The one that started it all. Released in 1985 for the NES and the Japanese Famicom, the first and best Super Mario game ever essentially invented the platformer by defining Mario's basic way of ...

The first Super Mario Bros. was released in 1985, a game that helped the industry claw its way back from its crash in 1983. The series is still going strong today, with new entries consistently ...

Like the first one, Galaxy 2 packed all of the charm and childlike wonder expected from a Mario game into an innovative and fitfully challenging platformer, with novel gravity effects and ...

On March 10, video game fanatics everywhere celebrated Super Mario Day ... for his loyalty to his father and for assisting him in his plots to take down Mario. We first met King Boo in Luigi's Mansion ...

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Unlike Pokemon Day in February, Mario Day isn’t timed to coincide with the anniversary of the first game in the series, or anything like that. Instead, the date was selected simply because the ...

A new Mario Kart launch game for the Switch 2 "is very unlike Nintendo," according to former marketers; Krysta Yang and Kit ...

The popular Nintendo video game character Mario first appeared in 1981. He was initially portrayed in the video game Donkey Kong as a carpenter named Jumpman, according to the National Day Calendar.