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Going into 1981, Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto was facing a problem. Working on one of his first games ever, he hoped to use Popeye, the famed sailor of 1930s cartoons, to serve as the hero.

Our two favorite mustached plumbers are back — for an adventure that's out of this world. The events of "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" take place after its 2023 predecessor. Mario and Luigi (Chris ...

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There’s a lot to gripe about in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, but what tends to get the most scorn also crystallizes everything wrong with that movie: its needle drops. It’s not just that the first ...

As the company releases the sequel “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” the need for narrative has meant a new focus on its sparse cast of female characters. By Zachary Small Illustrations by eBoy There ...

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Illumination adapts the beloved and endlessly creative 2007 video game into a mind-numbing exercise in references, cameos, and franchise expansions. A children’s animated movie is probably never ...

Nintendo is celebrating "Mario Day" — otherwise known as March 10 — with more than just new Virtual Boy games for Nintendo Switch Online. Select Mario games for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 will be ...

Mario Day is…not here just yet. But ahead of March 10, Nintendo has launched a sale on the Nintendo eShop, and it’s uh, bad. But one Mario crossover game is massively discounted, so Mario Day 2026 isn ...

Nintendo has a somewhat equivocal relationship with the annual Mario Day celebration of its most famous mascot on March 10. The celebration, originally coined by fans because MAR10 spells Mario, has ...