Mario Bros. Special

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Mario Bros. Special
Mario Bros. Special Title Screen
Developer(s) Hudson Soft
Publisher(s) Hudson Soft
Release date(s) Japan 1984
Genre(s) Platform game
Mode(s) Single player, Multiplayer
Platform(s) NEC PC-8801
Media Floppy disk
Input Computer keyboard
Mario Bros. Special featured environments that were a significant departure from the original.
Mario Bros. Special featured environments that were a significant departure from the original.

Mario Bros. Special is a video game released by Hudson Soft in 1984. It is a re-imagining of the original Mario Bros. with new stages, mechanics, and gameplay.

Mario Bros. Special ran on the Japanese computers NEC PC-6001mkII, NEC PC-6601, NEC PC-8801, FM-7, and Sharp X1. It was created in 1984 by developers Hudson Soft. It is not well-documented how or why Hudson was granted the rights to develop the game, nor why they chose to produce a fairly new game instead of a port.

It has never been re-released in any form.

Hudson produced several other unique Mario titles for the PC-88, including Punch Ball Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. Special.

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