Obscurity: Super Mario Bros Special by Hudson

[ReyVGM]

Super Mario Bros. Special, developed by Hudson soft for the PC-88, technically it's the first licensed sequel to Super Mario Bros 1.
One big strange thing the game has is that it doesn't side scroll. The game advances screen by screen, just like the MSX2 Contra.



A wee bit of info (and rom download) here:
worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/special.htm

More info about other Hudson developed Mario games:
andre.facadecomputer.com/saw/pc88.html

And a game play video (check the fireball enemies from Yoshi island):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQcLIJt7Hdo

[Mister K]

I remember playing this emulated a while ago. Found it too difficult to maintain my interest.

[ninjarygar]

Holy smokes. I didn't know anything about this.

[neomerge]

lol someone should do a super mario brothers 1 rom hack and make the game like this with sidescrolling. I read about this right after I beat the Lost Levels earlier this year but never got around to trying this out.

[vysethebold]

I actually read an entire article on this game and 2 other PC Mario games that Hudson did in an issue of Retro Gamer. The other two were more like the original arcade Mario Bros. They are supposedly much better than Super Mario Bros. Special.

[Malroth]

Yeah, I remember this being mentioned on the Lost Levels forums. The game itself is pretty bad. There were also a few more Mario games like this, which were also bad.

[savagepencil]

I think the fireballs are actually the firefoxes from Donkey Kong. And I think I made out a jumping fly dude from the original Mario Bros.

[Gilder]

Wow, nice find! Doesn't play well though...

This is just as bizarre (albeit officially released) as the Hong Kong hack find of Super Mario World for the Genesis.

www.sega-16.com/Hacks%20Homebrews-%20Super%20Mario%20World.php

[neomerge]

That jumping fly was the Hudson Bee that they added.

[lavis]

I remember another mario for PC, more like a spin off than a sequel but i don't remember the name very well.

[Sac (a.k.a Icaras)]

There were quite a few Mario "edutainment" titles released on the PC. I own 1 myself (Mario's Time Machine), which I got via a mailorder thing they did for books (and later on, educational PC software) at my little sister's primary school.