It’s doubtless nowhere near the best but as a favourite, nothing for me will beat playing through Super Mario Land on a borrowed gameboy in the early 90s, and then playing through the harder version you get after you complete it first time round. Super Mario Land II is a fantastic game too.

Never forget the soundtrack either!

Super Mario World is my vote. It was so good looking and fun, introduced Yoshi and had better mechanics than 3 while not being as complicated as later entries making it very accessible to virtually anyone, was such a good looking game that showcased the power of the SNES over the NES and had a soundtrack that plays in…

Galaxy 2

The headline asks for the best Mario game, the text of the article asks for your favorite. Those are...not the same thing.

See, I found Odyssey incredibly frustrating. If Cappy was only used for capturing it’d be one thing, but then they tossed in all the “hat tricks” to where an errant button press or thumbstick move had me fighting with the controls when Mario made a sudden move I wasn’t expecting. It seemed like every minute Mario was…

That’s a really hard question, because there isn’t really a “Mario” game genre. There are games with Mario, but they fall across several genres and I struggle to say that Super Mario World deserves the top spot over Mario Kart 8 Deluxe because the former is a 2D platformer and the latter is a racing game, they’re so…

Super Mario 64 is hugely important and has a ton of impact even to today, but the actual game is a little too rough around the edges for me to put it in the top spot like this. I loved it as a kid, but I really struggled to return to it a couple years back when the Super Mario 3D All-Stars pack came out (especially…

Super Mario World is just perfect. It’s the ultimate distillation of everything the SMB series brought to video gaming. The level designs are inspired and endlessly inventive. The movement is intuitive, but very deep (you can do SO MUCH with the cape!) The character designs are filled with personality. There are…

As someone who regularly revisits it, I truly, deeply believe that Super Mario 64 remains the best 3D platformer ever created.

I have a lot of nostalgia for older 2D Mario games (specifically the ones in Super Mario All Stars, since that was what my babysitter had) and Super Mario Sunshine, but I’d probably have to say Odyssey. They did such an amazing job making the captures feel good to control and making a bunch of interesting worlds just…

Super Mario Bros. 3 will always be my favorite. The amount of secrets hidden in each masterfully crafted level is a standard which few games ever held up to. It’s why to this day I often check every corner of the map of whatever game I’m playing and am often left disappointed.

2D - probably Super Mario World
3D - pretty close between Galaxy 2 and Odyssey 

“Putty”? A good term, I’ll admit that. Course I like getting derogatory and call that non-color paint by what it should be called: Glossy Primer Gray.

If you can’t read between the lines of this story about a shitty celebrity coming into an unethically low-paying job and complaining about the location’s low sales numbers on his trash merch, then I’d argue that you’re more likely the person who’s never done retail work. That wouldn’t be fun for anyone but the largest…

Every single person he annoyed had something better to do than help him make more money.  Fuck this guy.

I haven’t watched this new season yet (definitely planning to), but holy hell is the reddit sub for TD a total shitshow since this season debuted. It’s just full of people falling over themselves to fellate Pizzolatto and shit on the new season (and yeah, there are quite a few dog whistles about “wokeness” and “DEI”…

The only reason I know he exists is because of watching Podcast Cringe videos, which generally discuss “comedians” in Rogan’s circle like Bert Kreischer (who I was aware of independently of that), Andrew Schultz, and this guy. This is also the first I’m hearing a) that he was on SNL and b) was fired from it. That…

I can appreciate how plenty of regular SNL viewers might not know who Nate Bargatze is, or maybe even John Mulaney. But at least those guys have clear and not insubstantial fanbases. Aside from the trolls in gray here, who could possibly have any idea who this dude is? They’d be better off bringing Aristotle Athari…

Are they really this desperate for hosts?