"Character musical themes in today’s games are somewhat of an anachronism. Gone are the days of 8- and 16-bit video game music arrays that severely limited a composer’s ability to convey emotion – modern games have full symphonic capability, and very little in the way of physical limitations beyond the imagination of the composer. In short, it used to be a lot harder to show the player what they were supposed to be feeling.
Musical themes were a great way to give a character a characteristic identifier so that players could tell, even with their eyes closed, who was on the scene, and what that meant to the story."
Super Mario has had a lot of different iterations, but for MAR10 Day 2024 (Mario Day), CGM takes a look at which is the best Mario across the entire franchise.
With the movie, several games, and a new theme park expansion delivered 2023 was a good year for Mario fans. Mahin K, writing for overkill, looks back, and notes how 2024 is looking like a good one too.
The Nintendo Switch is very nearly the perfect Super Mario gaming machine, but it's missing four main series 2D Super Mario games.
Super Mario Land (Game Boy) can't be that hard to port. How is that one not available? :)
