Mario Kart has been an interesting case study for the evolution of racing games. Launching on the Super Nintendo in 1992, the racing game was a straightforward title that quickly embraced the “easy to ...

Super Mario Galaxy is world renowned among Nintendo games, but titles like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Xenoblade ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Following the somewhat underwhelming Super Mario 3D All-Stars back ...

Melody MacReady is a writer and transwoman (she/her), passionate about all things pop culture-related. From movies to shows to games to comic books, there is not much that she does not enjoy or ...

Super Mario Bros. 2 is seen as the black sheep of Mario games series. Released in 1988 for the NES and in 1992 for Japan, some players were sure they had played it before. They’d be correct, as the ...

After exactly 30 years, Super Mario 64 is still culturally relevant - and not just because it paved the way for the 3D ...

Mario is a game franchise that has learned how to recycle the same premise over and over again and still make each game feel unique. While in some ways it is hard to rank the series, in other ways it ...