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Mario Super Picross was a puzzle game released on the Super Famicom. This title never made it to North America. There was a similar title for the Nintendo Game Boy released. After that, the whole genre of Picross never really picked up in North America. Such a shame as this style puzzle can be quite […]
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Mario Party 2 Continues Nintendo Genre Take Overs – January 24th, 2000 – Today in Video Game History
January 23rd, 2021 
Carl Williams Mario Party 2 is a multiplayer party game that takes advantage of the Nintendo 64 hardware. Namely the four players at once capabilities. This allowed Hudson Soft, the developers, a lot of freedom in how the Mario Party line of games play. Even if you do not have three friends to play with you can […]
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Intellivision Super Mario Bros Shown
January 2nd, 2021 Carl Williams Intellivision Super Mario Bros is an anomaly of sorts. This is an entry in our Bandit Gaming section as there is no way this is official. Looking at the developer of this, we are not surprised on bit at the progress. What is surprising is just how close this is to the Nintendo Entertainment System […]
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Dr Mario Does House Calls with Nintendo Game Boy – December 1st, 1990 – Today in Video Game History
December 1st, 2020 Carl Williams Dr Mario is an anomalous release by Nintendo. On the surface, everything has the Nintendo feel to it. If you look slightly below the surface though and you see something more going on here. For one, we seem to have jumped forward in Mario’s life as he is now a doctor. Gone is the Mushroom […]
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Super Mario Bros Texas Instruments 99/4A Preview 4 Released
June 27th, 2020 Carl Williams Super Mario Bros is owned by Nintendo. We all know that. The game is iconic as well. That is probably why it is the focus of fan ports. That is exactly what is going on here. The fan port to the Texas Instruments 99/4A is now at preview number 4. Please note, this is not […]
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DOS Mario Ported to Commodore Amiga as Amigo, Work in Progress
June 15th, 2020 Carl Williams Fans of the Super Mario Bros franchise, particularly 8 and 16-bit, will want to pay attention. DOS Mario, a title that has been around for decades, is being ported to the Commodore Amiga computer. Currently called Amigo, this fan port of a fan game looks rather interesting. All the basics are here, goombas, coin boxes, […]
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Super Mario 64 Land Romhack Combines Two Great Mario Games
November 29th, 2019 Carl Williams Super Mario 64 is probably above reproach at this point. It is a classic and that is that. While it is tough to improve upon a classic, one rom hacker has done just that. How? By combining Super Mario 64 with another great Mario game, Super Mario 3D Land from the Nintendo 3DS platform. The […]
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Super Mario 64 Recreates Original Game
June 4th, 2019 Carl Williams You have to hand it to modders sometimes. They make some of the wackiest entries in titles we love. Some of those entries are wild and fun, others are just weird. Luckily this one falls in that first category. You can now play Super Mario Bros using the Super Mario 64 engine.
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Doctor Mario World Mobile Game Work in Progress
February 3rd, 2019 Carl Williams Nintendo seems to be continuing their relationship with various mobile partners in an effort to expand the Nintendo brand to mobile gamers. Early on we saw Mario Run and that was a pretty good success, we also saw Fire Emblem Heroes hit mobile platforms which used a more ‘freemium’ style of earnings model. Apparently we […]
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Super Mario Bros Two Player Hack Released
November 11th, 2018 Carl Williams Back in the day, consoles came with two controllers and at least one game. Depending on which version of the Nintendo Entertainment System you purchased, you could have gotten as many as three games packed in. Most people got two, Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt (and the light gun as well in the box). […]
