{"id":1922,"date":"2021-06-03T12:32:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T12:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2021-06-03T12:32:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T12:32:46","slug":"which-mario-games-is-the-greatest-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/2021\/06\/03\/which-mario-games-is-the-greatest-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Mario Games is the Greatest of All Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mario is perhaps the most famous game series in the world\nand is one of just a handful of franchises that have enjoyed almost universal\nappeal over several generations. In the four decades that Nintendo has been\nmaking Mario games, the Italian plumber has appeared in more than 200 different\ntitles, though not all of them have been as successful as others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In fact, Nintendo hasn\u2019t always been as protective of their\nmost valuable IP as they are today. Several Mario games were planned for\nrelease on the failed Philips CD-i games console, including Super Mario\u2019s Wacky\nWorlds, Mario Takes America, and Hotel\nMario<\/a>, though only the latter was released. A string of Mario educational\ngames were released in the 1990s too, none of which met the same quality\nstandards of titles developed in house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if you ignore these odd footnotes in Mario history,\nthere are still plenty of great titles to keep you entertained for a very long\ntime. If you\u2019ve only played some of the more recent releases, you may be\nwondering about which retro Mario games are worth picking up. Here are some of\nthe greatest Mario games of all time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mario Bros. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Released in 1983, Mario Bros. was the first arcade game to\nbe headlined by the moustachioed plumber. However, this wasn’t his first\nappearance in a video game. That was in 1981, when Mario (who was known as Jump\nMan at the time) appeared in the first Donkey Kong title. Donkey Kong was so\nsuccessful that it is widely regarded as one\nof the best games from the 1980s<\/a>, but it would later stand in the shadows\ncreated by Mario. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Donkey Kong, Mario Bros. was a 2D platformer game,\nthough it looks different to many of the more polished games in the Super Mario\nBros. series. Rather than Mario moving along the 2D map, he remained within a\nsmall area, with turtles appearing out of sewer pipes and dropping onto lower\nlevels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite it being a bit more primitive compared to newer\nreleases, it\u2019s a fun piece of Mario history that\u2019s worth a play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original Super Mario Land for Game Boy was a technical\nmarvel. It showed how a side-scroller game could be just as fun on a tiny\nmonochrome dot-matrix display. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins took this to\na whole new level though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than just progressing through a handful of linear\nlevels, Mario was dropped onto an island with several themed zones. The player\ncan choose what order to play these in, though they must complete them all to\nget all 6 golden coins to reach the final boss level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the limitations of the Game Boy, Super Mario Land 2 manages to create a game that\u2019s varied and fun to play over and over again.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Super Mario 64<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Super Mario 64 is the first time we got to enjoy a Mario\nplatformer in 3D. Released in 1996 for the Nintendo 64, the game took advantage\nof the console\u2019s more powerful hardware to create an entirely new experience\nthat required players to develop new strategies for completing each level and collecting\nthe stars<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s widely regarded as one of the greatest video games of\nall time, so it\u2019s certainly one of the best Mario games ever made. It was\nre-released for the Nintendo DS and again for the Switch, though stocks of it\nare running low in most retailers and won\u2019t be replenished by Nintendo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario Kart 8<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario Kart is an arcade-style racing game packed with\ncharacters from the Mario universe. There have been 14 separate releases in\nthis series alone, though it makes the most sense to buy the latest release.\nMario Kart 8 Deluxe contains all the improvements in graphics, features, and\ntrack design that were added to previous versions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It doesn\u2019t have the realism that other racing games have,\nbut it doesn\u2019t need them. The power-up system, wacky racecourses, and fun\ncharacters make it a pleasure to play whether you\u2019re a talented gamer or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mario is perhaps the most famous game series in the world and is one of just a handful of franchises that have enjoyed almost universal appeal over several generations. In the four decades that Nintendo has been making Mario games, the Italian plumber has appeared in more than 200 different titles, though not all of them have been as successful as others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mario-lists"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/bowsers_blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}