

For those who aren’t up on their id history, that’s the first-person shooter powerhouse that, to this day, still helps crank out Bethesda-published titles like DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein.Ĭurators so far haven’t reported any solid info about why a Super Mario Bros. Loading up the disk proved the label wasn’t lying, as a PC-based demo version of Nintendo’s 1988 smash hit faithfully displayed the game’s title screen along with a developer credit for “Ideas from the Deep” - the studio predecessor to today’s id Software. As reported by local alt-weekly City Newspaper, museum cataloger Kirsten Feigel discovered a red, 3.5-inch floppy disk among the dusty box full of old-school goodies, with “Super Mario 3” handwritten in blue ink as one of the game titles on its aging stick-on label. Sometime over the summer of last year, someone donated a box of old media to The Strong National Museum of Play, a curator of interactive entertainment based in Rochester, New York. But a newly-reported find of a retro NES classic hints at the PC-based Mario mania that might have been - all thanks to the recent discovery of a demo version of Super Mario Bros.


From Mario to Link to Samus, Nintendo has mostly kept its biggest names at home on its native console hardware over the years.
