Paper Mario
Turn-based RPGs are not my kind of game, yet Paper Mario has so much charm that I can still adore the game . My first experience of Paper Mario was on the Wii Virtual Console, where I remember getting to a lava boss.…
Mario Tennis
While this isn’t the first Tennis game barring Mario’s name, Nintendo like to pretend that Mario’s Tennis on the Virtual Boy never existed (along with every other game on it). This follows the same formula as Mario Golf – provide a great sports…
Mario Artist Talent Studio
This 64DD software is quite fascinating in that it’s actually an important step in Nintendo’s history. Miyamoto has always wanted to let players create avatars and do silly things with them, even since the Famicom Disk System, and this could have been something…
Mario Party 2
I’m really not the best person to talk about Mario Party. I really personally dislike the board game parts of it, especially the roll and move aspect. That said, I can clearly see that Mario Party 2 is much improved from the first…
Mario Golf
These days, you expect wild and wacky things form Mario’s sports titles, but it wasn’t always like that. In Nintendo’s early days, Mario appeared in sports games that weren’t named after him, with Mario’s Tennis on the Virtual Boy, but it really started…
Super Smash Bros.
Considering it’s humble beginnings, I don’t think Nintendo ever expected Super Smash Bros. to be such an important part of its line-up of games on future consoles. The first game was fairly light on what it contained, but it completely nailed the gameplay…
Mario Party
The start of one of Mario’s most successful – and most plentiful in terms of games – spin-offs. Mario Party is a board game combined with a large amount of minigames. The first one is the simplest, but sometimes simple can be best.…
Yoshi’s Story
Yoshi’s Story is an incredibly cute game that just oozes charm. On a quest to save their magical fruit tree from Baby Bowser, the Yoshi’s journey across a book across six worlds, eating a lot of fruit along the way. In each level,…
Mario Kart 64
Part of me was dreading replaying this. I have a lot of fond childhood memories of Mario Kart 64, but is it’s something that still holds up today? I did find a texture mod that makes the game look incredibly crisp (they re-created…
Super Mario 64
Starting off with a bang, one of the Nintendo 64’s launch titles just happens to be a revolutionary game that’s one of the best games on the system. It didn’t just show the world how platform games could work in 3D, but it…