I put this together over the course of this year and finally got around to posting about it. It is in fact a VS Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros made its way to fame in the home market with the NES, the Nintendo Entertainment System. Every kid with a gaming console played this game back in the day. What most people don't know is that the VS version of the game is the superior, bigger brother of the Super Mario Bros. This is one game I just had to have.

This cabinet is a Nintendo playchoice cabinet, which is swappable with all Nintendo VS games of that era. I picked this up non-working from the Starlite drive-in raid last year. At the time it had a VS Golf in it. The monitor was going into immediate shutdown when turning on and the sound was barely audible.

The monitor voltage was extremely low causing the shutdown. I did a cap kit on the monitor and replaced the B+ pot. This fixed the monitor right up. Unfortunately the sound on the board was bad, so I had to replace the board. I sold the bad board and the VS Golf chips and picked up a new board and Super Mario Bros. chips. Super Mario Bros. requires 2 CPU's to run, so I had to pick up another one of those also.

Finally to top off the game I installed a new marquee and bezel. All Super Mario Bros. marquees in the wild are faded and yellow, so I purchased a new repro marquee. A bezel for this game never existed. You were supposed to turn the bezel around and just have it black. How boring. Someone created a custom bezel for this game which I purchased and installed. The final product turned out pretty nice. The game is now wedged in nicely with Nintendo row.

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