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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Super Mario series has been with Nintendo for almost 40 years now, ...

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’s 40 year history is a testament to all the different ways you can make a little guy run from left to right across a screen. Nintendo’s line of 2D Mario platformers has gone through three ...

Like with the first Mario movie, the animators at Illumination succeeded in bringing the plumber’s vibrant universe to life, as well as expanding it. Taking inspiration from the Galaxy games and Super ...

If you ask any Paper Mario fan, there are two distinct eras in the 25-year history of the subseries: The golden age of character-driven RPGs, and the more experimental games with simpler gameplay and ...