Mario Kart World is taking one of the best features from Mario Kart 8 and going even further with it. The latest Nintendo Direct gave fans plenty of exciting ideas of what to expect from Mario ...

to keep the integrity of the original characters but also make them work with the enemy behaviors and level designs of Super Mario Bros. Author Jay Pavlina says it's the first game he's ever made.

When I played "Super Mario Odyssey" recently, I encountered one of these 8-bit areas. I immediately smiled ... it'll be the first new entry in the open-world-style Super Mario games since ...

On nearly 22,000 recorded occasions, he’s inhabited the character of an 8-bit, suspendered plumber ... Any civilian who’s beaten the first level of Super Mario Bros. has leapt off a tower ...

and the shoot-em-up gameplay was relegated to a mere bonus level before being ditched entirely. We can but wonder what the Super Mario series would have gone on to become had the original been ...

The first level of Super Mario Bros ... team just to handle the physics of Mario’s running and jumping. Notably, Mario slips just a bit as he moves, and every game, that slippage is tweaked.