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 ...

Illumination head Chris Meledandri says the upcoming Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel is for Mario fans of all kinds, and that it's aiming to make its mark as an important fixture in Mario's 40-year ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The face of gaming changed forever when Nintendo released Super Mario Bros. on Sept. 13, 1985 — making a star out of its lead character, Mario. One night, while Miyamoto’s team was working at the ...

It’s Super Mario Bros. Week here on Gameological! In honor of the series’ 30th anniversary, we’re paying tribute the best way we know how: a week of essays and articles devoted to all things Super ...

From the first Super Mario Bros. game released in 1985, to all of the parties and kart races he and and his friends have invited us to play over the years, many of us have spent our lives growing up ...