Super Bowl XXIV coaches; rookie head coach George Seifert took over after Bill Walsh retired following the previous season's Super Bowl. The 49ers finished the 1989 regular season with a league best 14–2 record. The Broncos, who posted an 11–5 regular season record, entered the Super Bowl looking to avoid tying the Minnesota Vikings with four Super Bowl losses as well as the Vikings record of losing three Super Bowls in four years. This game remains the most lopsided game in Super Bowl history. San Francisco's 55 points were the most ever scored by one team, and their 45-point margin of victory was
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels the franchise and a reminder of imbalanced gameplay in Nintendo's history. Luigi received his first distinctive character traits in "The Lost Levels": less ground friction, and the ability to jump farther. "IGN" considered this change to be the game's most significant, though the controls remained "cramped" and "crippled" with either character. The game's poison mushroom item, with its character-impairing effects, became a staple of the "Mario" franchise. Some of the "Lost Levels" appeared in a 1986 promotional release of "Super Mario Bros.", in which Nintendo modified in-game assets to fit themes from the Japanese radio show "All Night Nippon". Journalists