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Super Mario Bros. 3
Mario is seen flying using the "Raccoon Mario" power-up over a yellow/gold background. The Game's logo appears on the top and the game's tagline appears on the bottom.

North American box art, depicting Mario flying with a raccoon cap

Developer(s) Nintendo R&D4
Publisher(south) Nintendo
Director(southward)
  • Shigeru Miyamoto[four]
  • Takashi Tezuka[5]
Producer(s) Shigeru Miyamoto
Designer(southward)
  • Shigeru Miyamoto
  • Takashi Tezuka
  • Katsuya Eguchi
  • Hideki Konno
  • Kensuke Tanabe
Developer(due south) Toshihiko Nakago
Creative person(s)
  • Takashi Tezuka
  • Hideki Konno
  • Hiroyuki Kimura
  • Yōichi Kotabe
Composer(southward) Koji Kondo
Series Super Mario
Platform(s) Nintendo Amusement System, Arcade (PlayChoice-10), Game Boy Advance
Release Famicom
  • JP: October 23, 1988[1]
PlayChoice-10
  • NA: July 15, 1989
NES
  • NA: February 12, 1990[three]
  • PAL: August 29, 1991[2]
Genre(s) Platform
Mode(s) Unmarried-thespian, multiplayer

Super Mario Bros. 3 [a] is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Information technology was released for home consoles in Japan on Oct 23, 1988, in North America on Feb 12, 1990 and in Europe on Baronial 29, 1991. It was adult by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development, led by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka.

Players command brothers Mario or Luigi, who must save Princess Toadstool and the rulers of vii dissimilar kingdoms from the antagonist Bowser. As in previous Mario games, they defeat enemies by stomping on them or using items that bestow magical powers; they likewise have new abilities, including flight and sliding downwardly slopes. Super Mario Bros. 3 introduced many elements that became Super Mario staples, such every bit Bowser'due south children (the Koopalings) and a world map to transition between levels.

Super Mario Bros. 3 was praised by critics for its challenging gameplay and is listed as i of the greatest video games of all time. It is the third-best-selling NES game, with more than 17 million copies sold worldwide. Information technology also inspired an animated television series, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. three, produced by DiC Entertainment.

Super Mario Bros. 3 was remade for the Super NES equally a role of Super Mario All-Stars in 1993 and for the Game Boy Advance as Super Mario Advance four: Super Mario Bros. 3 in 2003. It was rereleased on the Virtual Console service on the Wii U and 3DS, and was included on the NES Classic Mini. On September 19, 2018, it was rereleased on the Nintendo Switch Online service with added netplay.

Gameplay [edit]

Super Mario Bros. 3 is a 2-dimensional, side-scrolling platform game in which the player controls either Mario or Luigi. The game shares similar gameplay mechanics with previous games in the series — Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2 in Japan, and Super Mario Bros. 2 internationally — while introducing several new elements. In addition to the running and jumping found in previous games, the player can slide downwards slopes, choice up and throw special blocks and freely climb vines. Mario can now also wing and float with the Super Foliage and the Tanooki Suit.[vi] The game world consists of eight kingdoms, each subdivided into multiple levels. The eight worlds characteristic distinct visual themes: for example, the second globe, "Desert Country" (or "Desert Hill" in Japanese and North American PRG0 versions), contains sand-covered levels with pyramids, while the levels in the quaternary globe, "Giant Country" ("Big Island"), comprise obstacles and enemies twice their normal height and width.[seven]

The role player navigates through the game via ii game screens: an overworld map and a class. The overworld map displays an overhead representation of the electric current kingdom and has several paths leading from the world's entrance to a castle. Paths connect to activity panels, fortresses, and other map icons, and allow players to take different routes to reach the kingdom's goal. Moving the on-screen grapheme to an activeness panel or fortress volition permit access to that course, a linear stage populated with obstacles and enemies. The majority of the game takes place in these levels, with the player traversing the stage by dashing, jumping, flight, swimming, and dodging or defeating enemies.[8] [ix] Players offset with a certain number of lives and may gain boosted lives by picking up green spotted one-Up mushrooms hidden in bricks, or by collecting 100 coins, defeating several enemies in a row with a Koopa shell, or bouncing on enemies successively without touching the ground. Mario and Luigi lose a life if they take damage while small, fall into lava or falling into a abysmal pit, or run out of time. The game ends when all lives are lost, although the player tin continue from the last level played by selecting "Continue". Selecting "Continue" volition set the player back to the outset of the overworld map, and gain all their lives back.

