The latest platformer to star Nintendo's moustachioed icon combines the clever, three-dimensional level design and graphical polish of the Super Mario Galaxy games with the bite-sized sweetness of ...

Where Super Mario Bros. 3 gave us a rather rigid structure of self-contained maps and levels, Super Mario World is played equally within its levels and the wider world they inhabit.

10 Years Ago, New Super Mario Bros. Made Old-School Cool ... spiritual connection to SMB3 and Super Mario World, though those games had featured much greater flexibility in their maps. ...

Mario teaches feelings: How an AI team added emotion to old-school games A new take on automated AI adds hunger, curiosity, and fear to the Mushroom Kingdom.

Different old-school callbacks have stepped up for each sequel since, filling in this same position in the New Super Mario Bros. template. New Super Mario Bros. Wii brought back the Koopalings and ...

What would South Dakota look like as a map in an old-school Mario game? Miguel Alfaro has the answer. The Peru resident designs maps of countries and states in the style of Super Mario Bros. for ...

In the case of the Super Mario RPG remake, the design is clearly a callback to the cult-classic game and its cute graphics.As many old-school fans know, the SNES original was the first in the ...

Super Mario World and Sonic 2, the rose-tinted specs are off. Super Mario World After his mind-boggling evolution of the Super Mario Bros. series on the NES, Shigeru Miyamoto became gaming’s ...

10 Years Ago, New Super Mario Bros. Made Old-School Cool ... a back-to-basics rendition of Mario. Even its level-progression world map offered only a handful of secrets and alternate routes, ...