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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Well, the name says it all. If you know what these games are, read ahead. If you don't, read ahead. I'll start with the All-Stars games first. Here we go: Super Mario All-Stars - The only several-games-in-one package that is actually worth buying. After the extreme success of the Super Mario Bros. Games, Nintendo had decided to recreate all these games onto one cart. So they made this Masterpiece. I’ll briefly go through all the games included in this cart, so you’ll have a basic idea: ---------Super Mario Bros. This game was the first released (1985). There is your usual ‘Daisy has been kidnapped, save ...  Read the complete review

Mario All Stars - 4 classic Nintendo platform games in one. I remember getting this game well over 10 years ago. I still play it today. To make this review a little different, I have decided to write it in rhyme. I will try and keep it as informative as possible. Once upon a time in a far away land An evil king hatched a monstorous plan He kidnapped the Princess, Peach was her name Enter Mario and Luigi - the heros of this ga... Ok. This really isn't working. Let's just write a normal review. Released in 1993 for the SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) platform, Super Mario All Stars is a compendium of all Mario's ...  Read the complete review