Super Mario’s 40 year history is a testament to all the different ways you can make a little guy run from left to right across a screen. Nintendo’s line of 2D Mario platformers has gone through three ...

Exactly 20 years and over 30 million copies later, New Super Mario Bros. is still the Nintendo DS game that defines the era for me.

Super Mario Bros. 2 is seen as the black sheep of Mario games series. Released in 1988 for the NES and in 1992 for Japan, some players were sure they had played it before. They’d be correct, as the ...

Marc Deschamps has been writing about video games and popular culture for more than a decade. In addition to Nintendo franchises like Mario, Pokemon, Metroid, and Zelda, Marc also has a passion for ...

Imagine that it’s 1985. You pop Super Mario Bros into your shiny new NES, and you’ve never seen anything like it before. Since you’re used to the Atari 2600 and its simple games, this seems like ...