Mario Bros.​ (マリオブラザーズ, Mario Burazāzu) is an arcade game developed and published by Nintendo in 1983. It was co-developed by Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of the Mario franchise, and Gunpei Yokoi. It is a follow-up to Donkey Kong and stars Mario, who was previously named "Jumpman". It has been commonly featured as a minigame in the Super Mario Advance series and other games. Same as Donkey Kong, Mario Bros. has been ported and re-released for multiple platforms and consoles. In this game, Mario is now portrayed as a plumber (instead of a carpenter) who, along with his brother Luigi, has to defeat creatures that have been coming from the sewers below New York. The gameplay focuses on Mario's extermination of pests in the sewers by flipping them on their backs and kicking them away. The ori