GotGame: Mario is celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of his series (oh and Luigi too we suppose). As our own personal celebration, we’ve been replaying the plumbers best games, and we've even ranked them for your reading pleasure. Without further adieu, here are the top 16 mainline Mario games.
These classics need to make a return.
Pre-ordered mine a few days ago. Love this concept and hope there are more games announced. I can’t justify paying the prices for games that collectors are asking for. It’s the primary reason I own almost every console except the Neo Geo.
I've pre ordered one here in the UK, no games though, as I'll move it on for a higher price. The white model looks awesome, but as expected, the price is too high. We'll probably see more of those all in one cartridges from China containing every AES game. In the UK, AES+ game at £70 ($95) is better than eye watering prices for the originals, but these games are so old and I can honestly say SNK didn't release many classics. The Metal Slug series is the only series I rate, there were just too many Street Fighter clones and not enough scrolling fighting games. Overall, the Neo Geo was poor for all genres apart from one on one fighters. Videos on YouTube asking for games from that console generation to be ported to the AES+, but who'd want to pay £70 for Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2? There's a lot of SNK collections out there, the best being Metal Slug Anthology on the PlayStation 2. The Street Fighter Anniversary Collection on the Switch contains 12 games for around £30, instead of £840 if released on the AES+. For collectors, the AES+ is the best news since sliced bread. Are there enough SNK fans out there? Nowhere near. Those £70 cartridges will soon start creeping up in price and it'll be a re-run of the original console.
I always wanted one in the 90's but couldn't afford it. Now i can but i think if i get one it will be collecting dust fast. It's a nostalgia thing i guess.
FuRyu revealed on Friday its Exstetra fantasy role-playing game is getting an HD remaster that will launch this summer on Steam.
"Boutique publisher SNEG has joined forces with Games Workshop and its developer & publisher partners to unveil their new label in classic video game preservation with Warhammer Classics. Now available on Steam in an accessible, future-proofed form, this massive undertaking restores more than 20 seminal and cult-favorite Warhammer video games, bringing them back to PC." - Games Workshop and SNEG.
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Swap Mario 64 and Sunshine because sunshine was way better and fixed all Mario 64's problems. It was a fantastic game.
New Super Mario Bros U higher than Super Mario 3D World, wut?
super mario 64 was pure magic to me... jumping in those pictures, the music, the system, the time.. still to this day ill play it on the wii with my gamecube controller
Super Mario World, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario 64 are definitely the top games in the series with all the rest following behind. Only people who think differently are NES and Wii fanboys who choose the game they have the most nostalgia with. I've played them all except Galaxy(Wii Remote Sucks Compared To Traditional Mario Games) and these ones where definitely in the top 5. 3D World had a horrible camera and lot's of levels just felt overused without anything really amazing. It's a very overrated and average Wii U game. Only people who I've known to fanboy over Galaxy are people who actually like the Wii Remote and I personally hate the thing so I will never experience that game.
Don't let nostalgia or your inner fanboy decide the best Mario games. Super Mario World looked and played better than the original Bros series. Super Mario 64 was original as hell in every way for the series. Super Mario Sunshine fixed everything wrong with 64 as far as graphics and gameplay while also giving Mario a new original story which was awesome. New Super Mario Bros and the Wii U version feel average to me without anything really original or amazing while also controlling worse than all of the original 2D Mario games. I've never played the Galaxy series except a little of the beginning but I can't compare it to the other games simply because it uses motion controls/wii remote which in my opinion are worse than traditional controllers every other Mario game has. Galaxy should not be in the same list because if it is I simply can't put it in the top 5. Super Mario 3D World has the same issues as the New Super Mario Bros games in which it just feels like nothing amazing or original if not lacking even more when compared to previous 3D Mario games.
On a side note* I read a little of the article and noticed that the author mentioned after Super Mario 64 the 3D Mario space stagnated because it lacked anything new until Galaxy? To this day I still think F.L.U.D.D was very original and a great idea to give us something new for the Mario series. In my opinion the game is just as amazing as Super Mario 64 and it even played better. New Super Mario Bros and 3D World are far less original than Sunshine yet he ranks them higher saying they are more original. He also rates the Galaxy series the highest because he things they were the only good Mario game since Super Mario 64. I've played a little bit of Galaxy(Not enough to rank it or give a real solid opinion), but it reminded of the horrible parts in Sunshine where you get F.L.U.D.D taken away and you feel very under powered. That was the feeling I got from playing Galaxy for a few minutes, I think those parts are where Nintendo got their Idea for the Galaxy series. I think the only reason Galaxy is so high up there is because of all the casuals who bought a Wii and that was their first Mario game. Because let's be honest it is probably the most played Mario game simply because of how many Wiis were sold compared to all of their other consoles.