Minoru Arakawa started Nintendo of America in 1980 at the request of his father-in-law, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi.

The number of games available at launch for a Nintendo console has varied drastically. The N64 launched with only two games, ...

T he Game Boy wasn't the first handheld gaming machine, but it was one of the most successful ones on its 1989 release. Combined with its successors, the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance, they ...

This week a copy of Super Mario Bros., at first glance indistinguishable from the one gathering dust in your parents' attic, sold for $100,150.

At the same time, 2D Mario games typically offered players "limited choice," which is part of what led to the introduction of Wonder’s regularly swappable badge system and free-roam overworld map.

Having gone in depth about the Wonder effects, also showing some discarded prototypes along the way (including one that would have seen Mario and the entire background turn into real life versions ...

Just a few minutes into playing the Super Mario Bros. Wonder demo at Nintendo Live 2023 in Seattle, I knew I was playing something special. For the first time in a long time, a 2D Mario game — 2 ...

The Super Mario Bros. series is packed full of outstanding games, which means it’s time to take a look back at them and see which ones were the cream of the crop. Here’s our ranking of all the ...

The original Super Mario Bros. on NES was made by a team of five people, and it seems every single one of them is still at Nintendo and was credited on Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

At any point while playing Super Mario Bros. Wonder, players can bring their game online with the press of a button in the main menu. Doing so will unlock several multiplayer features at once.

Although New Super Mario Bros. wasn’t disliked by fans in a general sense, the consensus seems to be that Nintendo has been far more inventive with Wonder, making it a 2D entry that is the most ...