Mario is a dud. He has no personality outside of his career. He takes a green pipe from one world to the next, stealing all the gold while slaughtering every Goomba in his way. He hardly says a thing, ...

In Nintendo’s recently released mobile game Super Mario Run, the famous plumber leaps his way through a couple dozen levels on his way to rescue Princess Peach from Bowser. Been there, done that. Yet ...

Spare some sympathy for Wario, the oft-misunderstood antihero of the Super Mario Bros. games. He had a difficult childhood that may have contributed to his overcompensating obsessions with gold, ...

The fact that Wario is even on the table as possibly appearing in Super Mario 64 & 3D All Stars is because the DS version of Super Mario 64 did feature Wario prominently as a playable character. He ...

Nintendo's handheld division at R&D1 never really knew what they wanted to do with the Mario series. Sure, they didn't really have a lot of choice in the matter. You could hardly expect Nintendo to ...