Super Mario 64 - Virtual Console

Mark's Game Changers choices include titles from the '80s, '90s and Noughties - and are linked to some amazing stories of farting in jars, getting high and, eventually, going it alone.

1UP: A recent online survey by the Goo Research firm (translated by What Japan Thinks) asked 1,072 Japanese internet users which video games they would like to play on a big-screen 3D television. The sample was mostly female (68% vs. 32%) and included respondents from all age groups and every region of Japan.

The Finnish Police seized 3.5 million worth of designer drugs. The drug manufacturer(s) used Super Mario logo in their drugs.

We just can’t wait for Galaxy 2, and our review is impending, we super swear. But in the meantime, Nintendo has been going wild with trailers on its YouTube channel for the game. The latest trailer of 16 just revealed a real gem of a level from late in the game. We’re not saying we played the game or that we wrote the review or anything, but let’s just say that if we had, this level in this video would be one of our favorite moments in Galaxy 2. Watch the vid inside...

Doctor Octoroc gives us 8-bit renditions of our favorite christmas themes... with a video game twist!

To celebrate the launch of Mario Super Sluggers, Charles Martinet, the voice actor for Mario, Luigi, Wario, and more will be in attendance at the Nintendo World Store in Manhattan on August 24th, signing autographs and giving out a mysterious special gift from Nintendo to those who purchase the new Mario sports title.

9th Dec, 2008 Just what in the hell is going on with Mario and Peach? It was so simple back in the old NES days of Super Mario Bros. She got herself kidnapped, he went after her with the help of Luigi, and all ended happily ever after. Or so we thought. The thing is that it didn't really. It's become ever more apparent that since that first rescue things have only ever got messier, dirtier and more manipulative in their relationship. Far from the innocent damsel and hero set-up that appeared

A list of Wii tidbits that you might not know. · In the Photo Channel, you can catch the evil cat that runs across the screen to get tips! It appears in the Fun option, and you can grab the cat with the A and B button. · You can have a 194 piece puzzle by holding down the 1 button before selecting any piece amount. · If you don't have an SD card and still want to check out Photo Channel, you can e-mail a Jpg to your Wii Message Board. There is a size limit for any mail you send to it - possibly 1mb. · In Bowling, you can throw your ball into other people's lanes. · If you put mp3s in your SD card along with your photos, you can change the background music during a slideshow to one of your mp3s. · When the messageboard records your play time, if you don't exit to the Wii Menu before you power off the machine, it records the play time as other. If you properly exit to the menu and then shut off it will record it as the correct game. · You can rearrange almost anything on the wii¿like the channels and messages by just holding the A and B · The plasma burin reduction kicks in the second the wiimote shuts down. · when you get an e-mail, not only does the disc drive light up and pulsate blue, but your Wiimote sends out a little chirp · when you're in the Mii channel and you don't use the Wiimote for a little bit and your Mii's start walking around, if you then suddenly use the Wiimote, all the Mii stop and follow the 'hand' for about 3 seconds¿. · when typing messages, and you need to go back and edit the message(while still typing) instead of deleting letters, just point to where you want to edit to move the type cursor. · In Wii Sports Bowling, when you press up on the Directional Pad, it will zoom in on the lane. The zoom in sound is the exac...

Nintendo's Wii is set to arrive this Sunday on November 19. The Wii launch will have 28 retail games available including The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Red Steel, Madden NFL 07, Need for Speed Carbon, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent, Trauma Center: Second Opinion, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2, Metal Slug Anthology, Excite Truck. Also available are 30 so-called Virtual Console games [NES, Turbografx-16, Genesis, SNES, and N64] from Nintendo's online store. These downloadable classic games include Donkey Kong, Mario Bros, Sonic the Hedgehog, Toe Jam & Earl, Gunstar Heroes, Bomberman '93, Bonk's Adventure, F-Zero, SimCity, Super Mario 64.

Super Mario Sunshine was at a disadvantage from the very beginning. Remember, this was the semi-official sequel to Super Mario 64, a project even today remembered as one of the best videogame platformers of all time. But in the interest of being objective for just a brief moment, let's altogether forget about Super Mario 64 and look exclusively at Sunshine. Was it a failure? Some Nintendo fans - more than you might expect, in fact - will tell you yes. They'll argue that Nintendo dropped the ball and that the title completely failed to live up to its potential. I'd call that a dramatic critique, at the very least. I don't think Sunshine was a failure. Actually, I happen to feel that it was a great game, but also one whose theme was uninteresting and whose mechanics were sometimes frustrating, if not broken. When I look back on Sunshine, I can't help but summon up the happy inhabitants of Isle Delfino.