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W hen the original Super Mario Bros was released in 1985, it's safe to say game design was a little more basic – and that meant getting crafty with your visual assets. The eagle ...

The incredibly successful The Super Mario Bros. Movie shook up his design, however, and Nintendo now appears to be incorporating this into its games. Donkey Kong in Mario Kart 8, the animated film ...

Could the Switch 2's new Mario Kart ... World 6-1 from Super Mario Bros. 2, certainly backs that up a little bit. There’s even a glowing sign displaying the words Shine Sprite – the ...

If you look at the gorilla racer in the background of different shots, you’ll notice he looks pretty similar to his Super Mario Bros. Movie incarnation, rather than the classic design seen in ...

Donkey Kong is the most immediate example, as he now looks closer to his Super Mario Bros. Movie incarnation than to his Mario Kart 8 model. Meanwhile, everyone seems a little bit more squished ...

We see a cast of Mario characters racing down a dusty, western-looking highway in the Mario Bros. Circuit in various carts and motorcycles. Sadly, the footage is quite brief so not a lot can be ...

The new console is seen playing brand new Mario Kart footage, with characters racing on Mario Bros. Circuit set in a desert, with Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Peach, Toad and more featured on both karts ...

It looks like Donkey Kong's character model in this game was inspired by the character's look in the Super Mario Bros. movie. Based on the starting lines of the race, it looks as if up to 24 ...

Mario Bros. Circuit. We also see that the start line has a total of 24 race start positions marked onto the track. While this could of course be nothing more than a scenery element, having 24 ...

We really dodged a Bullet Bill there! Despite its blocky 8-bit-ness, the original Super Mario Bros. still holds up today and holds firm as one of the best NES games of all time. Responsive ...

It's up there in terms of challenge with New Super Mario Bros U, an unfairly maligned Mario entry which cranked up the technical audacity for a handful of appreciative super-players. (Of which I ...