Overview
- Number of Players
- 4
- Genre
- Release Date
DS
15th May 2006
30th Jun 2006
25th May 2006
Wii U eShop
- 14th May 2015, $9.99
- 17th Dec 2015, £8.99
- Series
- Tags
- Official Site
- mario.nintendo.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Reviews
Review New Super Mario Bros. (Wii U eShop / DS)
LittleBigKingdom
When New Super Mario Bros. released for the Nintendo DS back in 2006, it had been roughly 15 years since the portly plumber starred in a proper 2D platformer. Not only that, but side-scrollers in general had been largely ignored since 1996, when the Nintendo 64 hit the market and assured us that 3D gaming was the way of the future...
Review New Super Mario Bros. (DS)
New and improved?
Just a little over 20 years ago, Nintendo released their Nintendo Entertainment System onto the US gaming market and packaged with it, a game that would forever change the landscape of video games. This game was the original Super Mario Bros. and it single-handedly sold millions of NES systems. Over the next five years Nintendo...
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New Super Mario Bros. Guides
Guide Best Super Mario Games Of All Time
Where does Mario Wonder rank?
What's the best Mario game ever? Where do you even begin to rank all the Mario games? Let's face it, any of the top 10 could justifiably take the top spot. Any of them could easily and understandably be somebody's 'best game of all time', and there'll always be someone who believes the series peaked with The Lost...
New Super Mario Bros. News
Soapbox It's Time For Mario's Weird Minigames To Make A Comeback
The Mansion always wins
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over. Today, Jim's after some more bitesize Mario weirdness, which he got his fix of on the DS... Super Mario Bros. Wonder was great. It had elephants, it had sweet little blobs of...
Poll Box Art Brawl - Duel: New Super Mario Bros.
Let's-a vote
It's the weekend and that can mean only one thing — yes, it's time for another edition of Box Art Brawl! Before we dive into this week's contestants, let's take a look at how things played out last time. Celebrating the release of Sabotage's excellent RPG Sea of Stars, we took a look at the cover variants from around the world, with...
Talking Point Is Super Mario Bros. Wonder Really A Departure From The 'New' Series?
Out with the New?
Nintendo confirmed rumours during the June 2023 Nintendo Direct that a brand new 2D Super Mario game will be making its way to Switch, and the world felt a little bit brighter, if only for a moment. Yes, Super Mario Bros. Wonder will be launching on October 20th, 2023, and many folks immediately noticed that not only is this the...
Random YouTuber Speedruns Touching Grass (In Every Mario Game)
Ground theme
"Touch grass" has become the rallying cry for angry people on the internet, and it's most often levelled at gamers. It's shorthand for "go outside", or simply "oh my god the thing you're complaining about is SO TERMINALLY ONLINE that you really should go and do something that isn't sitting at your computer yelling at strangers on the...
Talking Point New Super Mario Bros. Is 15 Years Old, And It's Still Fantastic
Celebrating Mario's big 2D comeback on its anniversary
It’s quite funny to consider that the highest-selling Nintendo DS game of all time - shifting in excess of 30 million copies worldwide – is still a title I’d consider to be under-rated. If anything, it’s respected as the formative entry in a divisive series that’s considered to never...
Random Everyone Loves Scripulous Fingore, The Fictional Super Mario Character
Just call me a Scripulous fan-gore
Scripulous Fingore, as we all know, is the best character in New Super Mario Bros. But did you know that the pointy-fingered chap also appears in the files of Paper Mario: Color Splash, Yoshi's Island, and Super Mario World? Of course you did! Everyone knows everything about Scripulous Fingore, because he is...
Random People Are Making Really Awful Fart Remixes Of Mario Music On TikTok
Whyyyyyyyyyyyy
Gen Z social media platform TikTok can be wonderful, and a carefully-curated For You Page can consist of bread recipes, comedy routines, and Hank Green telling you about why you shouldn't eat grass. But TikTok can also be a wasteland of cursed content that combines nonsensical memes with dance routines, because we're all just really...
Video Speedrunner Completes New Super Mario Bros. In Half An Hour With No Power-Ups
Smashing a world record in the process
Most of us love Super Mario games, and many of us would consider ourselves to be fairly decent at them, but completing an entire game in around half an hour without using a single power-up is going way beyond the skill level we could ever hope to possess. Amazingly enough, though, that is exactly...
News Fans Have Created a 'Newer' Super Mario Bros. DS
Over 10 years after the original
With all of the hype surrounding Super Mario Odyssey over the last few months, you'd be forgiven for getting so caught up in the wonder of our favourite plumber's 3D adventures that his 2D outings may have been pushed to the back of your mind. For some very dedicated fans, however, this couldn't be further from the...
