Super Mario

Happy Birthday, Shigeru Miyamoto. The creator of Mario, Zelda, Pikmin and many more games we love turned 61 today.

Mario Gets Darker With God, Drugs And Booze

‘Gritty’ isn’t a word I normally associate with Mario, but you know what? Polaris makes it work here. This more mature take on Super Mario comes from screenwriter Evan Daugherty, who is also behind the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Oh, and ‘The Addict’ isn’t the only video he’s helped create—there’s also ‘The Fixer,’…

It’s hard to tell who’d win this video game tug of war in digital artist Patrick Ballesteros‘ drawing. The team on the right with all the heavyweight characters or the other group with a curiously evil-looking Princess Zelda. Bonus points for the background characters and for the detailed surronding area. Dayshot is an image-based feature…

A Resume That’ll Get You Any Job In The Mushroom Kingdom

After scrolling through the first level of his video game-themed interactive resume, I was fully prepared to offer Mr. Robby Leonardi any job I might have had lying about. Then I got to level two. Wouldn’t you know it? It’s a damn water level. Save that nautical crap for later, Leonardi! Now I’ve got to…

The Next Great Mario Game

The people who make Super Mario 3D World want you to know that it’s pretty great. Well, of course they do. They created it. Their job is to get us playing and enjoying it. Their thoughts on the latest Mario game are about as objective as a soccer mom’s evaluation of her kid’s athletic performance.…

Can You Name All The References In This Gorgeous Super Mario Art?

Since 2006, over a dozen artists from a Mario forum collaborated on a number of eBoy-esque isometric Mario worlds, like the one you see above—and the results are pretty fantastic. The long, curious history of the Isometric collaborations on the Mario Fan Games Galaxy Forums is documented on this Wiki, if you’re curious—just know that…

Mario Games Are Better When They Change

Do you know Mario? Do you really know Mario? The long and storied history of the plumber (ahem, not janitor) has been a crazy ride through all sorts of changes, new settings and new features. And it’s those changes that make up the core of the games he stars in. It’s also the reason why…

DeviantART artist David De Leon Luis has a slightly different notion of Bowser, Yoshi and Super Mario A Yoshi with T-Rex jaws and of that size would stomp through Mushroom Kingdom with ease, leaving only completely destroyed Koopa castles behind. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related…

Finally, A Super Mario Game We Can All Be Excited About

It’s been a while since a new Super Mario Bros. game looked amazing. Agree? We all respect the New Super Mario Bros. games, right? They’re classic… like Nintendo just baked a great new loaf of bread. Refined… like Nintendo just wrote a new sonnet. But exciting? Not really. That’s where November’s new Mario comes in.…

Super Mario 3D World is a Smorgasboard of Fun New Power-Ups

Cat Mario is Nintendo’s ploy to dominate the internet. Think about it. The internet loves Mario. It also loves cats, especially when they’re doing funny things. So, the feline power-up that Nintendo’s iconic plumber gets in Super Mario 3D World should be prime raw material for GIF creation. And if that doesn’t work, all the…

Hey, look at these snazzy new Wii remotes! The Mario and Luigi-themed controllers showed up during the Super Mario 3D World segment of today’s Nintendo Direct. These Wii Remote Plus peripherals come out on November 1st. Wonder if one of them lets a player jump higher than the other?

Little Details Make This Ninja Turtles/Mario Mashup Great

I really dig fan-made mashups and animations where there’s a little easter egg or a hidden reference to catch every second—like the Statue of Liberty holding a golden NES Zelda cartridge in YouTuber James Farr‘s retro mashup animation above. Following the plot of the classic SNES beat ’em up Turtles in Time, Farr threw in…

The latest screenshot from Super Smash Bros. Wii U, shared by Masahiro Sakurai, raises a few questions. Compared to the other female characters, shouldn’t Samus be much taller and more robust? And what on earth is Peach doing at the end of the line? Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some…

It looks like the Pilotwings stage will be a great one in Super Smash Bros. Wii U Mario probably freaked out when he realized he’s on a plane, chased by The Villager, who doesn’t seem to care much about the heights. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest…

Taking A Chalk Yoshi Into The Streets Is No Laughing Matter

Drawing a realistic 3D Yoshi from Mario Kart with chalk is one thing, but the way the fine folks at the AweMeChannel animated and put him into a real-life street scene is quite spectacular. Check out the video below to see how they unleashed a fast and furious Yoshi on an unsuspecting neighborhood. Mario Kart…

Mario Has An Existential Crisis In This Crazy Rock Opera

I never thought I’d find a rock opera based on Super Mario Brothers exciting. It turns out I was wrong. We went and saw The Mario Opera — the absurdist brainchild of singer/songwriter Jonathan Mann that had a one-night revival at Joe’s Pub earlier this month. In the video above, we talk to Jonathan about…

In this, the year of Luigi: here’s this kind of bizarre, kind of funny fake ‘documentary’ by Nintendo about finding a parkour pro version of Luigi.

Digital artist Fernando Reza added seven new really cool posters to his series, in which Super Mario and the Mushroom Kingdom meet World War II-style propaganda. The series is also available in his store Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we…

Chicago’s L Becomes the ‘Luigi’ Train for a Day

I’m not sure Chicago commuters were ready for those huge, hypnotizing eyes when Luigi greeted them on the city’s L train, rebranded as the “Luigi” yesterday to celebrate the character’s 30th year. He spent the day seeing the city, enjoying its deep-dish pizza, and riding its famous elevated rail line. Nintendo documented the day on…

A Dark, ‘Next-Gen’ Mario Could Look Like This

Created by the people at creative agency 8-Bit Ego, this is what they call a “next-gen” take on Super Mario. In other words, it’s a darker, grittier version of the plumber’s surreal world. The video is fun to watch, and this is an interesting look at something that Nintendo will never, ever make. (For the…