Every Mario game available on Nintendo Switch, ranked

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There have never been more Mario games available on a single console than on Nintendo Switch. There are brand-new entries in the core 2D and 3D series; many spinoffs, sports, and organization games; a fewer remakes, including the freshly released Mario vs. Donkey Kong; the best-selling Mario game ever, in the form of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe; plus a roster of classical titles on Nintendo control Online as it has expanded to include NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy, and Game Boy Advance titles — including among them what are indubitably any of the top video games always made.

By our count, there are no little than 43 individual Mario games available on Switch. (In fact, there are more than that, but we’ll get to that in a second.) By “Mario games,” we mean games in which Mario is the main character, or that feature his name in the title (sorry, Luigi). To aid you kind through this morass of Mario content, we decided to rank them all.

To make sense of this gargantuan task, we decided to effort something fresh and rank the games in a tier list — S-tier, A-tier, B-tier, and so on — alternatively than usage a numerical ranking. This is simply a clearer way to present specified a long list, and besides avoids quite a few arbitrary decisions erstwhile comparing games in specified a wide scope of genres: platformers, RPGs, puzzle games, racing games, sports games, and more. Unlike our numerical rankings, we’ll start with the best, S-tier games at the top, and work our way down. The games are listed in no peculiar order within each tier.

Similarly, to keep things simple and avoid duplication, we ruled out a fewer games. The Super Mario Advance titles, a series of remakes for Game Boy Advance now available on Nintendo control Online, are out, due to the fact that the first versions are all besides playable on Switch. (The Advance versions are good, though, and we’ve made a note under the first entries erstwhile 1 is available.) The same goes for the SNES remake compilation Super Mario All-Stars, which collects the NES-era Super Mario Bros. titles; it’s besides a large way to play these games.

It was a more tricky decision to decide to exclude Super Mario 3D All-Stars, a limited-edition collection for Mario’s 35th anniversary, which is the only way to play Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy on Switch. (It besides includes Super Mario 64.) The collection leaves something to be desired (not least for omitting the amazing Galaxy 2), and Nintendo’s baffling decision to limit its run has made it hard to get now without spending a luck on the utilized market, so we left it out. Hopefully Nintendo will find a better way to honor these classical games in the future. But for now — let’s rank!

Update (Feb. 18, 2024): This article has been updated to remove any unavailable games and add many fresh releases.


S tier

Super Mario Bros. Wonder

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An expression of pure creativity, Super Mario Bros. Wonder takes the 2D platforming strain of Super Mario games in delightful, constantly amazing directions. Exploring the all-new Flower Kingdom, Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, and friends embark on a quest to take down Bowser — who has become a menacing flying castle! Super Mario Bros. Wonder famously introduces all-new power-ups, including the ability for our heroes to become elephants and a reality-altering upgrade called the Wonder Flower. That fresh flower is the origin of Wonder’s many surprises, turning classical Mario mechanics upside down and treating each level as if it were a subject park ride. anticipate the unexpected.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is cleverly designed with cooperative play in mind, with concessions for younger players. It can be played solo for a challenge, with a friend collaboratively, online for a sense of community, or as the guide for anyone fresh to Mario games — you can virtually carry your friends and loved ones on your back as Yoshi, in 1 of Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s many smart ideas. —Michael McWhertor

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

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60 million Mario Kart 8 Deluxe fans can’t be wrong. The Switch’s best-selling game is large for a reason: This is the eventual Mario Kart package, with dozens of racers and courses, and finely honed classical karting action. Bolstered by the Booster Course Pass downloadable content, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe spoils players with choice.

Accept no imitators. Nintendo has been the king of console kart-racing games since 1992, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is so jam-packed with content and expertly polished gameplay that it’s almost impossible to foretell where the franchise could go from here. —MM

Super Mario World

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When it came time to update its world-conquering Super Mario Bros. series for the launch of the Super Nintendo amusement System, Nintendo chose smoothness, finesse, and plan sophistication over a immense leap in graphical quality or a ton of fresh features. The consequence is simply a game that has aged far better than it might have, and arguably better than many Mario games that came before and after it.