Rumour Nintendo Releasing New Super Mario Bros. On The Nvidia Shield In China
Cracking the big one?
It could be that Nintendo's relationship with Nvidia goes beyond simply working together on the Switch; if a report emanating from China is to be believed, Nvidia has been given permission to release some of Nintendo's older games on its Shield hardware. The report was brought to light by industry analyst Daniel Ahmad:
About The Game
Twenty years after Nintendo's biggest franchise was born, the Mario Bros.® return in a dazzling, all-new platformer sure to set players' fingers twitching.
Fans from Mario's classic days will see their dreams answered in this return to the Mushroom Kingdom, while a new generation of Mario™ players will learn what true platforming greatness means.
Jump, bounce and power-up through visually stunning side-scrolling worlds filled with Mushroom Kingdom madness. Mushrooms make Mario ultra-tiny or ultra-huge, and new items like the Blue Shell (which transforms Mario into a spinning shell that wipes out enemies) will keep players on their toes.
The worlds are swarming with classic enemies like Goombas and Koopas, but watch out for new foes, big bosses and unbelievable challenges. As Mario and Luigi, two players can battle for stars on specially designed levels over local wireless. The game won't end until one bro. reigns supreme.
Game Storyline: Bowser and Bowser Jr. have kidnapped Princess Peach again, and only Mario can save her.
Characters: Mario, Luigi, a ton of Mushroom Kingdom enemies, both new and old, Peach, Bowser and Bowser Jr.
How to progress through the game: Run, jump and battle enemies through multiple levels in each world. Every time players finish one world, they can move onto the next, but each level features impediments in the forms of fortresses, Hammer Bros. and bosses. After defeating the boss of each world, players can move on to the next, culminating in the final fight in the last world.
Special powers/weapons/moves/features: Mario and Luigi can do all kinds of jump maneuvers: increasingly high triple jumps, wall jumps and high bounces off enemies.
Mario also can use power-ups like Mushrooms (grow big), Fire Flowers (throw fireballs), Starmen (become invincible), Blue Shells (turn into a speedy, blue Koopa shell) and other mushrooms that make him tiny or huge.
In addition to the main game and the wireless two-player mode, players also can use the touch screen to play tons of minigames (either by themselves or over DS Local Area Network with 1 to 4 players via DS Download Play). These include card games, target-bopping-type games and much more.
Comments 21
This Game Was The Jewel Of The DS. I paid $190 for the DS and this game, not to mention the free Nintendo(g)s Best Friends. Worth Every Penny.
I LOVE New Super Mario Bros. DS! It's supposed to come out for Wii so i'm going to get it for cristmas.
Really fun bet it getts pretty hard!
very fun game
I have this game on the DS. It really is good. But kinda a bit short and easy compared to the other Mario games. But still a great game and highly recommended.
Final score for me: 9.5/10
The gameplay is great. But the Wii version has a much better gameplay experience. I still recommend you get this version, it's really that great.
Wii and ds are different, but ds hass mega shroom, wii has ice floower, hat, yoshi, mini shroom(as does ds) who knows what else. ds has great minigames, though
I don't know if I should get this...
New Super Mario Bros. (DS) - 9.5/10
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) - 10/10
im going to do something i hate to do for this game. clean the house and mow the yard
Great game! But kinda short. 7.5/10
I have every level memorized, every star coin and mushroom house and I'm bored. I wish you could download more levels like in Mario vs donkey kong mini land mayhem. That would be SO SICK!!!!
this game is aaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwsssssssssooooooommmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeee!
This game isnt 4 players...Is it?
@UltraGamer Only on Multiplayer.....
I meant minigames.....
@varia01 Minigames are 4-player, Mario vs. Luigi is 2-player. I speak from experience.
@LuigiSucks Do you have a 2ds/3ds? On New Super Mario Bros. 2, you can pay& download more "Coin Rush" packs.
@FinalFantisiac yes you should
My #1 Most Favorite Video Game of all Time!!
It's a good game, it's level design is not as good as super mario world but there's more unique levels in new
Power ups are, not bad, mega mushroom is cool but useless, mini mushroom is better but still not something you want to use unless there's a secret, I really like blue shell but you don't see it that much in the game.
The fact that you can't move down the camera is sometimes problematic.
Mario's(and Luigi's) moveset is better than super mario world.
Animations are smooth and music is good as always.
And it was disappointing for me when I find out that Luigi has no difference with Mario/-:
But I'm enjoying it, it's a Mario game after all!
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