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 ...

Every so often, we here at the GameSpot offices get into a conversation about games we'd love to see made; titles that just are just begging to be developed and that leave us drooling with fantasies ...

Today marks the annual celebration of one of the most iconic video franchises and characters of all time. What Happened: Mario Day is celebrated annually on March 10. The holiday celebrates one of the ...

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.

First appearing as the protagonist in the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong, Mario was originally called “Jumpman”. He was soon renamed after Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segale, and starred ...

When you think about, it really sounds like a stupid idea for a game. I mean, what was Nintendo thinking? “Let’s just put all of the Mario characters in little karts and have them race and throw ...

The staircase at the Nintendo World Store tells the history of Super Mario. Well, make that the selective history. This staircase, cool as it is, could use some Super Mario World 2. Also, if Super ...

In 1983, Nintendo faced a make-or-break moment. Its first video game system, the Famicom, had just launched in Japan and plans were in motion to bring it to American audiences next. But the move from ...

The list of celebrities that Italy has gifted to the world is definitely quite long: Dante, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci. But, obviously, the most famous of all remains a short and ...

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