Wrecking Crew (video game)
| Wrecking Crew | |
|---|---|
North American box art | |
| Developer | Nintendo R&D1 |
| Publisher | Nintendo |
| Director | Satoru Okada |
| Producer | Gunpei Yokoi |
| Designers | Yoshio Sakamoto Makoto Kanoh |
| Programmers | Toshiyuki Nakamura Yase Sobajima Kenji Imai |
| Composer | Hirokazu Tanaka |
| Series | Mario |
| Platforms | Arcade, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Game Boy Advance |
| Release | |
| Genres | Action, puzzle |
| Modes | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Arcade system | Nintendo VS. System |
Wrecking Crew is an action game developed and published by Nintendo. It was first released for arcades for the Nintendo VS. System in 1984, titled VS. Wrecking Crew with a simultaneous two-player mode. It was released as a single-player game for the Family Computer (Famicom) console in 1985, and as a launch game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) later that year.
It was designed by Yoshio Sakamoto and Makoto Kanoh. It is a spin-off of Nintendo's Mario franchise, featuring Mario (and, in two-player mode, Luigi) going through levels attempting to destroy certain objects. A sequel, Wrecking Crew '98, was released only in Japan in 1998 for the Super Famicom, and the game's legacy would continue beyond with appearances from its antagonist Spike in the Mario spin-off Mobile Golf (2001) and the film The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023), and its Golden Hammer appearing as an item in the Super Smash Bros. series.