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That Time Miyamoto Helped A Game By Crouching In It For 20 Mins
8.9.2021
A former Retro Studios developer’s anecdote about working with legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto is too good not to share. It will surprise no one that the Mario creator knows exactly what he’s doing (most of the time) but hearing about how he works in practice adds a whole other layer...
This Is No Ordinary Golf Game
31.8.2021
Some people play golf because they enjoy walking around in comfortable clothes on a warm summer day. Others enjoy the challenge of placing a small ball in a small cup using a stick. In Cursed to Golf, coming to PC and Switch in 2022 from developer Chuhai Labs, you golf to escape an eternity in golf...
Id’s Mario PC Port Discovered In Museum Donation
14.7.2021
There’s a parallel universe in which Id Software, known for popularizing the first-person shooter genre, created PC versions of Nintendo games. In 1990, the studio created a demo for a PC port of Super Mario Bros. 3. That demo is now in a literal museum.Read more
Donkey Kong 3 On PC Was On Some Stuff
11.6.2021
Back in 1984, after the game’s success first in arcades and then on the Famicom, Nintendo let Hudson make a Donkey Kong 3 spin-off for the NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-6601, and Sharp X1 personal computers. It was...not the same Donkey Kong experience.Read more
Town In England Installs Super Mario Pipes, Residents Not Happy
17.5.2021
Local residents in the UK town of Walsall aren’t happy about the 15 giant green planters that have recently been installed in the town center, with many pointing out how they look like the warp pipes found in Mario games. Read more
Super Mario Bros. 2 Japan + Super Mario Bros. 2 USA = My Dream Game
20.4.2021
Programmer and digital artist Sammu recently put out a nifty video showcasing her work combining the two different versions of Super Mario Bros. 2 into a mega-game featuring the mechanics of one and the levels of the other. As a fan of both, I desperately want to play it.Read more
Someone Spent $660,000 On A Rare Copy Of Super Mario Bros. Because Why Not
2.4.2021
Heritage Auctions recently sold another rare copy of Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Entertainment System for an exorbitant amount of money. $660,000, to be specific. This absolutely shatters the record for a single video game auction, which was previously held by a copy of Super Mario Bros....
Walmart's MAR10 Sale is Here, Featuring Mario Switch Games for $39
8.3.2021
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Mario Golf Super Rush Swings Onto Switch June 25
17.2.2021
One of Mario’s most satisfying side-activities makes its Switch debut on June 25 with the release of Mario Golf Super Rush. Read more
Get the Special Edition Super Mario Bros. Game & Watch for $47 and Get Real Retro With It
10.2.2021
Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. | $47 | AmazonRead more
Cactus Props At Super Nintendo World Appear To Be Based On A Fan Game
7.2.2021
It appears someone working on the cacti props at the Super Nintendo World theme park in Universal Studios Japan might have inadvertently built them to look just like some cacti that appear in a New Super Mario Bros Wii fan mod. Whoops!Read more