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With the The Super Mario Bros. Movie from Illumination and Nintendo making its debut in cinemas this week, a number of sites have decided to publish their all-time favourite Mario games. The latest one to shoulder the burden is Digital Trends, who have delved through the numerous Mario games of the past and have produced a reasonably solid list. It is good to see the excellent Nintendo 3DS game, Super Mario 3D Land, get the recognition it deserves. What do you make of Digital Trends choices?
Digital Trends all-time favourite Mario games:
- Super Mario 64
- Super Mario Odyssey
- Super Mario World
- Super Mario Bros. 3
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Super Mario Bros.
- Super Mario Galaxy
- Super Mario 3D Land
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury
- Super Mario Maker 2
- Super Mario Sunshine
- New Super Mario Bros. U
- Super Mario Maker
- Super Mario Bros. 2
- New Super Mario Bros.
- New Super Mario Bros. 2
- Super Mario Run
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii
- Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
- Super Mario Land
Digital Trends on their No.1 choice, Super Mario 64:
“Making the jump from side-scrolling 2D to 3D platforming for Super Mario 64 was a risky move for Nintendo and the Mario series, but it succeeded in a way few other games ever had. Mario’s running, jumping, and flipping translates perfectly to the Nintendo 64’s polygonal visual style, with creative levels encouraging exploration and problem-solving in addition to traditional platforming.
Super Mario 64 is one of the few 3D platformers from the 64-bit era that has aged gracefully, and it’s just as playable in 2019 as it was when the Nintendo 64 launched more than two decades earlier, especially now that it was included in the 3D All-Stars pack. Perhaps most importantly, however, is that it was the first mainline Mario game to star Charles Martinet — a role that has been iconic ever since.”