Super Mario planet is gorgeous, effortlessly legible, and delightfully chaotic and surprising. It ties everything that made Super Mario Bros. 3 large into a more rounded and coherent package, and besides gave us Yoshi. Is it the top 2D platformer of all time? most likely — and its closest competition is besides on this list. —Oli Welsh

Included in Nintendo control Online’s SNES collection. besides available as Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 in Nintendo control Online + Expansion Pack’s GBA collection.

Super Mario 64

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Super Mario 64 brought a fresh dimension to Mario games, literally. Originally released on the Nintendo 64, the game showcased the capabilities of Nintendo’s console and allowed Mario to jump, skip, and fly in full 3D-generated worlds, breaking free from his humble 2D origins. From the explosive speckled green fields of Bob-omb Battlefield to the squawking penguin babies of Cool, Cool Mountain, Nintendo managed to convey a sense of wonder and surprise, all nestled into the regal halls of Princess Peach’s castle.

Since its first release in 1996, the game has been ported to respective Nintendo consoles and has become a touchstone of the Mario franchise. The platforming might not feel as polished erstwhile compared to modern Mario games, but it inactive has aged well, and it remains a popular choice for competitive speedrunners and casual players alike. Super Mario 64 is massively influential, not just for Mario but on video games more widely — and for that, it earns a top place on this list. —Ana Diaz

Included in Nintendo control Online + Expansion Pack’s Nintendo 64 collection. besides available in lightly remastered form as part of Super Mario 3D All-Stars, if you can track a copy down.

Super Mario Odyssey

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In Super Mario Odyssey, the Switch’s main entry in the 3D Mario platforming canon, Mario can transform into various creatures and inanimate objects with a fast flick of his hat. By introducing this gimmick, Nintendo turns each of the game’s worlds into a veritable playground for Mario; our dear plumber can become a frog, or fling himself by transforming into a street delineator. Pair this with any of my favourite visuals in a Mario game ever, and you have the makings of a large game.

Super Mario Odyssey has a lot to love, but I’ll remember it as a game that truly innovated on the standard 3D Mario formula. alternatively of having set levels with circumstantial missions or tasks, Odyssey just plops Mario into each planet with no peculiar guidance. The developers created worlds that invitation curiosity, as players freely research and discover its collectible Power Moons. It brings an open-world feel to the game that mostly works, and kept me curious in discovering all its delights and surprises. Last but not least, Odyssey showed us shirtless Mario and his nipples, so I gotta give points for that. —AD

Super Mario Bros. 3

Super Mario Bros. 3 is the perfect mixture of innovation and execution of Mario’s core attributes. This was the actual sequel to the first Super Mario Bros., after Super Mario Bros. 2 bifurcated into different versions in Japan and the West, both with their own compromises. If you were hoping for more of that unalloyed Nintendo magic, here it was: You could fly, you could turn into a statue, and there were secrets galore. The game’s release was a gigantic cultural event, complete with one of the most memorable video game commercials always created. And it’s inactive a stone-cold classical now. —Ben Kuchera

Included in Nintendo control Online’s NES collection. besides available as part of Super Mario All-Stars in the SNES collection, and as Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 in Nintendo control Online + Expansion Pack’s GBA collection.

Super Mario planet 2: Yoshi’s Island

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Leave it to Nintendo to make an escort mission actually enjoyable, as Yoshi takes center phase as the hero in this Mario game — and Mario himself is turned into a baby who must be kept safe. (Its inclusion in this list is something of a technicality — while it’s technically a sequel to Super Mario World, Yoshi’s Island can besides be seen as the start of Yoshi’s own series.)

It’s besides 1 of the best-crafted platformers of all time, and 1 of the funniest. Yoshi’s Island looks like it was drawn and colored by hand, and the whimsical speech hides how all aspect of the game seems to have been fussed over and perfected. This was a immense departure for the Mario franchise at the time, but it’s only gotten better with age. —BK

Included in Nintendo control Online’s SNES collection. besides available as Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3 in Nintendo control Online + Expansion Pack’s GBA collection.


A tier

Super Mario 3D planet + Bowser’s Fury

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Building on ideas from the also-great Super Mario 3D Land for 3DS, 3D World is simply a wonderful exploration of 3 decades’ worth of Mario mechanics, power-ups, and enemies, all delightfully remixed in a gorgeous, lengthy adventure. Super Mario 3D World is besides where players were introduced to the clever puzzles of Captain Toad and the admittedly weird concept of Cat Mario.

Originally stuck on the Wii U, Super Mario 3D World was given fresh life on Switch, giving Nintendo fans another chance to experience this celebration of 3D Mario. Paired with the beautiful Bowser’s Fury — an experimental, somewhat open-world take on the 3D Mario expression — it’s an amazing package.

Super Mario 3D World suffers only somewhat from its focus on co-op play, which supports up to 4 players, but can make navigating its diverse worlds challenging at times. —MM

Super Mario Maker 2

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Super Mario Maker unleashed a digital toolbox that shaped the culture of how Mario is played as we know it. And the sequel built upon that foundation.

As its name suggests, Super Mario Maker 2 allows players to plan and share their own 2D Mario levels. (The game does have a single-player campaign, but the plan elements are the main draw.)

Players of Super Mario Maker 2 took its creative elements and ran with them. Whereas any leaned into the creative elements and pulled off feats like recreating popular songs inside levels of the game, others took to designing super-difficult challenges for Kaizo Mario players.

Custom levels allowed fans to produce any of the toughest Mario levels yet, and put the best Mario players in the planet to the test. Nintendo showed just how much players can do with the freedom to imagine their own levels. —AD

Super Mario Kart

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Super Mario Kart is the first game in the Mario Kart series — the success that likely inspired just about all game company on the planet to put its characters in karts at least erstwhile in the past 30 years, and 1 of the first games to show what Mario could bring to genres far outside of his platforming origins.

Super Mario Kart besides showed off the 3D capabilities of the Super Nintendo by utilizing its Mode 7 technology, which kept the characters in the mediate of the screen and moved the planet around them to simulate movement. no of this would have mattered if the game hadn’t been a blast, though, and Mario Kart came out of the gate with assurance and plenty of the most crucial aspects of the series already in place. Even today, it’s a truly tight, well-tuned, and satisfying racing game to play. any characters only change the face of gaming once, but Mario has done so for more genres than I can count. —BK

Included in Nintendo control Online’s SNES collection.

Super Mario Bros.

There’s no uncertainty that the first 1985 Super Mario Bros. for NES is 1 of the most important, influential, and brilliantly designed games of all time. There’s even an argument that Shigeru Miyamoto’s classical is the game responsible, more than any other, for firing the video game manufacture back to life after the crash of 1983. It expanded Mario’s planet from 1 screen to a scrolling infinity. It’s a cornerstone of the console gaming industry, and possibly the first game that opened a space between arcade gaming and computer gaming for games that could be simple and accessible, but deep and sophisticated at the same time.

So why’s it only in our A tier? simply put, it’s just not as fun to play now as Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World — games that took its revolutionary ideas and refined and expanded them to a point of perfection. Super Mario Bros. is a hall-of-famer and essential for students of the medium, but for pure fun value, play its successors first. —OW

Included in Nintendo control Online’s NES collection. besides available as part of Super Mario All-Stars in the SNES collection.

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

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The 3rd Super Mario role-playing game, following Super Mario RPG: Legend of the 7 Stars and Paper Mario, is 1 of Nintendo’s strongest. Boasting expert comedy writing and a clever combat system, Superstar Saga kicked off a brand-new subseries of Mario games in 2003, thanks to its memorable mechanics and hilarious antagonists Cackletta and Fawful.

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga sends the plumber bros on a mission to a fresh land, the Beanbean Kingdom, in search of Princess Peach’s stolen voice — as fresh a spin Nintendo had at the time on the kidnapping trope that Peach has been subjected to for decades. More inventive than another rescue-mission communicative are the game’s mechanics, which build on erstwhile Mario RPGs’ timing-based, turn-based battles with weapons, super powers, and cooperative peculiar moves.

But it’s the writing of Cackletta, Fawful, and supporting characters that makes Superstar Saga so wonderful. Paired with beautiful sprite work and music from composer Yoko Shimomura, the first Mario & Luigi game is (still) a must-play. —MM

Included in Nintendo control Online + Expansion Pack’s GBA collection.

Mario Kart 64

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Although Mario Kart’s template was brilliantly laid out in the first SNES game, this N64 sequel made a fewer crucial changes that have left a lasting mark on the series. The first was four-player split-screen. The second was a change in the doctrine of the course design, from tight, method circuits to more open tracks littered with hazards, secrets, and moments of spectacle. The 3rd was embodied in the infamous blue shell, a homing weapon guaranteed to take out the leader, awarded to a player far back in the pack.

Thus the spirit of Mario Kart was born: fair, but only in the most unfair way; controlled, beautiful chaos for as many people as you can fit around your TV. It’s inactive a blast to this day. —OW

Included in Nintendo control Online + Expansion Pack’s Nintendo 64 collection.


B tier

New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe

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Another updated version of a game that was first released on Nintendo Wii U, the Deluxe version of New Super Mario Bros. U throws in the New Super Luigi U expansion.

Even if you’ve played it before, it’s worth revisiting what may be any of the best, if besides toughest, 2D Mario plan always created — all with four-player support. This game besides proved that the fresh Super Mario Bros. series does best erstwhile put on a portable system; after all, this offshoot franchise began on Nintendo DS. If you want a more modern take on the classical Mario of the NES and Super NES eras, New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe is worth checking out, even if it has been superseded by the more imaginative and forgiving Wonder. —BK

Mario organization Superstars

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These days, there is only 1 Mario organization game I burden up erstwhile the inevitable social gathering calls for it: Mario organization Superstars.

It’s not the best Mario organization game due to the fact that it’s the most fresh or has flashy fresh features; it’s the best due to the fact that the full game is actually a callback to erstwhile Mario organization games. Superstars pulls all minigame and board from a erstwhile series entry, so it’s fundamentally a hall of fame for Mario organization games.

For me, it’s my go-to Mario organization game due to the fact that its basic retro controls and mechanics make it an easy game for a wide scope of abilities to play; anyone from my Overwatch-obsessed esports cousin to the 4-year-old who prefers to play games on an iPad can enjoy it. Retro Mario organization games found fresh life through Mario organization Superstars, and these days it’s the only Mario organization you truly need. —AD

Super Mario Bros. 2

Originally not a Mario game but a reskin of a completely different game released only in Japan, Super Mario Bros. 2 is sometimes considered a unusual deviation and not a “true” Mario game — in part due to the fact that the ending implies it was all a dream. But Nintendo’s sort-of sequel to the classical Super Mario Bros. is now a core part of Mario lore. It introduced Princess Peach and Toad as playable characters and brought a host of fresh creatures and enemies to the Mushroom Kingdom. If it weren’t for Super Mario Bros. 2’s unusual way to becoming a Mario sequel, would we have Shy Guys, Birdo, and Bob-ombs in modern Mario games? possibly not!

Super Mario Bros. 2 may be a weird retrofit aimed at Western audiences, but its gameplay mechanics had an enduring impact on the franchise. And it’s got any of the catchiest music of any Mario game, thanks to composer Koji Kondo’s ragtime-inspired soundtrack. —MM

Included in Nintendo control Online’s NES collection. besides available as part of Super Mario All-Stars in the SNES collection, and as Super Mario Advance in Nintendo control Online + Expansion Pack’s GBA collection.

Super Mario RPG

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Super Mario RPG is an first role-playing Mario adventure given a long-awaited and reasonably lavish control remake treatment. It’s an unusual bird, this — it was made by Square at the tallness of Final Fantasy’s popularity, and despite the characters feels as much like a Square game as a Nintendo one. It’s clunky in places, but very charming, and it established the streamlined, rhythmic “my first RPG” expression that Nintendo went on to usage in Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi games. The remake makes any wise improvements but is very respectful to the somewhat wonky, funhouse-mirror look and feel of the original. —OW

Donkey Kong

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The game that started the Mario franchise, Donkey Kong is inactive a highly replayable arcade game full of challenge. The version available on Nintendo control Online, available as part of the Nintendo amusement strategy collection, is not the best version of Donkey Kong, sadly. It’s the meager NES port, which does not feature the arcade version’s cutscenes and only features 3 playable levels — the fourth, the cement mill level, isn’t present.

For the full experience, you’ll request to shell out separately for Arcade Archives: Donkey Kong, a faithful, stand-alone port of the first arcade game. Either way, the retro sights and sounds of Donkey Kong are worth returning to for a dose of classical Nintendo nostalgia. Keep your fingers crossed for an eventual release of the Game Boy version of Donkey Kong from 1994, which takes the first game in creative fresh directions. —MM

Included in Nintendo control Online’s NES collection, or as the stand-alone game Arcade Archives: Donkey Kong on the Nintendo eShop.

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

Although Game Boy Donkey Kong remains the top Mario platformer to grace Nintendo’s first handheld hardware — sadly unavailable on control at the minute — Super Mario Land 2 is no slouch. Leaping forward from the original’s imitation of Super Mario Bros. to take in the innovations of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World, it’s an amazing feat of miniaturization for its time, and inactive quite a few fun to play. Also, this is the game that gave the planet Wario — he’s the antagonist, and Mario’s quest is to go bop him on the head. For that alone, Super Mario Land 2’s place in culture is assured. —OW

Included in Nintendo control Online’s Game Boy collection.

Paper Mario

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Paper Mario is 1 of the most first and beguiling visual treatments Mario’s planet — it’s up there with the delightful crayon scribbles of Yoshi’s Island. Very cute paper cutouts of Mario and all his pals scamper around 3D dioramas made of simple but richly textured geometry; it’s just gorgeous stuff.

Gameplay-wise, this is another evolution of the simple, approachable Mario RPG framework, with rhythmic conflict inputs to keep you involved. Its storybook approach is more wistful and little uproarious than the out-and-out comedy of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, though. This first Paper Mario is inactive wonderfully pretty, but if you want to play the best game in the series, wait for the upcoming control remake of the GameCube classical Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. —OW

Included in Nintendo control Online + Expansion Pack’s Nintendo 64 collection.


C tier

Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom conflict and Sparks of Hope

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On sheer quality alone, you could arguably place Ubisoft’s pair of tactical squad combat games, which mash up the worlds of Mario and the Minionesque Rabbids, a small higher on this list. They’re truly good, but there’s something a small off-brand about Mario with a gun, isn’t there? Which you choice is simply a substance of taste: Kingdom Battle for classical turn-based action, Sparks of Hope for a more fluid system. —OW

Super Mario Party

After years in the doldrums, the first control Mario organization was something of a return to form, with a more strategical board game layer and any large minigames. There’s no beating Superstars’ greatest-hits package, though. —OW

Mario Golf: Super Rush

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For those of you who find golf to be a bit slow and stiff, may I propose that you check out Mario Golf: Super Rush? alternatively of neatly putting and lining up shot after shot, this game turns all of the course into a race against another characters as you frantically run from shot to shot. Super Rush oozes with character and turns an otherwise respectable athletics into the eventual Mario slugfest — it’s perfect. —AD

Mario Golf and Mario Tennis

Mario had been in sports games before — arguably the first is NES Open Tournament Golf, a straightforward, early golf sim that has Mario in it — but it was this excellent Nintendo 64 pair that truly established the expression of solid, semi-serious sports games with a small outlandish twist. Mario Tennis is inactive an absolute riot in four-player. —OW

Included in Nintendo control Online + Expansion Pack’s Nintendo 64 collection.

Mario vs. Donkey Kong

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While we wait for the incredible 1994 Game Boy Donkey Kong — Nintendo’s best-ever puzzle-platformer — to be made available, we’ll gotta make do with this control remake of its unofficial Game Boy Advance sequel, Mario vs. Donkey Kong. A solid challenge for both brain and thumbs. —OW

Mario Kart: Super Circuit

The Game Boy Advance’s Mario Kart was in many ways a throwback to the first SNES Super Mario Kart, only with even tighter, more method courses. That makes Super Circuit something of an outlier in the series, but a very fun and rewarding racing challenge still. —OW

Included in Nintendo control Online + Expansion Pack’s GBA collection.

