Julián F.L. is a video game & anime expert, historian & journalist with a lot of passion for these subjects and over 10 years of experience in writing about them. He has enjoyed video games, anime, ...

Mario, the hero of the Mushroom Kingdom, has happily kept Bowser’s forces from beating down your front door. He has bounced on the heads of more bad guys than Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Bruce Wayne, or ...

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.

A 1996 copy of "Super Mario 64"—rated 9.8, or A++, on the Wata Scale—sold last Sunday for $1.56 million. Heritage Auctions Designer Shigeru Miyamoto first dreamt up the character Mario, a mustachioed ...

Though the genre has since exploded, 2D platforming arguably owes its start to Super Mario. And even though it’s been 40 years since the first game came out, few 2D platformers have risen to the level ...

A single copy of Super Mario Bros. made for the Nintendo Entertainment System sold for $3 million. The sale took place at Heritage Auctions on June 12, 2026, where it became the highest price ever ...

These top-rated 3D platformers show how inventive movement, exploration, and level design helped define the genre.