Nintendo has numerous franchises to its name, with the Super Mario Bros series being among the most successful. The original Super Mario Bros was the pack-in game with every NES back in the mid 1980's, and its addictive gameplay single handedly helped usher in the boom of home console gaming. Naturally with that kind of success, sequels were sure to follow. After a strange direct sequel in Super Mario Bros 2 (which was actually a repurposed Doki Doki Panic), the triumphant threequel Super Mario Bros 3 served as the NES's swan song in 1990.