Going into 1981, Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto was facing a problem. Working on one of his first games ever, he hoped to use Popeye, the famed sailor of 1930s cartoons, to serve as the hero.

Mario, the hero of the Mushroom Kingdom, has happily kept Bowser’s forces from beating down your front door. He has bounced on the heads of more bad guys than Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Bruce Wayne, or ...

The Mario series is one of the most storied franchises in video games. We’ve seen 2D platformers, 3D platformers, and even semi open-world games where exploration is the main focus. The series has ...

Nintendo realized Mario’s potential outside of traditional platforming games pretty early on. The success of Super Mario Kart early in the life of the SNES proved that the mascot was malleable enough ...

Aaron Damron is a Houstonian who loves to write. He is a former intern at the award-winning news station KLTV and a graduate of the ETBU mass communications program. Now he writes at GameRant and is a ...

Nintendo’s long-running Mario series is well-known for having a near-perfect mix of relatively easy levels to bring new players in, and incredibly difficult challenges that will test veteran players.