A sterling example of an authentic remake, Super Mario RPG has a new remake with new content, new visuals, and familiar faces.
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The game may be new, but its feeling of child-like wonder and delight is tempered with age in Super Mario Wonder.
The wish for a remake of Super Mario RPG has been granted, but we’re strolling down star road to revisit the Super NES original for this critique!
Revisiting R-Rated Horror on a console marketed to kids. This is Friday the 13th on regular Nintendo (NES), just in time for Halloween.
Nintendo Hard? More like Nintendo Easy with these simple steps to beat 10-Yard Fight on Regular Nintendo. Learn from a NES master!
On this Doki Doki Panic podcast: four Mario games in one episode plus kaizo game design, Lost Levels, and SMB2’s contributions to Mario canon.
On this Famicom podcast: translation vs localization, NES vs Family Computer, and your favorite imports that you’ve yet to play!
Critics, scores, rage reviews, and the N64 collide! Tune in when memes attack with Quest 64 and Quest64Official!
Like the locale it was inspired by, Wind Waker preserves customs, traditions, and heritage through generations by word of mouth.
Revisiting R-Rated Horror on a console marketed to kids. This is A Nightmare on Elm St. on the regular Nintendo.
What a horrible night to have a curse, but that’s by design. Here’s an apologetic for the unapologetic Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest!
When life gives you golden opportunities, make a golden gun. A review of Alyse Knorr’s GoldenEye 007: 00 Agent Edition (Boss Fight Books).
Adapting an actual college lecture from my University of Alabama course, I search for the answer to the question “What is a Final Fantasy?”
Finding the curious creator behind the unusual development and history of MOTHER and EarthBound Beginnings, 2 names for 1 game.
Fire Emblem: Engage lives up to its subtitle armed with a host of content and the power of the friendships we made along the way.
Tears of the Kingdom meaningfully builds onto the legacy of the Legend of Zelda, with freedom you might never have expected.
With a new adventure now available, the writers at The Pixels revisit some early Legend of Zelda memories.
Is there a Zelda formula? Here is a brief history on The Legend of Zelda and how the series has iterated over the decades.
It’s 2023 and people still believe Zelda II is a reject. Here’s everything the 1st sequel contributed to the Legend of Zelda series.
Nintendo, religion, censorship… should we just stick to the weather? What ever happened to the original religion of The Legend of Zelda?
Mario represents our highest ideals and hopes of being a hero, but he seems more attainable to us than most other examples. We’re all Mario. It’s-a me? It’s a you!
Can you love Super Mario without actually loving Super Mario games? Writer Mystraker explores that question.
Super Mario Multiverse is here and this is its Center: celebrate the joy, imagination, magic, and lasting impact of Mario for MAR10 Week!
Super Mario genres have been multitudinous, but here are 13 categories that could still use gaming’s most iconic mascot!
Everyone remembers the first time they experienced a Mario game. So we asked our writers a simple question: “What is your first Mario memory?”
If you like puzzles, want a new NES game, and are willing to put up with stiff cursor controls, NEScape! is a room worth visiting.
Judgment Day is here for this NES Classic! In this Op-Ed, we examine the R-Rated merits of Regular Nintendo’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom is a retro delight featuring vegetables, drama, and point-and-click action.
While Live A Live was definitely unique for its time, it’s got some competitors like Octopath Traveler in this day and age. Does it hold up?
Your swords, please. Choose your Jedi’s path in this enjoyable lightsaber brawler based on the film of the same title.
