A copy of the PC Super Mario Bros 3 appears that Id Software tried to impress Nintendo with
The parents of DOOM and Quake created a tech demo that eventually morphed into Commander Keen.
If you are a student of video game history, you probably already know it, but id Software worked 30 years ago on a PC adaptation of Super Mario Bros. 3 capable of impressing Nintendo itself. However, it did not have a green light for its launch in compatible. An industry curiosity that is now making news again because a copy of this project has been sent to the Strong National Museum of Play in New York, home of the Video Game Hall of Fame .
Id Software tried to sell the prototype to Nintendo, but the idea was scrapped.To know this development you have to go to the origins of the company responsible for DOOM and Quake, when even these classics had not yet seen the light and Id Software was still known as Ideas from the Deep . The team founded by, among others, John Carmack and John Romero sought to establish a place in the sector, and for this they thought of bringing one of Nintendo’s greatest successes to MS-DOS, having to devise a scrolling algorithm on the fly ( or displacement) much more advanced than what was seen at the time on the platform, more used to fades in black among other practices.
Id Software took advantage of this technology to release Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons in the late 1990s. From there, the rest is history: the firm launched Wolfenstein 3D in 1992 and Doom in 1993, revolutionizing the action-shooter genre as we know it, and becoming one of the most veteran studios in the sector, now in the hands of from Xbox Game Studios following the purchase of Bethesda .
Going back to Super Mario Bros. 3, Id Software coded the game in just one week in order to sell it to Nintendo. Despite this, the parents of The Legend of Zelda rejected the idea, more focused, as usual, on releasing software only for their consoles. Now, luckily, a copy of this rare bird will be preserved in the Strong National Museum of Play as part of a collection donated anonymously to the museum, allowing researchers to visit and play it in the future.
However, the existence of the video game was already well known and on the web we can find some videos showing the masterful work of Id Software. From GameSpot they remember that the story of id Software will be brought to the small screen soon through a series of Masters of Doom . As for Super Mario Bros. 3, we recently echoed the sale of a sealed copy of the platform for $ 156,000 at auction , a record.
