Source · Secondary · magazine

Nintendo Power, issue 10 (January/February 1990): The Making of Super Mario Bros. 3

Nintendo Power editors. 1990. “Nintendo Power, issue 10 (January/February 1990): The Making of Super Mario Bros. 3.” Nintendo Power, vol. 10 (January/February 1990), pp. 20-23. Nintendo of America.

Cite as
Nintendo Power 10, The Making of SMB3
Original
https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127
sha256
5eb08718e6e490fe90f37d47290b578b6dff2d5631ca576ab6c04cb6e32b71b3
Archived
https://archive.org/download/Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127/Nintendo%20Power%20Issue%20010%20January-February%201990.pdf
Accessed
2026-10-26
Licence
© Nintendo of America; scan hosted by the Internet Archive
Credit
"The Making of Super Mario Bros. 3", Nintendo Power staff, pp. 20-23; interview material with Shigeru Miyamoto. Scan in the Internet Archive item "Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127".
Notes
Four-page development feature published two months before the North American release. It calls Miyamoto "project head in charge of development on SMB 3", Tezuka "a director and planner of SMB 3", Nakago "coding director on SMB 3", and says Kondo "composed the music for SMB 3". It also names the rejected centaur power-up and the raccoon tail's choice.

Cited on

Claims (2)

Nintendo Power's January 1990 feature on the making of the game names Shigeru Miyamoto as project head, Takashi Tezuka as a director and planner, Mr. Nakago as coding director, and Koji Kondo as the composer. It credits the design and programming to the staff of the Research and Development departments of Nintendo's Kyoto headquarters, NCL.pp. 20-23, "The Making of Super Mario Bros. 3"pp. 20-23pp. 20-23pp. 20-23p. 20Magazine
Nintendo Power's making-of feature says a power-up turning Mario into a centaur was rejected, and the team settled on a tail and flight instead.p. 20p. 20Magazine