Super Mario Bros. Crossover

Super Mario Crossover is a crossover platform video game that is based mostly on the game-play of Super Mario Bros. for the NES. Along with Super Mario Bros., the game includes characters from other 8-bit and 16-bit video games.

Mario
Mario plays just like he does in the original game. He is also the only character in the game with the ability to run.

Link
Link bears the most resemblance to how he looked in the original game The Legend of Zelda. With the normal attack button Link will attack with his sword. The strength increases if link gets a power up mushroom, and even more if he gets a fire flower. He can also shoot a projectile when he has a fire flower. With the alternate attack button, link can throw his boomerang which will stun enemies. The range and speed of the boomerang is also advanced by power ups. Another move that Link has is to attack upwards or downwards with his sword while jumping by pressing the up or down direction while in the air.

Bill Rizer
Bill is from the video game Contra. With the normal attack button, Bill can shoot his gun in eight directions. When powered up with a mushroom, his gun has a faster shooting rate and becomes automatic, although the strength of the bullets remains the same. When he receives a fire flower, he gets his spread gun which is shoots multiple bullets per shot, but is not automatic anymore. Bill has no alternate power.

Simon Belmont
Simon is the main character of Castlevania. With the normal attack button he uses his whip, and with the alternate attack button he throws axes. With power ups the strength of the whip increases and the number of axes that can be thrown increases. In a change from the series he originates from, he is capable of double jumping as opposed to a single jump. In version 1.1 Simon's jumping will be improved; you will now be able to control his path through the air.

Mega Man
Mega Man starts play without his helmet, which he gains once he gains a mushroom powerup. He turns red when he gets a fire flower and he breaks boxes just by jumping into them at this point. With the normal attack button he shoots a projectile. Once he has powered up he can charge this up which will kill most foes in one hit. He can also slide by holding down and pressing the jump button.

Samus
Samus can shoot a short range projectile by pressing the normal attack button. With the mushroom power-up her basic attack gains much more range. When she gets a fire flower, she turns into zero-suit Samus and the projectile shoots in a wave motion. She also has the ability to turn into her morphball form and plant bombs that explode after a short time. Currently, she is taller than enemies such as goombas, and as such unable to shoot at them. In version 1.1 Samus will gain the ability to crouch.

Development
The game was created by Jay Pavlina. It took 15 months to create. The game was instantly very popular on Newgrounds where it was first posted. After its first six hours online the game has 12,000 views and had won two awards. He is currently working on an update that will include a new character, Ryu Hayabusa, set to be released in the first two weeks of June. The creator also claims to have many more future updates in the works.