Atari 2600 Super Mario Brothers, Sorta.
February 21st, 2008
Ever wonder what a Mario game would have looked like if it came out on the Atari 2600 instead of the NES? The guys over at Geekstir dug up this great clip which shows off what that serious visual downgrade would have done for the game.
Imagine a world where you can barely make out the difference between the blocky little plumber and his squared off foes. Beavertron Entertainment’s re-imagining of the classic Super Mario Brothers does a pretty good simulating what the 2600 version might have looked like.
While it’s not perfectly accurate (there’s no way the 2600 could have produced those original NES sounds or the relatively crisp text at the top of the screen), but it’s still fun to watch.
Next up, Bioshock on the VIC-20.
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Categories: Retro Video Games
Tags: 1970s 1980s 2600 8 bit atari fake fun mario nes nintendo
No matter what console the game would come out for, that player sucks for life! OMG! someone uninstall him/her~!!!!
I hate to burst your bubble, but…
There already is a Mario Bros. game for the Atari 2600.
Maybe you should hire some writers that would actually research the subject of their article/posting/etc.
I know there was a crappy Mario Brothers game for the 2600. Show me the 2600 version of Super Mario Brothers, which is an entirely different game, and I’ll eat my words.
Besides the items the author of this article states are impossibilities on the 2600, I also have to add the scrolling worlds would have been outright impossible on the 2600, even with the graphics simplified.
You have to realize the 2600 was far more simplistic, hardware wise, than you think. Virtually every 2600 took a miracle to even work.
But to be honest, playing this game would have been a dream come true on my Atari. My parents got an Atari 7800 to replace our 2600, while my friends got Nintendo. I did have an extensive Atari game selection (over 100 carts and I still own them today). Despite, I gamed a lot at the houses of various friends.
Dude, i just bought mario bros for the atari 2600 off ebay today, it is R4 rare and cost me $10.
oh, and the gfx are way better than what is shown in this image.
(before you say it, no its not a homebrew or a port, it was manufactured by nintendo for atari with atari licenceing.)
you guys are NOT PAYING ATTENTION, we’re talking about SUPER mario bros; not the game that it’s called just Mario Bros. The atari Mario Bros it’s the game where you see a single screen with 3 levels of pipes and you gotta hit the turtles and goombas from the lower level
now SUPER mario bros has 8 chapters with 4 levels each (in case you have never played it, which actually LOOKS LIKE cuz you don’t know the difference between the mario bros game and SUPER mario bros game)
so you’re the one who actually need someone to make the research for you rocktar, cuz you ain’t rocking at all with that kind of comments, just showing your lack of knowledge