Super Mario All-Stars (N64)

When Nintendo released Super Smash Bros. in 1999 it put a fun spin on all things Nintendo as well as the fighting game genre. With 12 Nintendo characters to choose from, one could pick their favourite character and bash their way through all the others in 1-player mode or have a 4-player all out free for all (by far the games best feature). With moves so simple even the most inexperienced player can play it, it was fun for everyone. Now not only have Nintendo recreated this fun fighting frenzy but it has also drastically improved it, promising a treat for all! GRAPHICS This game has a beautiful display of graphics. While it's true that most fighting ...

Super Mario Allstars + Super Mario World is a single cart that features the classic Super Mario World alongside four classic NES titles which have benefitted from a new lick of paint. The NES titles in question are Super Mario Bros., Doki Doki Panic, which was renamed Super Mario Bros. 2 for the West, Super Mario Bros. 3, and the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, called The Lost Levels here. Super Mario Bros. is one of the most influencial games ever; maybe only less so than Pong - the very first video game. It wasn't the first platform game, but it was the one that formed the basic structure of platform games today. With Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto crafted the ...

In a time before emulators allowed geeks to store thousands of their favourite 16-bit games on their hard drive, fitting more than one game onto a cartridge was a rare event. Firstly because it detracted money that young idiots like me would otherwise spend on buying every game individually (although thankfully it was never money we had properly earned or worked for, and it’s our parents who are the idiots after all, just like we always knew), and secondly because cartridges were really rubbish. Those plastic things you slot into your antiquated game console that don’t work until you blow in them used to seem so valuable, but are now not seen as fit to wipe our bottoms ...