Mario Bros is an arcade game published and developed by Nintendo in 1983. It was developed by Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of the Mario franchise. It is a follow-up to Donkey Kong, which starred Jumpman, who was a carpenter at the time. He was eventually renamed to Mario. To date, Mario Bros. has been re-released more than 20 times across more than a dozen platforms. It has been commonly featured as a mini-game in the Super Mario Advance series and other titles as well. Mario Bros. has been re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console service in Japan, North America, and some PAL regions. [source:wikipedia]