Super Mario Bros. & The Lost Levels - Creating Classics 

1:20 Could be these sprites were meant to show during Mario/Luigi's idle state? The thinking pose when Mario stays in place long enough and the ones where Mario rises his arms when the time is running out, telling the player to hurry up.

Super Mario Bros., the game that needs no introduction! **proceeds to introduce the game**

Good video! Not easy to find something new about Super Mario Bros. but you managed to pull it off! Those early sprite-sheets of SMB1 was really interesting! I think he was supposed to ride a cloud at an early stage of development, maybe those sprites were for making the cloud go up or down? Just speculation of course :)

6:14 In this footage, we can also see that the levels were ordered differently and put into different spots, and even have different palettes sometimes. All those levels aren't in their final locations. For example, that 5-3 stage is actually 4-3 in the final game, and in the final has a regular overworld palette but there it uses the castle palette (aka Snow Night when used in overworld stages). Also, fun fact about VS. Super Mario Bros.: funnily enough, it was the first and for a while only version of Super Mario Bros. 1 available on the Nintendo Switch. It was released as part of the Arcade Archives series long before the NSO service with the NES games launched. So if you wanted to play an NES Super Mario title on the Switch at that time, VS. Super Mario Bros. was your only option lol.

I haven’t finished watching this video yet, but your channel seems very interested. I’ll be keeping an eye to see how this channel grows. Anyways good job so far (Also here before 300 subs).

such a shame this channel is underrated

Great video dude, earned my sub!

This will definitely blow up.

Got a new sub, I love video game history. I feel lucky to have enjoyed being a kids back then. We got the first nes for xmas. I'll never forget it. It was a combo back with duck hunt.. anyway I enjoy the history very much behind my fave things...

this is awesome! (also nice use of mario paint music)

I imagine Mario's palette doesn't match the artwork (or arcade colors) like it used to so that they could repurpose those colors for Koopas, Toad, Toadstool etc., given they could only use so many palettes at a time. Made him more drab so the colors could be multi purpose. Of course if you play as Luigi you aren't rescuing green toads but his palette appears in Mario gameplay when you power up or get a star so the theory still stands methinks

This is an amazing video. Why does this have so little views?

you are SO underrated (also another man of culture with a luigi pfp)

This is great

1:39 it could be mario doing jumping jacks

Nice video!

Good clue about SMB is that 5-1 has a small castle at the beginning, not the big one like all other *-1 levels. Suggesting that 5-1 was moved to that position later in development and they forgot to change the castle. And 5-3 is a repeat of 1-3... So, it's possible that the current 5-1 was supposed to be 5-3 or something else, while the original 5-1 was scrapped, when they realized they didn't have enough space on the cart and that they'd have to make repeat levels

Interesting to think about, but it seems Super Mario Bros. was one of the most ambitious games ever when it came out.

smb1 has an unused enemy that used the sprite bank of a scrambled buzzy beetle that stands in place (including in mid-air) and turns into a koopa troopa when stomped

you are severely under rated

Great video

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Nice video

2:25 Misheard Word: Roblox Actual Word: Row of blocks

lovely video

I wish they kept Mario's DK palette, I wonder how Luigi would look

0:39 funny thing Nintendo was a card company before they made video games

Respectful

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Do you know? SUPER WAHOO BROS.?

6:01 Wait what?

05:23 that isn't a screenshot from VsSMB

One this you didn't mention is the early concepts, the Game at some point was gonna have Mario riding in a cloud holding a gun shooting enemies. This was scrapped early on. For Mario two you didn't mention that there is an unused car wheel sprite in the code

They should’ve used Mario’s beta color scheme in the final game instead of that brown and red color scheme

You JUST said, you JUST said "it needs no introduction" and then gave an introduction wtf

Algorithm game funny

Is no one mentioning how he did a frame perfect wall jump at 4:06?

1985 beta

"this game needs no introduction" Proceeds to give it an introduction

😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

Mario was not *that* important lol. The game market was already alive and kicking outside of the US