Mario Bros. was an arcade game where you played competitivly against your pallet swapped brother Luigi in the sewers of Brooklyn as a pair of Plumbers that seem to be acting more as animal control officers, fighting off Fighter Flies, Shell Creepers (Turtles), Lobsters...or are they Crabs, and being chased around by fireballs. The game was laater repurposed as a part of 2-player rounds of Super Mario Bros. 3 as a way to trade cards with each other competitively.

Since then, it feels like Mario's history is slowly fading away in favor of retcon and appealing to a newer audience in our post-blue-collar, poor as dirt America of the present time. Probably by the time I'm 80, nobody will remember he was the protagonist in the first Donkey Kong and antagonist in the 2nd, or that he was in this game, or that this game at all was included in Super Mario Bros. 3, heck, by then I'll probably be "screaming at clouds" over Super Mario Bros. 3 being forgotten.

Now, don't get me wrong, I had played this on Emulation before but there's just something about it being played "as designed" that makes it behave ever-so-much better. It was like I finally "got" the game as a game, rather than feeling disconnected due to some weird abstract usage of the "wrong" controller. And that's how I came to like this port.