This game deserves its crown as Nintendo's toughest challenge.

Though the genre has since exploded, 2D platforming arguably owes its start to Super Mario. And even though it’s been 40 years since the first game came out, few 2D platformers have risen to the level ...

Super Mario Bros. debuted on gaming consoles on Sept. 13, 1985. The popular video game features plumbing brothers Mario and Luigi who are on the quest to save the Mushroom Princess. The game has sold ...

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 ...

World 1-1. We’ve all run, jumped, and brick-bashed our way through that familiar first stage. It seems so simple and second-nature to us now, but in this modern age of iterative entertainment, it is ...

Covering the video games industry since 2017, with experience in news, articles, lists, and reviews (and I blame The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask for that). If you are a fan of RPGs and want a third ...

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 ...