Introduced 1 mechanic · Super Mario 1
Super Mario Bros.
Acceleration, skid, and variable jump height taught a generation a physical language.
Mechanics this game introduced
These are recorded as first appearing here. Each links to a full history of where the idea went next.
Mechanics it built on
Ideas Super Mario Bros. inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.
The Super Mario series in this dataset
1985
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