Super Luigi Bros

Mario Bros Battle Online demo version

  A long time ago, at a website far.. far away there was a great community of game designers, sprite artists and sprite comicers. I speak of 2001-2004 era at marioportal.com. It appears that the scene which I’m told went a little quiet in 2008 is stirring from its slumber, and good, because it was … Read more

New Super Mario Bros. Wii game information, media, videos, trivia and more

New Super Mario Bros. Wii title screen

Wii New Super Mario Bros. Wii Four players, simultaneous co-op, one of the fastest-selling games in history DeveloperNintendo PublisherNintendo Australia12 November 2009 N. America15 November 2009 Europe20 November 2009 Japan3 December 2009 Players1–4 simultaneous Worlds9 + World Coin OverviewStoryGameplay & controlsCharactersThe nine worldsPower-upsItems & objectsBosses & enemiesReceptionTrivia & factsReferences to earlier gamesVideosDownloads Overview New Super … Read more

Super Mario 64

Nintendo 6419963D Platformer1 Player Super Mario 64 The game that taught the world how to move a character in three dimensions — a Nintendo 64 launch title with paintings as portals, 120 Power Stars to find, and a hub-world castle that’s the template every 3D platformer still gets measured against. DeveloperNintendo EAD PublisherNintendo DirectorShigeru Miyamoto … Read more

Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES) game information, videos, enemies, items and trivia

Super Mario Bros 2 as we knew it in the west was a remake of Japanese title Doki Doki Panic

NES / Famicom1988-1992PlatformerSingle PlayerDoki Doki Panic OriginNintendo R&D4Tanabe / Miyamoto Super Mario Bros. 2 The Western Super Mario Bros. 2 — a reskin of the Japan-only Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic — introduced Princess Peach, Toad, Birdo, Shy Guys, Bob-ombs and the iconic pluck-and-throw vegetable mechanic. The brothers' subconscious dream journey through the land of … Read more

Super Mario Bros. (NES) saviour of videogames & Nintendo’s breaker of America

NES / Famicom1985-1987Platformer1-2 PlayersIndustry-Saving ClassicNintendo EADMiyamoto & Tezuka Super Mario Bros. The game that single-handedly revived the post-crash North American video games industry, sold over 40 million copies, defined the side-scrolling platformer genre, and made an Italian-American plumber into the world's most recognisable fictional character. Composer Koji Kondo's overworld theme is arguably the most-recognised piece … Read more

Pinball (NES) game information, Mario & Pauline cameo and more

Pinball on the NES featured a Cameo of Mario

NES / Famicom1984-1986Pinball1-2 PlayersMario & Pauline CameoNintendo R&D1 & HALIwata Programmed Pinball (NES, Cameo) An early NES launch-window pinball game where the unsuspecting Bonus Stage features Mario controlling a platform to bounce a ball through bingo lamps — and rescue a falling Pauline, in one of her very first post-Donkey Kong appearances. Programmed by a … Read more

NES Open Tournament Golf

NES Open Tournament golf title screen

NES / Famicom1991-1992Sports / Golf1-4 PlayersMario, Luigi, Peach & DaisyNintendo R&D2 + HALIwata Directed NES Open Tournament Golf Japan got this game with its honest title: Mario Open Golf. The West got a more generic sports-game name that hid the headline news — this is a fully Mario-starring golf game with Mario and Luigi as … Read more