The Super Mario Bros. franchise is one of the biggest series in gaming, with over 200 distinct releases across the mainline platformers, sports-focused spin-offs, and genre reinventions. Despite this, ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Following the somewhat underwhelming Super Mario 3D All-Stars back ...

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 Super Mario Bros speedrunner is now just 11 frames away from the absolute perfect playthrough of the 40-year-old classic, after beating the world record for the third time this year Super ...

As I state in my author bio, I have “been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins for the holidays at a tender age.” I’m ...

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 ...

Chris Littlechild (He/Him) is an Editor and Writer Trainer from the United Kingdom. He has been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six ...

Unlike other popular brands from the 1980s, Super Mario has endured, with more iterations of the game offered continually. Like other forms of video games, Super Mario commands various cognitive and ...

It's hard to believe now, but Mario's jump was a platforming first when he and it were introduced in 1981's Donkey Kong coin-op, and his barrel-smashing hammer attack was equally novel. In his first ...

The Nintendo Switch 2 is very nearly the perfect Super Mario machine, but six games are keeping it from reaching that status. Thanks to backward compatibility and the Nintendo Classics service ...