Side-scrolling 2D Super Mario games have mostly followed the same formula for three decades now — to immense success. At first blush, Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. Wonder — the first side-scrolling ...

The Mario & Luigi series first began in 2003 on the Game Boy Advance and became a handheld staple by offering a fun role-playing game twist from traditional Mario games. Turn-based fighting systems, ...

Shigeru Miyamoto has explained that the evolution of technology is what kept Mario fresh. Had videogames been a stationary medium like books, then Mario would have departed a long time ago. "I'm ...

Mixing genres in video games is not an easy task, as it requires a real understanding of them. In video games, puzzles can implement mechanics as simple as they are complicated, knowing that they can ...

Before Mario was Mario, Nintendo referred to him as “Jumpman,” and he was the protagonist who battled Donkey Kong in the legendary arcade game of the same name. The great ape kidnapped Pauline, ...