Completing stages allows the player to progress through the overworld map and to succeeding worlds. Each world features a last stage with a boss to defeat. The first seven worlds feature an airship controlled by one of the Koopalings, while the role player battles Bowser in his castle in the eighth world equally the Final Dominate. Other map icons include big boulders and locked doors that impede paths. Mini-games and bonus screens on the map provide the actor a gamble to obtain special power-ups and additional lives. Power-ups obtained in these mini-games are stored in a reserve, and can be activated past the actor from the map screen.[8] [nine]

In addition to special items from previous games similar the Super Mushroom, Super Star, and the Fire Flower, new power-ups are introduced that provide the player with new options. The Super Leaf and Tanooki Suit give Mario raccoon and tanooki appearances respectively, allowing him to wing for a short period of time. The Tanooki Adjust likewise enables him to turn into Statue Mario to avoid enemies for a short period of time. Irresolute into a Tanooki statue while jumping results in Mario pounding the ground and killing whatever enemies are direct nether him; this is the first appearance of the now standard "ground pound" movement in the Mario series.[10] The new "Frog Suit" highly increases the character's underwater speed and agility, and boosts jumping height on land. Another new adjust, the Hammer Accommodate, gives Mario the advent of the Hammer Bro. enemy and allows him to throw hammers at enemies and resist fire attacks when crouching.

Super Mario Bros. 3 includes a multiplayer selection which allows two players to play the game by taking turns at navigating the overworld map and accessing stage levels. The showtime player controls Mario, while the other controls Luigi (a palette swap of Mario). Through this mode, players can access several mini-games, including a remake of the original Mario Bros. arcade game, in which one player has the opportunity to steal the cards of another, only may lose their plow if they lose the mini-game.[eleven]

Plot and characters [edit]

The plot of Super Mario Bros. 3 is described in the instruction booklet. The Mushroom Globe, the setting of the game, is invaded by the Koopalings, Bowser's 7 children. The Koopalings conquer each of the seven kingdoms past stealing its king'southward magical wand and using it to transform him into an creature. Princess Toadstool sends Mario and Luigi to travel to each kingdom, retrieve the stolen wand, and restore its rex to normal.[12]

Mario and Luigi receive notes and special items from Princess Toadstool after rescuing each of the first six kings. When they rescue the seventh rex, they instead receive a note from Bowser, boasting that he has kidnapped Toadstool and imprisoned her within the castle of his own realm, Night State.[13] The brothers travel through Dark Country, enter his castle, and defeat Bowser in a battle. The game ends with Princess Toadstool being freed from the castle.[14]

According to Shigeru Miyamoto, Super Mario Bros. 3 was conceived equally a phase play. The title screen features a phase mantle existence fatigued open, and in the original NES version, in-game objects hang from off-screen catwalks, are bolted to the groundwork, or bandage shadows on the skyline. When Mario finishes a level, he walks off the stage.[fifteen]

Development [edit]

Beginning development before long afterwards the 1986 release of the Famicom Disk Organization's Super Mario Bros. 2,[16] Super Mario Bros. 3 was developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development, a squad that consisted of more than than x people. The game took more than two years to consummate.[17] [18] The evolution upkeep, when converted to United states of america dollars, amounts to well-nigh $800,000[19] to $1.three million [20] ($1.viii–3 million adjusted for aggrandizement). Programmer Shigeru Miyamoto served equally manager. He worked closely with the designers and programmers during the conceptual and last stages, encouraging a gratis interchange of ideas. Miyamoto considered intriguing and original ideas to be key to creating a successful game.[xviii] Originally, the team intended for the game to be played from an isometric point of view, just the developers found that this fabricated it too difficult to position jumps, so the game was changed to the second side view used in previous games. Some isometric elements remain, such as the checkered floor present in the championship screen.[16] All pixel fine art for the game was drawn using Fujitsu FM R-50 HD business computers while HP 64000 mainframe computers with a 6502 processor card was used to write and test code.[21]

The game was designed to appeal to players of varying skill levels. To assistance less-to no skill players, bonus coins and 1-ups are more abundant in earlier worlds, while later worlds present more complex challenges for experienced players. In the two-player style, the players alternate turns to residuum play fourth dimension.[xviii] The development team introduced new ability-ups and concepts that would give Mario the appearance of different creatures as a means of providing him with new abilities. An early thought changed Mario into a centaur, but was dropped in favor of a raccoon tail with limited flying ability.[17] [18] Other costumes with dissimilar abilities were added to his repertoire, and levels were designed to take advantage of these abilities.[22] New enemies were included to add together diversity to the game, along with variants of previous enemies, such every bit Goombas, Hammer Bros., and Koopa Troopas.[17] [22]

Some of the enemies designed for Super Mario Bros. iii were inspired by the team'due south personal experiences. For case, the Chain Chomp enemy, a barking tethered ball and concatenation creature with optics and teeth that lunges at the actor when in close proximity, was fatigued from Miyamoto'south early on life, in which a domestic dog lunged at him, but was pulled away from him.[18] Bowser'south children, the Koopalings, were designed to exist unique in advent and personality; Miyamoto based the characters on vii of his programmers as a tribute to their work and efforts.[17] [eighteen] Nintendo of America named the Koopalings after well-known musicians: for example, the characters "Ludwig von Koopa" and "Roy Koopa" are named later on Ludwig van Beethoven and Roy Orbison respectively.[23]

The grapheme graphics were created with a special graphics machine ("Grapheme Generator Computer Aided Pattern") that generated a collection of the graphical shapes used in the game. Shapes in the collection were assigned numbers that the game's code used to access and combine to form consummate images on the screen in real fourth dimension.[eighteen] The Super Mario Bros. 3 cartridge uses Nintendo's custom MMC3 ASIC to raise the NES capabilities. The MMC3 bit allows for animated tiles, extra RAM for diagonal scrolling, and a scan line timer to split the screen. The game uses these functions to split the game screen into 2 portions, a playfield on the pinnacle and a condition bar on the bottom. On the overworld map, the status bar doubles every bit an inventory for items and ability-ups. This allows the superlative portion to scroll as the grapheme navigates the stage while the bottom portion remains static to display text and other information.[24]

Similar its predecessors, the music in Super Mario Bros. three was equanimous past Koji Kondo, who composed several new songs also every bit returning melodies from Super Mario Bros. According to Kondo, who had composed the music in Super Mario Bros. based on what he believed fit the levels rather than focusing on composing a specific genre of music, the game was the most hard game for him to etch.[25] Kondo experimented with several different genres of music, unsure of how to follow upwardly the music from the first game subsequently hearing from several people that it sounded a lot like Latin or fusion music,[16] and came upward with several different melodies throughout its development before settling on what ultimately made it into the game.[25] The development team decided that music on the title screen was unnecessary.[25]

During 1988, a shortage of ROM fries,[26] along with Nintendo'southward preparation of Super Mario Bros. 2, prevented Nintendo from performing various N American game releases co-ordinate to their original schedules. The delayed products included Super Mario Bros. three and, according to Nintendo Power, Zelda II: The Hazard of Link.[27] The delay, however, presented Nintendo with an opportunity to promote the game in a feature motion picture. In 1989, Tom Pollack of Universal Studios approached Nintendo of America's marketing department well-nigh a video game movie; inspired by Nintendo video game competitions, Pollack envisioned a video game version of Tommy for younger audiences. Nintendo licensed its products for inclusion in what would become the picture The Wizard. During the flick's product, the filmmakers requested and were granted approving from Nintendo regarding the script and the portrayal of the company's games.[28] Super Mario Bros. three was 1 of the products shown in the flick and was used in a concluding scene involving a video game contest.[28] [29] The film was released in December 1989, between the home console releases of the game in Nippon and North America.[xxx]

The marketing budget for Super Mario Bros. 3 was $25 one thousand thousand,[31] bringing the game's full development and marketing upkeep to $25.8 million ($59 1000000 adjusted for inflation).

Reception [edit]

Super Mario Bros. iii was lauded by the video game press. It was widely considered to be one of the best games released for the NES. Computer and Video Games editors Paul Rand, Tim Boone and Frank O'Connor awarded the game a 98% score, praising information technology for its gameplay, replayability, sound, and graphics. Boone commented that the game is nearly flawless in its utterly "stupendous incredibility and absolutely impossible to put down for anything less than a burn down warning and even then you detect yourself weighing down the odds." Rand chosen Super Mario Bros. 3 the all-time video game ever, labeling it "the Mona Lisa of gaming" and stating that it is "astoundingly brilliant in every way, shape, and form." O'Connor stated that the game "makes Sonic the Hedgehog look like a wet Sun morning and even gives the Super Famicom's Super Mario World a run for its money."[34]

The Japanese publication Famitsu gave it a 35 out of 40.[37] Julian Rignall of Mean Machines referred to Super Mario Bros. iii as the "finest video game" he had always played, citing its addictiveness, depth, and challenge. A second Mean Machines reviewer, Matt Regan, anticipated the game would exist a bestseller in the United Kingdom, and echoed Rignall's praise, calling it a "truly bright game". Regan farther stated that the game offered elements which tested the player's "brains and reflexes", and that though the graphics were simple, they were "incredibly varied".[8] In a preview of the game, Nintendo Power gave it loftier marks in graphics, audio, challenge, gameplay, and enjoyability.[9] The items hidden in the game'southward levels, such every bit the warp whistles, were well-received: Rignall regarded them equally function of the game's addictiveness, and Sheff stated that finding them provided a sense of satisfaction.[8] [44]

Criticism focused on particular aspects of the game. Rignall described the audio and visuals as being outdated in comparison to games on the Mega Bulldoze/Genesis and Super NES (the latter platform having already been launched in other regions by the time Super Mario Bros. 3 was released in Europe).[8]

Sales [edit]

Super Mario Bros. 3 became a best-selling game.[22] In Nippon, it appeared at the meridian of the Famitsu sales charts in Dec 1988[45] and January 1989,[45] and became the second best-selling game of 1988 after Dragon Quest Iii.[46] Past mid-1989, Super Mario Bros. 3 had become the 2nd best-selling game in Japan (non-bundled) up until so, afterward Dragon Quest III.[47] Super Mario Bros. 3 went on to go the overall best-selling game of 1989 in Nippon, just to a higher place Tetris in 2d place.[48] It also topped the Japanese sales nautical chart in January 1990.[49] Past 1993, it had sold iv million cartridges in Japan.[l]

In Due north America, the inclusion of Super Mario Bros. 3 in The Wizard served every bit a preview which generated a high level of anticipation in the United states of america prior to its release.[xxx] [51] Levi Buchanan of IGN considered the game's appearance in the moving-picture show as a show-stealing element, referring to the movie as a "90-minute commercial" for the game.[52] The game sold 250,000 copies in its first two days of release, co-ordinate to a spokeswoman for Nintendo.[53] It remained the top-selling game in the Us through April[54] and June[55] to September 1990.[56] In 1990, the game sold more 8 one thousand thousand units.[57] [58] Past 1993, author David Sheff said the game had sold 11 1000000 unbundled units in Japan and the United States, commenting that, in music manufacture terms, the game went platinum xi times.[fifty] In the Us alone, the game had generated $595,000,000 (equivalent to $1,230,000,000 in 2021) in acquirement for Nintendo past early 1992,[20] exceeding the gross revenue of the films E.T. (1982), Batman (1989) and Jurassic Park (1993).[59] The game was also a hit in other regions such as Europe and Singapore.[threescore]

The game had sold xiv million copies by 1995,[61] and 15 million copies by 1998.[62] By 2000, the game had sold more than 17 one thousand thousand copies worldwide, and held the record for the best-selling non-bundled video game for a long fourth dimension.[63] [64] As of 2011, Super Mario Bros. iii was the highest-grossing non-bundled home video game upwards until and so, with a 2011 inflation-adjusted revenue of $1,700,000,000 (equivalent to $two,000,000,000 in 2021).[65] In 2013, GamesRadar reported that the game had sold more than 18 one thousand thousand copies for the NES.[66] Game Informer also reported in their October 2009 issue that the Virtual Console version had sold one million copies.[67]

Awards [edit]

In Famicom Tsūshin (Famitsu) magazine'due south 1988 Best Hit Game Awards, Super Mario Bros. three won the Best Activity Game award.[68] In 1989, Famitsu gave it the award for best activity game released since 1983.[69]

Super Mario Bros. 3 has received universal acclamation from modern critics who consider it one of the all-time games of all time, and has appeared on many top games lists. The game debuted on Nintendo Power 's Top thirty all-time games ever list at number 20 in September 1989.[seventy] It entered the listing's top x a few months afterwards and reached number one in May 1990.[71] [72] Super Mario Bros. 3 remained within the top 20 for more than v years.[73] More than a decade later on, the magazine ranked the game number six on their list of 200 Greatest Nintendo Games.[74] In Baronial 2008, Nintendo Ability listed Super Mario Bros. iii as the second best NES video game, praising information technology for making the series more complex and introducing new abilities that take since become signature abilities in the series.[75] The game placed 11th, backside Super Mario Bros., in Official Nintendo Mag 's "100 greatest Nintendo games of all time".[76] Edge considered Super Mario Bros. 3 Nintendo's standout game of 1989, and commented that its success outshone the starting time Super Mario Bros. 'due south sales milestone; the first game sold forty 1000000 copies, just was bundled with the NES.[77] They lauded the overworld map every bit an elegant culling to a menu to select levels.[78] In 2007, ScrewAttack chosen Super Mario Bros. 3 the all-time Mario game in the series too as the best game on the NES, citing the graphics, ability-ups, secrets, and popularity, summing information technology upward as "just incredible" and stating, "If you haven't experienced this greatness, we pity you".[79] [fourscore] In a poll conducted by Dengeki, the game tied with Super Mario World as the number three video game their readers outset played.[81] GamesRadar also called information technology the best NES game, maxim that while Super Mario Bros. defined its genre, Super Mario Bros. 3 perfected information technology.[82]

In 1997, Electronic Gaming Monthly ranked the All-Stars edition the 2nd best panel game of all time (behind but Tetris), saying information technology "took the serial back to its roots, but expanded upon the original game in every way imaginable. No other game since has been able to recapture the spirit of run a risk and enchantment found in Mario three."[83] The game has been ranked on several of IGN'south lists of "summit games". In 2005, they rated it 23rd among their Top 100 Games, and praised the precise and intuitive controls.[84] IGN editors from the Usa, Uk, and Australia ranked Super Mario Bros. three number 39 in their 2007 Meridian 100 Games, citing Miyamoto'southward "ingenious" designs. They further commented that the game improved on the "already-brilliant concepts" of the previous games with new ability-ups and enemies.[17] Users and readers of the website placed the game high on similar lists: 32nd in 2005 and 21st in 2006.[85] [86] In 2009, Game Informer put Super Mario Bros. 3 9th on their list of "The Top 200 Games of All Time", saying that it is "a game with incredible lasting power that we won't soon forget".[67] This is down i place from Game Informer 's previous ranking in 2001.[87] Border ranked the game #twenty on its list of "The 100 All-time Games To Play Today", calling it "the ane 8-bit game that even so shines today, no caveats required."[88] UGO listed Super Mario Bros. 3 on their list of the "Top 50 Games That Belong On the 3DS", calling it "Arguably the greatest Mario game ever made."[89] GameSpot placed the game on their list of the greatest games of all time.[90] USgamer ranked the game as the third best Mario platformer ever.[91] Super Mario Bros. three ranked 34th on Warp Zoned'due south "Scientifically Proven Best Video Games of All Time" list, a statistical meta-analysis of 44 "pinnacle games" lists published between 1995 and 2016.[92]

Legacy [edit]

Super Mario Bros. 3 is credited for introducing the utilize of overworld maps in the Mario series.

Super Mario Bros. 3 introduced several elements carried over to subsequent Mario games.[76] A like overworld map is used in Super Mario World, Super Mario Bros. DX and New Super Mario Bros., and Mario'south ability to wing has been a characteristic in games such as Super Mario World, Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy.[17] [93] [94] The game's "Super Leaf" item has returned in more contempo Mario games for the Nintendo 3DS, like Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7 and New Super Mario Bros. 2. Bowser's red hair was get-go popularized in the game and has since become a part of his standard appearance.[17]

Through a collaboration between NBC and Nintendo of America, an blithe tv set series, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, was created from September to December 1990 by DIC Amusement. The show aired weekly with 26 episodes and featured numerous characters, enemies, and settings from the video game; the original seven Koopalings are given dissimilar names based on their given personalities and are also given a new age guild.[95] Other Nintendo products have included diverse elements of the game also. Music from Super Mario Bros. 3 appears as a track on Nintendo Sound Selection Koopa, a collection of songs from Nintendo games.[96] The game'south stages and graphics comprise a background theme in the 2006 Nintendo DS game Tetris DS.[97] The Koopalings are as well world bosses in Super Mario World, Mario is Missing!, Yoshi'south Safari, Hotel Mario and all New Super Mario Bros. games except New Super Mario Bros. [98] [99] Boom Blast, another dominate from this game, additionally reappears in Super Mario 3D Land and Super Mario 3D Globe, aslope a boomerang-wielding female counterpart named Pom Pom.[100] Super Mario Bros. 3 is 1 of the games represented as themes in both Super Mario Maker and Super Mario Maker 2.[101] [102]

In the early 1990s, game developers John Carmack and Tom Hall adult an IBM PC clone of Super Mario Bros. iii based on their innovative adaptive tile refresh software that performs smooth, side-scrolling graphics on EGA cards. They demonstrated it to Nintendo leaders, who were impressed with the demo only rejected cloning in favor of exclusivity.[103] Carmack and Hall went on to found Id Software and develop Commander Groovy, a series of platform games inspired by Super Mario Bros. iii. [104] [105] [106] [107] [108] The Super Mario Bros. three demo had not been readily shared, but a working copy was discovered and preserved in the Museum of Play in July 2021.[109]

In April 1993, Famicom Tsūshin (Famitsu) magazine awarded Super Mario Bros. iii a world record for having the most strategy guide books published, with twenty strategy books published for the game upward until then.[110]

At the 2007 Game Developers Conference, Stanford University curator Henry Lowood, along with game designers Warren Spector and Steve Meretzky, academic researcher Matteo Bittanti and game announcer Christopher Grant named Super Mario Bros. 3 one of the x most of import video games of all time, being a member of a "game canon" whose inductees were submitted to the Library of Congress for having "cultural significance or a historical significance".[111] [112] The New York Times reported Grant said its inclusion was due to the game's nonlinear play being a "mainstay of contemporary games", and how it allows the role player to motility backward and forward in levels.[111] On Nov 20, 2020, a sealed re-create with rare alternate encompass fine art featuring "Bros." on the left instead of the heart was sold for $156,000, the most money ever paid for a video game at the time.[113]

Rereleases [edit]

The NES version of the game has been ported to several other Nintendo consoles. It was rereleased in emulation as a downloadable Virtual Console game in 2007 for the Wii and in 2014 for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U consoles.[114] [115] Information technology is i of thirty pre-installed games in the NES Classic Edition panel,[sixteen] and is on the Nintendo Switch Online service.[116]

Remakes [edit]

Super Mario Bros. 3 was included in the 1993 SNES game Super Mario All-Stars, a compilation of remakes of NES Super Mario games featuring updated graphics and sound,[117] which was also subsequently released on the Wii in 2010[118] and the Nintendo Switch Online service in 2020. A Game Boy Advance version, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. three, was released in 2003. In addition to the visual and sound changes from Super Mario All-Stars, this version also includes support for the Nintendo e-Reader peripheral, which allows the player to access new levels and power-ups stored on east-Reader cards.[119]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Super Mario Bros. 3 ( スーパーマリオブラザーズ3 , Sūpā Mario Burazāzu 3 )

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External links [edit]

  • Super Mario Bros. iii (Virtual Console version) at Nintendo's website
  • Super Mario Bros. 3 at NinDB
  • Super Mario Bros. 3 at MobyGames

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