I love the Super Mario series, but like a lot of people, I feel more strongly endeared to Mario’s brother Luigi than Mario himself and so I was delighted when I found out that one of the first games on the Gamecube (Luigi’s Mansion) would feature Luigi as its main character. But that’s not all! Luigi’s Mansion also […]
I have never been to a party where people played Mario Party, but if I did it would probably have been one of the best parties I had ever attended. I consider it to be one of the best multiplayer experiences created by Nintendo and unlike, say Mario Kart (which is also very good) this game is
This is the first game in the marvelous Donkey Kong Country series. It has a strange link to the old Donkey Kong arcade games too; the Donkey Kong of those games is now the Cranky Kong of these games and he has retired. The storyline of the game is quite basic: King K. Rool has had his Kremlings
The second game in the Mario Kart series was released on the Nintendo 64, while the first one was on the SNES. As I’m sure you can imagine, this game is quite a lot better than the previous one in a technological sense, but does that necessarily mean it is better on the whole? The selection of characters
With this game, the Mario series took its first real step into the world of 3D gaming. There had been games in the past, such as Super Mario RPG, which had technically been in 3D, this is the first one to That we would recognise as a true 3D game. What happens is that Mario is invited to
When Nintendo came out with their second home console, the SNES, they also released an exciting new Mario game. Super Mario World is that game. This time the game isn’t set in the Mushroom Kingdom but, instead, in Dinosaur Land where Mario, Luigi and Peach are having themselves a holiday. Of course, Bowser and his Koopalings also happen
I’m sure that everybody’s familiar with the Mario Kart series in one way or another, and this is the game that started it all. In its first instalment, the series isn’t quite what it would later become, but this is still a good game. Presumably due to the limitations of the time, there is only a
This game is the third in the original trilogy of Mario games and, by far, I think that this is the best of them. While the other two (or three) all seem a little bit dated in areas, Super Mario Bros. 3 has gameplay and even graphics that will look fine by today’s standards. This time, Bowser is
After the success of the original Super Mario Bros. of course there was going to be a sequel. Interestingly, there were actually two ‘second’ games in the series, a Japanese one and an American one. The Japanese one was considered too hard for overseas gamers and so the rest of the world instead got a remake of
This is the first main game in the Mario series and the one which properly establishes most of the staples of the series. In fact, it was the first traditional side scrolling platformer game and something of a revolution in the world of video games. The story of this game is the same as
