What happens when you take a series with a proven track record and add an
instalment to it with a tonne of new features, karts, playable characters and
online features and finish it off in glorious HD….. I’ll tell you what
happens.. you sell over a million units in a weekend.
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
PC · SNES · NES 1993–1994 THE SOFTWARE TOOLWORKS MARIO DISCOVERY SERIES Mario’s Time Machine (PC / SNES / NES) Bowser has stolen history’s greatest artefacts to fill his own museum — and only Mario can travel back through time to return them. An educational adventure across three very different versions, released between 1993 and … Read more
PCSNESNES Mario is Missing! A once in a lifetime (hopefully) edutainment journey DeveloperSoftware Toolworks / Radical Entertainment PublisherMindscape / Nintendo First release1992 (PC & SNES) PlayersSingle-player GenreEdutainment / Platform ProtagonistLuigi (first starring role!) Overview Releases Story Gameplay Locations Videos Reception References Trivia Downloads Overview Mario is Missing! is an educational video game developed and produced … Read more
ARCADE ORIGINALNESATARI 2600ATARI 5200ATARI 7800ATARI 8-BITAMSTRAD CPCC64GBAE-READER Mario Bros. (1983) The first starring Mario title and the debut of Luigi! Nintendo’s 1983 arcade classic — the game that gave Mario his name, his profession, his brother, and his personality as we know them today. Developer:Nintendo R&D1 Original release:1983 (arcade) Luigi’s debut:First playable appearance Players:1–2 simultaneous … Read more
NES / Famicom1983-1986Educational1-2 PlayersEdutainment Spin-offNintendo R&D2Famicom Launch Era Donkey Kong Jr. Math Nintendo's earnest attempt at edutainment: a maths game built on a hacked Donkey Kong Jr. ROM. Players control DK Jr. (or his pink twin Junior (II)) climbing vines and platforms to collect numbers and operators, racing to match the answer on Donkey Kong's … Read more
Game Boy1989Mario’s Handheld DebutGame Boy Launch TitlePrincess Daisy DebutSky Pop & Marine PopSet in SarasalandNintendo R&D1 Super Mario Land A 2D action platformer for the Game Boy, released as a launch title in 1989. It is the first Super Mario game released for a handheld console and the fifth entry in the series (the fourth … Read more