

Luckily enough, some developers have decided to adapt one of the best platform games of all time to computers, and that's why we can now play Mari0 on Windows, a sort of mashup between Valve's portal and Super Mario Bros.

version for PCīut despite their success, Nintendo has always been reluctant to let Mario and other characters from the saga to visit other platforms, such as PC, although we have seen Super Mario Run on mobile phones recently. is a true video game icon and is probably the most famous Nintendo character who appeared first on arcade machines and NES to then land on all the Japanese brand's video consoles, such as the Super NES, Nintendo 64, Wii, Gameboy or Switch.

However, the release date was postponed further until beta testing had been completed and Guégan was satisfied with the release.Mario Bros. Several teasers and videos were posted and a speculated release date of Christmas 2011 was proposed, this was later pushed towards New Year's Eve 2011. He frequently created blog posts keeping followers up to date with the latest Mari0 developments, including a month-long screenshot marathon of Mari0 updates. After seeing a video on the humor site Dorkly entitled Mario With A Portal Gun, Maurice Guégan came up with the final idea for the game.ĭevelopment began in January 2011 by Maurice Guégan, the lead programmer of. but with the multiplayer element that New Super Mario Bros. The original idea for Mari0 was to make a clone of Super Mario Bros. However, the beta versions of Mari0 SE were spread onto the forums. On August 12, 2015, development on Mari0 SE, the successor to Mari0 was cancelled. Online multiplayer is to be released in a future version. Up to four players can cooperatively play in the game. as well as sets of test chambers inspired by Portal 's Aperture Science, but a level editor, along with different graphic sets and shaders are provided to create new content.

The core game uses the level designs from the original Super Mario Bros. This can be used for a number of gameplay options, often using vertical momentum entering one portal to "fling" the Mario character horizontally out of the other portal, but will also affect enemies and other game elements in similar manners. The game adds the concept of the "portal gun" from the Portal series the player can click with the mouse device on two separate surfaces on the level to create a portal between them. 2D platform game, where the player controls Mario via the keyboard, running and jumping through levels, avoiding or jumping on enemies to defeat them, while collecting coins to earn points towards their score. The core game of Mari0 plays directly from the 8-bit Super Mario Bros.
