Gamlet Trivia #7 — 2026-07-09
The answer was Super Mario Bros. — The clouds and the bushes are the same sprite with different colours..
That day's clues
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- The 1985 NES cartridge that revived a crashed American console market almost single-handedly.
- A side-scrolling 2D platformer about running right: stomp waddling mushrooms, dive down pipes, and grab the flagpole before the timer dies.
- Designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka inside Nintendo's EAD division.
- Its hidden warp zones taught a generation that games keep secrets; level 1-1 is still the textbook example of teaching without words.
- Its heroes are two plumber brothers with the initials M. and L.