5 people made the original Super Mario Bros. - all of them were still at Nintendo to ship Wonder 38 years later

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The original Super Mario Bros. on NES was made by a team of five people, and it seems every single one of them is still at Nintendo and was credited on Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

Back in the NES days, video games were small enough to be developed by absolutely tiny teams. Super Mario Bros., released in Japan in 1983, was made by just five people: director Shigeru Miyamoto, assistant director Takashi Tezuka, programmers Toshihiko Nakago and Kazuaki Morita, and musician Koji Kondo.

In an incredible feat of game industry continuity, all five of them are still credited on Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Miyamoto served as supervisor, with Tezuka as producer, Nakago as a special level design advisor, and Kondo as sound director. Morita, meanwhile, is in the special thanks section. With four of the five original devs serving in major supervisory roles 38 years later, this might just be the most incredible piece of developer continuity in gaming history.

Oh, and even though they've been doing it for nearly 40 years, sounds like that's not stopping them from adapting to the times: pic.twitter.com/3WTDQkw7WJOctober 23, 2023

"The people who are making Mario have been doing it in an unbroken streak since most of the creative leadership at other companies today were kids," as Bungie's Max Nichols notes on Twitter. Nichols' tweets put this bit of trivia on my radar, and since then the full Wonder credits have been published on MobyGames, confirming the full roles of all five of those original devs.

Of course, Wonder was made by a much larger team than just those original developers, including some less familiar names in key roles. Most notable is director Shiro Mouri, who despite being at Nintendo for over 25 years, only recently graduated