When Nintendo revealed the movie trailer for the Super Mario Bros. movie this week, they prefaced it by having some brief introductions from the actors. In that, Mario voice actor Chris Pratt brought up that the first time he encountered Nintendo’s working man mascot character was at the arcade. While it wasn’t clear which exact [...]
These days we’re challenged by games like Dark Souls and Cuphead, but hard games aren’t a new thing. Not by a long shot. We have a look at the hardest games ever, as judged by ourselves, and the Funstock Retro audience via social media. 10 – Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels An absolutely [...]
Every story has a beginning. But Mario’s origins are a little humbler than you might expect. And, no, we’re not talking about Donkey Kong. We’re talking about the first time Mario headlined a game as the protagonist, not its antagonist. Beginning life as a somewhat obscure arcade game, the Super Mario Bros. franchise was nothing [...]
You might know her as Princess Toadstool, but she likes to be called Peach today. And that’s the subject of today’s article: The mysterious life of Princess Peach. Sure, she’s in nearly every modern Mario title and she’s always getting kidnapped by King Koopa, but do we REALLY know her? It would seem not because [...]
In our coverage of IAAPA 2017, you might recall one game that generated a lot of buzz at the time, but has since disappeared from the headlines. That would be Capcom & Raw Thrills’ Mario Party Challenge World. While there was a lot of excitement surrounding the license at the show, the roulette nature of [...]
Few rivalries in video games will ever live up to that shared between Nintendo mascot Super Mario and Sega icon Sonic the Hedgehog. Avatars of their respective 16-bit home consoles and their companies at large, these two characters touted the best of each system and illustrated the contrasts between the two companies in ways few [...]
When it hit store shelves back in 1996, the Nintendo 64 rolled out with a Big Bang-like explosion in the form of Super Mario 64 and ended its life in a morass of increasing irrelevance for Nintendo and the rise of the PlayStation 2 as the dominant video game system on the market. How did [...]
Nintendo’s dominance in the handheld space has long been a facet of the video gaming industry, with only the recent advent of smartphone gaming providing a challenge to the Big N’s throne. The follow-up to the wildly successful Game Boy, the Game Boy Advance, largely built upon its predecessor’s legacy and was, in many respects, [...]
Probably one of the more difficult top 10 lists to assemble, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System not only offered an amazing library of top notch games but also did so at a consistent rate, producing classic after classic through each successive season. Not only is narrowing this down to only 10 titles extremely difficult, it [...]
Though the GameCube wasn’t Nintendo’s biggest hit in terms of home consoles, it was a nonetheless widely praised system that had a roster of awesome titles representing a variety of genres but, signaling Nintendo’s new status in the industry at the time of the GameCube, the vast majority of them were released by the console [...]