Super Mario All-Stars is a 1993 compilation of platform games for the
Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It contains remakes of Nintendo's
four Super Mario titles released for the Nintendo Entertainment System
and its Family Computer Disk System add-on: Super Mario Bros. (1985),
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (1986), Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988),
and Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988). They are faithful recreations that
adapt the games' original premises and level designs with updated
graphics and music. Parallax scrolling was added, physics simulations
were modified, and some glitches were fixed. Mario creator Shigeru
Miyamoto (pictured) suggested that Nintendo develop the compilation. It
received critical acclaim and is one of the bestselling Super Mario
titles, with 10.55 million copies sold by 2015. Reviewers praised the
effort that went into remastering the compilation's games and
appreciated the updated graphics and music, but criticized its lack of
innovation.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_All-Stars>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1848:
An explosion drove an iron rod through the head of railroad
foreman Phineas Gage (pictured holding rod), making him an important
early case of personality change after brain injury.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage>
1964:
South Vietnamese generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn
Đức staged a coup attempt after being demoted by junta leader
Nguyễn Khánh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_1964_South_Vietnamese_coup_attempt>
1985:
Super Mario Bros., one of the most influential and best-selling
video games of all time, was first released for the Nintendo
Entertainment System in Japan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cardsharp:
(card games) A professional cheater at card games.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cardsharp>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free. They
are free, Aegisthus. You know it, but they do not.
--Jean-Paul Sartre
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre>