Super Mario Bros. was the game that popularized the character of Mario, making it the main icon of Nintendo, and one of the most recognized characters in video games, as well as his younger brother Luigi. In addition, he presented for the first time to Princess Peach Toadstool, Toad, Bowser, among other characters. This game is considered the first video game of platforms of lateral displacement of Nintendo and has become a milestone due to the transcendence of its design and paper in the industry of the videojuegos. Its launch was the first great post-crisis sales record of the video game industry of 1983 (reaching more than 10 million cartridges sold), so popularizing, in a way, the NES console. In 1999 he was recognized as one of the best-selling videogames of all time.2 His creator Shigeru Miyamoto relates the existence of Super Mario Bros. because he traveled to a train where he liked to look out the window, and imagined that I was jumping outside.
After its commercial success, it had a direct sequel, well-known outside Japan like Super Mario Bros .: The Lost Levels, since in the West commercialized like direct sequel a variation of another game in which it had participated Miyamoto, Yume Koujou Doki Doki Panic !, because the version released in Japan was considered too difficult. It also had a variety of "alternate" versions, such as All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros., as well as adaptations to arcade, movies and television series.
September 13, 2010 marked the 25th anniversary of the game since its departure for the Famicom in Japan, as well as the 25th anniversary of the franchise. In November 2010 the Spanish city of Zaragoza dedicated an avenue to the famous plumber.