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Super Mario Bros. (NES) saviour of videogames & Nintendo’s breaker of America

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NES / Famicom1985-1987Platformer1-2 PlayersIndustry-Saving ClassicNintendo EADMiyamoto & Tezuka Super Mario Bros. The game that single-handedly revived the post-crash North American video games industry, sold over 40 million copies, defined the side-scrolling platformer genre, and made an Italian-American plumber into the world's most recognisable fictional character. Composer Koji Kondo's overworld theme is arguably the most-recognised piece … Read more

Pinball (NES) game information, Mario & Pauline cameo and more

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Pinball on the NES featured a Cameo of Mario

NES / Famicom1984-1986Pinball1-2 PlayersMario & Pauline CameoNintendo R&D1 & HALIwata Programmed Pinball (NES, Cameo) An early NES launch-window pinball game where the unsuspecting Bonus Stage features Mario controlling a platform to bounce a ball through bingo lamps — and rescue a falling Pauline, in one of her very first post-Donkey Kong appearances. Programmed by a … Read more

NES Open Tournament Golf

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NES Open Tournament golf title screen

NES / Famicom1991-1992Sports / Golf1-4 PlayersMario, Luigi, Peach & DaisyNintendo R&D2 + HALIwata Directed NES Open Tournament Golf Japan got this game with its honest title: Mario Open Golf. The West got a more generic sports-game name that hid the headline news — this is a fully Mario-starring golf game with Mario and Luigi as … Read more

Donkey Kong Jr. (NES) The plight of one young ape to save his father

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Donkey Kong Jr front box cover for NES

Release dates Australia N/A Europe June 15th, 1987 Japan July 15th, 1983 N.America June 8th, 1986 General information Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System Developed by Nintendo R&D1 Published by Nintendo Players: 1-2 Buy Donkey Kong Jr (NES) on Buy Donkey Kong Jr (NES) on Quick links: Overview / Story / Gameplay & Controls / Characters & Enemies … Read more

Mario’s Picross (Game Boy) gameplay, game modes, Mario character cameos, videos and information.

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Mario's Picross a Japanese puzzle Mario game on the Gameboy

Game Boy1995256 PuzzlesNonogram PuzzlerMario as ArchaeologistPicross Series FounderSGB EnhancedDeveloped by Jupiter Mario’s Picross A logic puzzle game for the Game Boy, released in 1995 by Nintendo and developed by Jupiter. The very first game in the Picross franchise — a 30-year-old series that continues to release new entries to this day. Mario stars as an … Read more

Super Mario Games on the Nintendo DS

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Mario Games on the Nintendo DS header image

Super Mario Games on the Nintendo DS Below are the Mario games on the Nintendo DS that we cover. Visit a games page by clicking its box image below. We feature games with three different types of Mario appearance as follows:- Cameo – a non-Mario game with reference to, or an appearance of Mario or … Read more