Mario Bros. / YMMV

Common Knowledge: Because the arcade version (and ports based on it) marked his status as one of the most iconic video game characters, it is often thought of as Luigi's debut, with his trophies in Super Smash Bros. Melee, Brawl and 3DS and Wii U even referring to it as such. In reality, Luigi's first appearance was in the much different Game & Watch version of the game.
Demonic Spiders: The green fireballs, which spawned not from the pipes, but directly on your current floor.
Fan Nickname: Keeping with the theme of Luigi being a green Mario, the yellow and blue Marios in the GBA version are usually referred to as Wario and Waluigi respectively.
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- The Atari commercial characterized Luigi as a coward long before Luigi's Mansion or even The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! did.
- The blue Mario who serves as Player 4 in the GBA Battle Mode might look familiar to some people.
Good Bad Bugs: The NES version has a glitch where pausing the game right as Mario is about to hit a floor from underneath it will cause him to jump right through it.
It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: The game being released seven times on the GBA (the remake five times and the NES port twice). IGN in particular first praised the remake in their Super Mario Advance review, but increasingly got annoyed by its presence per subsequent release (even speaking to Nintendo in search for a reason) until becoming indifferent about it in their Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga review.
Memetic Mutation: "Mario, where are you?!" from the Atari commercial.
Older Than They Think:
- Luigi being the Cowardly Sidekick did not come from Luigi's Mansion or The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!. It came from the Atari commercial for Mario Bros.
- The NES port is the first to give Mario his modern color scheme (with a red hat and shirt and blue overalls), but Nintendo would not make this his official look until Super Mario Bros. 3.
Polished Port:
- Kaettekita Mario Bros. improves the controls, restores the arcades graphics, and adds back the Icicles. The European-only Classic Serie version retains all of this while removing the advertisements.
- The GBA remake has much better controls than the original arcade game, has All-Stars-style graphics, a beefed up soundtrack to spice things up, and voice acting (when single-player). On top of that, it can support up to a whopping four players at once!
Sequel Displacement: Super Mario Bros. is a lot more famous. So much so, that most (though not all) later games kept the "Super" part of the name which resulted in displacing the original meaning.^note That having been said, Nintendo still shows this game a lot of love, having remade it multiple times (most notably as part of the Super Mario Advance series and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga) and even making it a stage in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Suspiciously Similar Song: Listen to the bassline in the revamped soundtrack for the GBA remake, and you may find it sounds similar to the guitar hook in "Birthday" by The Beatles.

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