Mario Strikers: conflict League

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Mario and friends get to slug it out on the football pitch one more time in Mario Strikers: conflict League. While it can be hard to stand out erstwhile Mario sports games are a dime a dozen, this game has a full lot of character erstwhile it comes to the in-game taunts and interactions. Where else could I see a cutscene of Wario butt-slamming a football ball into oblivion? —AD


D tier

Mario Party, Mario organization 2, and Mario organization 3

The first Nintendo 64 trilogy of organization games — blending anarchic minigames with a somewhat ponderous board game framework — are all absolutely fine, and worth dipping into if you have control Online. But in a planet where Superstars exists, they’re somewhat redundant. —OW

Included in Nintendo control Online + Expansion Pack’s Nintendo 64 collection.

Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit

You play Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit by controlling a physical toy car around your surviving space with your Switch, and viewing everything from the point of view of the car itself, as if your physical home had been turned into a Mario Kart track. Which is beautiful much the reality of the situation! Delightful, if a full gimmick. —BK

Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels

Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels was actually Super Mario Bros. 2 in Japan, and was aimed at players who had mastered the first game, so the difficulty was increased substantially. If you want a super-difficult, punishing take on the first Super Mario Bros., though, here you go. The mushrooms can kill you now, by the way. —BK

Included in Nintendo control Online’s NES collection. besides available as part of Super Mario All-Stars in the SNES collection.

Arcade Archives: Mario Bros.

The Mario Bros. arcade game was, conceptually, Nintendo’s answer to Williams’ Joust, and yet someway even harder. Having to hit the Sidestepper crabs twice to flip them over introduced me to the word “difficulty spike” at a very tender age. This game was not only the debut for Mario’s sibling, Luigi; it besides established the 2 as plumbing professionals, and made turtlelike beings their mortal enemies for the next 4 decades. —Owen S. Good

Mario’s Super Picross

This control Online edition of Mario’s Super Picross is the first time the game has been made available in the U.S. If you haven’t played any games in the series, imagine a mixture of sudoku and possibly Minesweeper, in which you’re trying to uncover a Mario-themed image hidden in each puzzle. It’s fine. (And there are far better Picross games on Switch.) —BK

Included in Nintendo control Online’s SNES collection.

Paper Mario: The Origami King

Image: Intelligent Systems/Nintendo via Polygon

Why are the boss battles so hard? Without that issue, this game might have been at least a small higher on our list. As it stands, this is simply a fine but quirky RPG with any ridiculous difficulty spikes. Good luck. —BK

Mario Tennis Aces

The return of Mario’s tennis adventures on control in Mario Tennis Aces is not the sports RPG any hoped for, but delivered the easy-to-learn/hard-to-master challenge I enjoy facing in all kinds of sports titles. Also, the 29-strong cast of characters provides quite a few depth and variety to local and online multiplayer. Let’s not forget the fact that this thing has a communicative mode, too. —OSG


E tier

Dr. Mario and Dr. Mario 64

Dr. Mario, the capsule-matching puzzle game, was not a fun game, but we love it due to nostalgia and the inclusion of Mario. This isn’t just me being grumpy! More and more people are seeing the truth: Dr. Mario is not, and was not, a good game. I’m sorry I gotta bring this hard fact to you, but you deserved to hear it from a friend. —BK

Included in Nintendo control Online’s NES collection and Nintendo control Online + Expansion Pack’s Nintendo 64 collection.

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

The Olympics have never translated well to video games. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is the same kind of button-mashing gimmickry for which its forebears were besides known, although it does effort something fresh by sucking the characters into a time vortex and spitting them out in the 1964 Tokyo Games, which are played as 8-bit throwbacks with a CRT filter. But it all comes off like Nintendo and Sega’s civic work to support a local economical improvement project. —OSG

Arcade Archives Vs. Super Mario Bros. and Wrecking Crew

The Vs. arcade version of Super Mario Bros. is much harder, more mean-spirited, and more frustrating in ways that aren’t fun. I’m glad you can buy it and play it, due to the fact that it’s a part of Mario history, but if you’re not a historian, you can safely avoid this full mess. Wrecking Crew, available in either arcade or NES form, is simply a completely different game in which Mario and Luigi are demolition experts and gotta take down buildings. Both games are specified curiosities. —BK

Wrecking Crew is included in Nintendo control Online’s NES collection, or in an Arcade Archives edition.



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