A piece of gaming history whose existence has until now escaped even the most supposedly definitive of books and web archives – a lost Super Mario Brothers game has been discovered!
Called “Super Mario Brothers Special”, the game ran on the obscure Japanese PC-8001 computer, and was created in 1986 by veteran developers Hudson Soft. Looking and sounding very much like the arcade/NES original, SMB Special has two major differences to its parent.
Firstly, it contains a complete new set of levels, different from both the first game and the Japan-only “Super Mario Bros 2″ which later appeared on the SNES Mario Allstars compilation. And secondly, rather than having a scrolling display in the manner of the other Mario games, SMBS features a flick-screen format which changes the gameplay significantly.
Despite these changes, and the primitive hardware the game was running on, SMB Special is an entertaining game, significantly harder than the original and a challenge even in comparison to the Japanese SMB2. But hey, don’t take our word for it…
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