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, ...

Mario was back for another adventure. But this time, it was personal. Hiroji Kiyotake, the director of 1992’s Game Boy hit Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins, wanted to pursue the idea that this ...