

3 for MS-DOS in hopes of securing a contract from Nintendo to port the game to PC. Prior to the company’s creation of Doom, id Software created a demo of Super Mario Bros. Ars Technica reached out to Museum of Play Digital Games Curator Andrew Borman for comment, and he obliged with plenty of information regarding the state of id Software’s early 90s demo and even revealed he had played parts of it. 3 was originally reported on by Kyle Orland of Ars Technica on July 14, 2021. The news of this special demo of Super Mario Bros. 3 PC port in a collection of other random donations from a game developer. The museum’s Digital Games Curator discovered id Software’s original Super Mario Bros.

It’s not every day that a museum curator finds a rare bit of history among a random assortment of donations, but that’s exactly what happened to Andrew Borman of Museum of Play.
