Which came 1st?

Thats kinda what I thought also until I read The First Quarter by Steven L Kent where he states just the opposite...
 
It's hard to say. NES Mario was released in february of '86. The title screen of the arcade version says '86... so unless it came out in january or February, I'd say the NES version was first. Plus since the arcade version is harder, I'd say that would lean towards it being an improvement over the nes version, meaning it would have been later.
 
who forgets the motherland?!

I wondered this myself once, and came to the same conclusion as the good Dr. above. Home version of SMB was indeed on the Famicom long before it was ever a glimmer in a Sanyo EZ :)
 
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