Why is Mario’s jump so much more complex than you think? Understand in three minutes

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2023-10-20 08:45:08

It was a small New York carpenter named Mario who was the first, in 1981, to Donkey Kong, performed this video game movement: jumping. The very first game Super Mario Bros., again created by Nintendo and released in Japan in 1985, reused it to lay the foundations for what then became a genre in its own right: the platform game. It became possible to vary the height of your jump by pressing the button for a longer or shorter time, to change direction in the air, to gain speed to go further…

Thirty-eight years later, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the very latest opus released Friday October 20, retains this same range of tools, but with a few new features. In this video, we tell how this game mechanic evolved, but above all the impact it had on the thousands of platform games that followed suit. Super Mario Bros.

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