. You get the idea.

* NoEnding: Unlike the other ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'' games, Mario and Peach are never shown actually leaving Bowser's castle.

* ATwinkleInTheSky: Using a cannon on the map.

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: The giant-sized Bowser castle at the end of World 8.

* WalkOnWater: Mini Mario is light enough to do this.

The game was Mario's--and the video game industry in general's--grand return to 2D games and revived the 2D side-scrolling game scene single-handedly, receiving critical acclaim upon release and ending up as the best selling Nintendo DS game with over 30 million units sold. The game preserves the classic 2D ''Mario'' gameplay but differentiates itself from its predecessors by bringing gameplay elements introduced in 3D ''Mario'' games to 2D ''Mario'' games alongside introducing various new power-ups, locations, obstacles, enemies and bosses to the franchise. As longtime ''Mario'' developer Takashi Tezuka puts it, "You can think of it as carefully preserving the core gameplay while dressing it up with new elements that enhance it."

* AdvertisedExtra: Non-character example. The Mega Mushroom was prominently featured in advertising and marketing material for the game, but in reality, it only appears in a total of four levels under normal circumstances.

** The game has various unique obstacles and enemies not present in its sequels, of particular note regarding the obstacles, this is the only ''NSMB'' game with Spin Blocks that launch Mario/Luigi high into the air to then be able to descend with a drill spin jump, [[VideoGame/SuperMario64 Dorrie]] as a vehicle, [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld Moving Snake Blocks]] as platforms required to clear the level, [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 Castle Mazes]] with correct and incorrect paths, a Giant Wiggler that works as the floor in Sky levels, a Mega Unagi that chases you in underwater levels, and a level switch that turns the entire level ''upside-down'' in the final castle level.
** This is the only game in the NSMB series to have ''two separate castles'' each with their own boss (the regular castle having Dry Bowser, Bowser's Castle having the FinalBattle between Bowser and Bowser Jr.). While ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU'' technically has two Castle levels, it's all within the corrupted Peach's Castle, and the first half ''doesn't even have a boss.''

** Normally, once you beat a Tower or a Castle in a World, Bowser Jr. will exit the place and drags Peach with him to either that World's Castle or the next World respectively. However, if you skipped to a later World through a Warp Cannon and return back to the Worlds prior to that, then the animation for beating them changes to simply having a white flag being generated from the top the Tower/Castle, with Bowser Jr. nowhere to be seen in the world map as he's already in the furthest Tower/Castle available to the player.

''New Super Mario Bros.'' is a {{platform game}} released in 2006 for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS and the first game in the ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'' series, [[RevisitingTheRoots deliberately modeled]] after the side-scrolling games in Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series, but featuring [[SpritePolygonMix polygonal renderings of some characters and objects to give it a 2.5D look]]. It's also the first original side-scroller in the series since 1995's ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'', and the first to star Mario as the playable character since 1992's ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins''.

* ShoutOut: Bowser's defeat is very similar to [[VideoGame/{{Metroid}} Crocomire's]].

* SameContentDifferentRating: The image source. The game's rerelease on the Wii U Virtual Console was hit with a 12+ rating in Europe due to [=PEGI=]'s shifting regulations meaning any game with simulated gambling automatically got hit with a 12+ rating.

** Ground pounding bosses would do double damage to them in this game. Later games would have ground pounds do normal damage to bosses to prevent cheesing. Also, ground pounding a Koopa Troopa or other shelled enemy will not instantly defeat them, but instead immediately sends them sliding.

The game was Mario's--and the video game industry in general's--grand return to 2D games and revived the 2D side-scrolling game scene single-handedly, receiving critical acclaim upon release and ending up as the best selling Nintendo DS game with over 30 million units sold. The game preserves the classic 2D ''Mario'' gameplay but differentiates itself from its predecessors by bringing gameplay elements introduced in 3D ''Mario'' games to 2D ''Mario'' games alongside introducing various new power-ups, locations, obstacles, enemies and bosses to the franchise. The Wall Jump, Triple Jump, and Ground Pound make their first appearance in a 2D ''Mario'' game here since being introduced to 3D Mario games in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. In addition to the series' usual {{power up}}s of the Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, and Starman, ''NSMB'' introduced some new ones. The Mega Mushroom turns Mario into a giant à la ''VideoGame/SuperMario64 DS'', allowing for some massive property damage. The Mini Mushroom shrinks Mario to the size of a mouse, enabling him to get through very small passageways, have a floatier jump, and run on water at the expense of [[OneHitPointWonder death in one hit]]. The Blue Koopa Shell allows Mario to protect himself while crouching; when running, he can knock enemies away just like the Koopa shells he kicks. Finally, Shell Mario can swim better underwater.

[[caption-width-right:350:Jump into an all-new Mario adventure!]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Out of the way! Giant plumber coming through!]]

** Unlike later NSMB games, Bowser was voiced by Creator/PeterCullen, via archival audio taken from a sound library; his roars had already been recorded and used decades earlier in films such as ''Film/KingKong1976'' and ''Film/Jaws2''. This was actually the standard for Bowser since ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' ten years prior, and all of Bowser's voice clips in this game were ones previously used throughout the [=N64=] era. Following this game, Bowser's voice would instead be provided by a variety of in-house voice actors, each of whom would give Bowser a more human-like voice a-la his portrayal in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', rather than Cullen's more overtly animal-like roars. Additionally, the "power-up loss" and "coin" sounds are reused from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' rather than ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''.