27. Mario Bros.

Mario Bros. 
Atari 2600
1983







Mario, no longer a carpenter, is now a plumber working with his brother Luigi. Together, they are trying to rid the sewers of turtles, crabs, and really large flies. When they kill a pest, someone flushes some money down the pipes, and the two brothers scrabble for the money like pigs.

Like Mario’s first game, Donkey Kong, this game takes a blue collar job and exaggerates it into a fun gameplay scenario. Unlike Donkey Kong, this game this game has no giant gorilla. Mario Bros. is one of those games that is well constructed, and perfectly playable, yet ultimately kinda boring. Ain’t nothing super about this game.

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