Although Super Mario Bros. is a long lived classic video game, it also has many limitations. The most obvious regretful design is: the two-player game mode in this game is actually a two-player game in turn, rather than a two-player gaming at the same time. In other words, it is only after one player dies that it will be another player's turn.

Super Mario Bros. X (SMBX for short) is a very popular unofficial fan-made game made by Redigit (Andrew Spinks - also the creator of Terraria), now owned and managed by the SMBX Forums leaders. SMBX2 (AKA: SMBX 2.0, full name: Super Mario Bros X2, Super Mario Bros. X 2.0) is an open-source expansion of the original SMBX developed by Horikawa Otane from Japan, using LunaLua and PGE Editor.

As Nintendo's first Mario game specially developed for iOS platform (rather than just a parkour edition of SMB, developed using the free Unity game engine), Super Mario Run also became the second annual topic of mobile game after Pokémon Go. In a sense, Super Mario Run is a bit similar to Square Enix's famous but abandoned "GO" series of mobile games. They both, in the premise of keeping the original game art style and basic settings, were specially optimized for mobile devices, and simplified the game operation, in order to attract more new junior players.

Super Mario 3D World (スーパーマリオ 3Dワールド) is a 3D action puzzle game work exclusively for Wii U platform (released in 2013) in the Super Mario series. It mainly drew lessons from the classic stages of Super Mario Bros. 2/Super Mario USA on NES console (released in 1988) and the gameplay of Super Mario 3D Land on 3DS console (released in 2011).

Super Paper Mario (SPM for short, AKA: ???????????) is the 3rd one (for Wii console) in the 5 Mario action role-playing game works of Nintendo's Paper Mario series, published by Nintendo in 2007. The rest are respectively Paper Mario for N64, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for NGC, Paper Mario: Sticker Star for 3DS and the latest work Paper Mario: Color Splash for Wii U.