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Illumination and Universal’s Super Mario Galaxy Movie at $372.5M worldwide is the second highest grossing movie in the Nintendo videogame plumbers big screen franchise behind 2023’s Super Mario Bros‘ ...

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.

Everyone’s favorite Brooklyn plumber is back in “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” (in theaters April 1), a big-screen follow-up to 2023’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” which netted nearly $1.4 billion ...

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If you’ve been living under a rock for the last year and are craving a Mario RPG, then I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that Nintendo has put out three of them in the last 12 months, ...

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On June 19, 2024, an X user claimed Nintendo character Mario's catchphrase was "Itsumi Mario," not "It's-a-me, Mario" (archived here). The user said "Itsumi" meant "super" in Japanese, and therefore ...

Mario runs past the low-sloping pyramids of hieroglyphic-streaked catacombs of ancient Egypt. It’s a far cry from the Mushroom Kingdom, but not out of place in a game that takes the adventurous ...

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has been held as the standard for Mario RPGs for 20 years. It, alongside its N64 predecessor, captured what fans wanted from their turn-based, plumber-starring ...

The word "iconic" gets used a lot, but if there's one character who deserves to be called that, it's Mario. The little mustachioed guy revolutionized gaming (and plumbing) forever. He has defended ...

Twenty years before it became a challenge to track down certain Mario toys in the form of amiibo, Nintendo made a Game Boy Advance game about the challenge of tracking down certain Mario toys in the ...