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Shubham Thakur, Enjoying the Mario experience on Android.

Answered May 8, 2016

Yes, the game size is around 31KB. Even today you can get the NES ROM here: http://www.emuparadise.mobi/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_ROMs/Super_Mario_Bros._(Japan,_USA)/57098, which is of the same size.

Modern images render at larger output resolutions. Super Mario and other Nintendo games rendered at 320x240. With smaller resolution, textures and objects were smaller.

If you compare Super Mario to any modern role playing game you will find it's quite inferior in terms of features, although it was a masterpiece of its time. These lack of features made it possible to ship games with that much

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Andrew Thivyanathan, Gamer, Software Developer, Model S Owner

Updated December 26, 2018

(Note: There is a picture in the comment on the question that was originally part of the question. You need to view the picture to get the proper context for what I'm saying below.)

There’s a lot of great information here, but for those that don’t want to get too technical, I think I can illustrate the conceptual basis of the answer for the layman, though it will be an exaggerated simplification.

First of all, my browser says that the image posted in the question is actually just under 30kB (not 410), but the point of the question still remains.

It’s important to note that not all of the informat

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Ashutosh Kumar Gupta, Internet Marketer | Angel Investor | Mentor

Updated January 15, 2018

This is a fascinating question. I read its answer a couple of months ago, “THE EXACT EXPLANATORY ANSWER.” Without wasting any time, let me share it with you.

I want to set something clear here though : we’re not really comparing Apples-to-Apples, so let’s define some technologies first.

How Mario Works

So let’s talk about how the original Super Mario game worked, from an asset perspective.

The original NES console was only designed to output images that were 256 wide by 240 high; meaning that the final image that needed to be displayed to the screen was 180kb in size.

Besides that, the NES only had

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Yannick Caron, studied Psychology

Answered June 27, 2016

Don’t forget that today’s images are higher resolution. If you ever play it on an HD TV or computer monitor, you will notice 2 things: If you use an emulator then the original size of the screen is really really small and if you play on the HD TV which would be full screen then the game will look terribly grainy. However, the caption is incorrect, it is more around 0.5 meg originally. The result of the file is most likely due to modern compression techniques than the actual size of the original file. In fact, now it is even simply 25KB. You can see the same thing with Majora’s Mask emulation a

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Twarit Waikar, B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering,