About Super Luigi Bros

Our story starts in 2001, when Luke, still our webmaster today, set up Super Mario Portal at marioportal.com. It grew into a busy community of fan artists, writers, game makers and comic creators, until personal circumstances meant Luke had to step away in 2005.

On 16 April 2010 he brought it back as this site, then called Classic Mario Bros. Within weeks we had opened a screenshot gallery, finished the cheat sections for every game we covered and welcomed our first featured fan artist. In October 2010 the site was renamed The Mario Bros and moved to superluigibros.com, and by spring 2014 we were going by Super Luigi Bros.

In 2011 we nearly lost the site. Our web host stopped answering support tickets for more than half a year and then vanished, and the next host couldn’t get our database working. After a scary week or two a third host got us running, and by late September 2011 we were back in business, passing 550 visitors a day for the first time that same week.

The move broke a few things, so the following weeks went on repairs: the TV show and font pages came back, the 3DS section was fixed and 75 Super Mario 3D Land screenshots went up. Luke also began rebuilding the Mario Encyclopaedia he had once run on Super Mario Portal.

After a quiet spell the site came back to life again in March 2013. That spring and summer we dug through web archives to bring Super Mario Portal’s fan art, fan fiction and comic collections home, including work by Mariofan9, Mariomeha, GRiM and DeBug. There were no backups, so some of it is gone for good, but what we recovered lives on in our fan sections.

By 2026 the archive had grown past 2,000 pages, and years of moves had left their mark: galleries with no pictures, box art showing the wrong game, dead Flash games and broken links. So this year we rebuilt it:

• Modern game pages. Game pages and console hubs from the NES to Switch 2 now share one clean, mobile-friendly layout.
• Category hubs. Box art, screenshots, artwork, sprites, wallpapers, magazine scans, Nintendo Power and comics each have one page you can browse.
• Restored galleries. 160 screenshot and artwork galleries that lost their pictures in the move from Joomla to WordPress are back, more than 3,000 images in all, and the last missing artwork, sprites and magazine scans were recovered from the old Joomla gallery cache.
• Internal linking. Characters, games, consoles and films now link to their own pages across the archive: nearly 2,900 new links.

Reader reviews, features and our cartoons & movies pages got the same treatment, and the work continues.

• Games: NES · SNES · N64 · GameCube · Wii · Wii U · Switch · Switch 2 · Game Boy · Game Boy Colour · Game Boy Advance · DS · 3DS · other platforms
• Reading: Reviews · Features & editorials · Character bios · Nintendo Power · Retro magazine scans · Mario Adventure Comics
• Pictures: Box art · Screenshots · Official artwork · Sprites · Wallpapers
• Watch & listen: Cartoons & movies · Sound effects & music
• Fan works: Fan art · Fan comics · Fan fiction · Fan-made games · Funny pictures · Mario memories

Super Luigi Bros has always been built with its readers. Since the Super Mario Portal days fans have sent us artwork, comics, stories, reviews and even games, and we still love seeing what you make. Spotted a mistake, got a Mario memory to share, or were you part of the old Super Mario Portal crowd? We’d love to hear from you.

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