All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.
NES Game Guide

Princess Peach has become the ruler of the Viva Kingdom, but Bowser is up to his old tricks. He kidnaps a group of celebrities from the All Night Nippon radio station and locks them away in his castles. He convinces Nakano Sunplaza to join him by sending him a letter praising his "eye for business".

Notes

• The Viva Kingdom is named after Viva Young, a show that was running on All Night Nippon in 1986.
• Nakano Sunplaza was famous for organising large groups of listeners to descend on small businesses in areas subject to economic difficulty. These stunts became known as his "eye for business".

Changes based on Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels

All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. is mostly a port of Super Mario Bros., but using the updated play mechanics of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.

• Graphics for the background, ground tiles, Mushrooms and some other items have been updated to their designs from The Lost Levels.
• You choose a Mario Game or Luigi Game at the start. Luigi can jump higher but has less traction than Mario. There is no 2-Player mode.
• If you time a jump while stomping an enemy, you can perform an extra high jump. This was introduced in The Lost Levels and has become a staple move in all later Mario games.
• Cheep Cheeps move on more obvious diagonal paths in the underwater stages.
• In Super Mario Bros., several early stages repeated as later stages with more enemies and shorter platforms. In this game, repeat stages have been replaced with stages from The Lost Levels. The final stage has also been replaced:
• World 5-3 has been replaced with World 4-3 from The Lost Levels.
• World 5-4 has been replaced with World 2-4 from The Lost Levels.
• World 6-4 has been replaced with World 4-4 from The Lost Levels.
• World 7-2 has been replaced with World 6-2 from The Lost Levels.
• World 7-3 has been replaced with World 6-3 from The Lost Levels.
• World 8-4 has been replaced with World 8-4 from The Lost Levels.
• Clearing World 8-4 without using a Warp Zone will take you to World 9.
• Each time you clear the game, a Star is added to the title screen. Once you have at least 8 Stars, hold A and press START to play through Worlds A to D.
• Fireworks no longer go off when you hit the Flagpole when the timer is at 1, 3 or 6. Instead The Lost Levels method is used, where fireworks go off if the last digit on your timer matches the last digit of your coin total. If the number is odd, you get 3 fireworks, and if it's even you get 6. You receive a 1-Up bonus if both digits of your coin total match the last digit of the timer when you hit the Flagpole.

Minor Stage Changes

A number of minor changes were made to existing stages that didn't appear in Super Mario Bros. or The Lost Levels.

• Items in many levels have been moved or removed entirely. In The Lost Levels stages, Poison Mushrooms have all been removed.
• In some stages, blocks, platforms and Fire Bars have been moved around.
• The castle mazes (W4-4 and W7-4) require you to take different paths to clear them.

Nakashima Miyuki was the host of the All Night Nippon Monday show.

Akira Takashi Ishibashi (Taka Aki) was co-host of the All Night Nippon Tuesday show with Nori Take.

Take Ken Kinashi (Nori Take) was co-host of the All Night Nippon Tuesday show with Taka Aki.

Koizumi Kyouko (KYON2) was host of the All Night Nippon Wednesday show.

Beat Takeshi was host of the All Night Nippon Thursday show.

Daisuke Matsuno (Ma-chan) was co-host of the All Night Nippon Saturday show.

Nakayama Tadashi Hide (Hide-chan) was co-host of the All Night Nippon Saturday show.

WA-C: unknown

The unknown final character from Worlds A-C isn't a known All Night Nippon host. It's possible that it's supposed to be Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto.

At the end of the game you rescue Peach in traditional Japanese dress.