The Super Mario series serves as the franchise's anchor video game series with its classic side-scrolling platform gameplay.

Just a few minutes into playing the Super Mario Bros. Wonder demo at Nintendo Live 2023 in Seattle, I knew I was playing something special. For the first time in a long time, a 2D Mario game — 2.5D to ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of Game Rant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...

If you uploaded a Super Mario Maker course with cheap hidden blocks, unfair enemy placement, or just overall haphazard design, I'm sorry to say that Nintendo might have judged you for it. During ...

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 ...

Super Mario Galaxy 2 came out in 2010, but it feels like it was just released, given how sharp, colorful, and well-designed it is even to this day.

In many ways, the shift of Super Mario Bros. Wonder is best represented by its art style. The NSMB games that have dominated 2D Mario for years have used an art style as established by 1996’s Super ...

Super Mario The "elegant design" of Super Mario Bros levels has inspired devs for over 40 years, but it was Super Mario 64's 3D leap that was a "watershed moment" Donkey Kong By smashing together ...

To talk of return to form, it suggests that Mario’s recent 2D outings before this weren’t very good. I don’t think that’s entirely fair, as the New Super Mario Bros (NSMB) games, first pioneered on DS ...

Hardware Super Mario Galaxy Switch pre-orders have landed, and I've got all the US and UK links you need Super Mario Super Mario Bros. Wonder's Switch 2 edition is coming next Spring, alongside a ...

His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every ...

Of course, that distinction is a bit of a swerve from Nintendo. The roster includes four different versions of Yoshi, which definitely helps boost the numbers in Nintendo’s favor a bit. That said, the ...