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 ...

Over the course of the Mario Kart series, drifting has gone from a minor skill to a mandatory ability to win races.

The Mariofranchise has had a great transition into 3D, with constant entries that are all killer and no filler. With the ...

As I state in my author bio, I have “been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins for the holidays at a tender age.” I’m ...

It is impossible to ignore the impact that Mario and his friends (and enemies) have had on the gaming zeitgeist. Mario has ...

Super Mario Super Mario Bros speedrunner is now just 11 frames away from the absolute perfect playthrough of the 40-year-old classic, after beating the world record for the third time this year Super ...

Though the genre has since exploded, 2D platforming arguably owes its start to Super Mario. And even though it’s been 40 years since the first game came out, few 2D platformers have risen to the level ...

Unlike other popular brands from the 1980s, Super Mario has endured, with more iterations of the game offered continually. Like other forms of video games, Super Mario commands various cognitive and ...

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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 ...