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 ...

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 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 ...

While the Virtual Boy remains something of a cautionary tale, its games weren’t a complete waste of time and space. You’d certainly hope so, considering only 22 games released for the thing in total.