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Gen Z grew up on the 2010s gaming boom, and now they’re walking away from $70 AAA games to replay Super Mario Bros.

In the Super NES era, Nintendo’s first-party games were accompanied by gorgeous instruction manuals, filled with bright visuals, background information, and tips and hints. These days, instruction ...

Devin Friend is a graduate of McNeese State University with a bachelor's degree in creative writing. Starting from the day that he played Super Mario Kart on a Super Nintendo that he received as a ...

Article Summary Mario & Wario debuts outside Japan, now fully translated for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind joins the retro library on the Switch ...

Mario Day 2024 has come and gone, and while Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door and the Mario movie sequel got most of the attention, Nintendo snuck another announcement in the mix. Two of the best ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Super Mario Kart Featuring Retro HD & CDX Well it looks like Retro and Mario are both back at it again and it appears that Retro will be having some new ...

Remember playing the original Super Mario Bros. on the Super Nintendo? You don’t? Ah! Well. Nevertheless. The hosts of the television program BBC Breakfast interviewed Nick Poole, the head of UKIE ...

Super Mario Strikers — or Mario Smash Football, as it's known in Europe — is joining Nintendo Switch 2's Nintendo Switch Online GameCube library next week. It's the first game to have been added to ...

Which retro video game console is best? As video games continue to develop rapidly, games of yesterday grow in nostalgic popularity. In earlier years, the competition between gaming platforms caused ...

Early Super Bowl promo for Nintendo’s film teases some unexpected nods to classic Mario games and eras, as well as an old-school console in the movie’s world. Early Super Bowl preview reveals new ...

by Chris Harper — Monday, November 24, 2025, 08:36 PM EDT It's an interesting time in the retro gaming world. Thanks to ongoing decompilation efforts, games formerly exclusive to a given platform are ...