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$440 Super Mario Bros. x One Piece Crossover Has Wonderful Hair
19.10.2021
Custom toy company Fat Lane Toys have made this new statue that takes Mario and wonders, like maybe six other people on Earth have maybe ever wondered, what he’d look like if he was also Gold Roger from One Piece.Read more
10 Years Later, We Can't Stop Watching Nintendo Directs
1.10.2021
Way back in 2011, the very first “Nintendo Direct” featured then-Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé in a white, echo-y room promoting the struggling 3DS by talking about how it was getting Hulu Plus and could record 3D videos. “Up to 10 minutes of 3D video can be recorded of anything...
Okay Nintendo, We Helped Fill Out The Rest Of The Mario Movie Cast
24.9.2021
Yesterday, Nintendo shocked the world when Shigeru Miyamoto announced the main cast for the upcoming animated Mario film. But only some main characters and their Hollywood counterparts were unveiled. Surely Nintendo does not need our help with the casting process, but why not have some fun with...
Thirty-Six Years Ago Super Mario Bros. Went On Sale In Japan
13.9.2021
On September 13, 1985 in Japan, Nintendo released one of its most iconic games ever, Super Mario Bros. Designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, it was a smash at home and became the Nintendo Entertainment System’s killer app a year later. The world was never the same. As Famitsu points...
The Latest Nintendo Lego Set Is Super Mario 64 Block
9.9.2021
Get ready to revisit Super Mario 64 with the Lego’s newly announced set. Say hello to Lego Super Mario 64 Block. On the outside, it’s a large Question Block, but inside, there are four different Super Mario 64 levels: Peach’s Castle, Bob-omb Battlefield, Cool, Cool Mountain and Lethal Lava Trouble....
YouTuber Accuses Million-Dollar Retro Game Sales Of Being Scams
25.8.2021
Vintage video games, like factory-sealed copies of The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Entertainment System, have suddenly started selling for eye-popping prices, and a new video documentary claims potential fraud could be a big part of the reason why. It effectively charges...
More People Are Buying Mario Kart Than Nintendo’s Newest Games
5.8.2021
Nintendo’s Super Star isn’t the bright and shiny New Pokémon Snap or even the juggernaut that is Animal Crossing: New Horizons. No, well into the Nintendo Switch’s lifespan in the year 2021, it’s Mario Kart 8 that takes the lead.Read more
1986's Super Mario Bros. Movie Is Being Painstakingly Restored, Now In 4K
21.7.2021
A long time ago, in one of the first Total Recall features I ever wrote for this site, I covered The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach!, the first—and in many ways still the best—Nintendo movie ever made.Read more
A Sealed Copy Of Super Mario 64 Just Sold At Auction For $1.5 Million
11.7.2021
Super Mario 64 is a good game. But would you pay $1.5 million dollars for a copy of it? Probably not. But somebody just did. Read more
Ultra-Rare Zelda Cart Fetching 6 Digits Before Auction Even Begins
6.7.2021
A super-rare version of The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System is getting a lot of attention at Heritage Auctions, where pre-bidding has seen the 1987 NES cartridge surpass $100,000 before the auction’s official July 9 start date.Read more
Luigi Unlocks Lego Super Mario’s Two-Player Mode
22.6.2021
When Lego Luigi officially joins the Lego Super Mario lineup on August 1, he’s bringing much more than his verdant sense of style and slightly smoother mustache. Combining the plumber brothers in Lego land unlocks the possibility of two-player brick-bounding action. Here’s how it works.Read more
Lego Mario Leak Shows Massive Bowser Airship
17.6.2021
On Wednesday, Amazon Australia uploaded a listing for the next big Lego Mario seemingly ahead of its official reveal. It’s a full Lego build of Bowser’s classic airship. While it has since been removed from Amazon, the internet never forgets. Lego fans quickly downloaded and shared images of...
Super Mario Bros. Movie Restoration Adds 20 Minutes Of Deleted Scenes
2.6.2021
For years now, Super Mario Bros. The Movie Archive has been working to obtain and restore a bunch of deleted scenes from Nintendo’s 1993 disaster. That work is now largely done, leaving us with a sort of “director’s cut” of the film that runs for 20 minutes longer than the original.Read more
Last Year Was Nintendo's Most Profitable One Ever
6.5.2021
In 2020, Nintendo saw huge profits with people quarantined at home, playing video games.Read more
Illumination Founder And Despicable Me Producer Joining Nintendo Board
6.5.2021
Today, Nintendo announced that Chris Meledandri will join the Nintendo board as an Outside Director as of June 29.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....
Happy anniversary to Kirby Super Star, the best game ever made
19.3.2021
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend? 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