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This may be the only Super Mario Bros review that landed with the NES launch, and the magazine that called it a "special hall of fame" classic in 1986 is helping set a new standard for game preservation
By Dustin Bailey published
News "No owner of the Nintendo Entertainment System should be without this game – it's a must!"

Super Mario Bros speedrunners spend 16 months and "hundreds of hours" doing "things that have never been done before in this 40-year-old game" to finally build the perfect 000000 point run
By Dustin Bailey published
News "We love making new things happen"

30 years later, a lost Mario game has been found – in blood-red screenshots extracted from an old AOL file library
By Scott McCrae published
News The Wario apparition was almost canon

It took 490 days, but the Super Mario Bros speedrun world record is now 4 frames better – and just 18 frames away from literal perfection
By Dustin Bailey published
News Niftski assures concerned viewers that he is "completely healthy and [does] not have any heart condition"

Mario's iconic pipes only exist because Shigeru Miyamoto happened to see "a plastic pipe sticking out of a wall" while wandering the streets of Kyoto
By Catherine Lewis published
News The pipes offered a way to transport enemies back to the top of the screen

A new Super Mario Bros speedrun world record is just 12 frames away from glitchless perfection and the runner says "I do not plan on just stopping here"
By Dustin Bailey published
News Mario speedrunners are pushing the original game to new levels

Super Mario Bros speedrunner manages machine-level perfection until the world record gets killed by a single bad jump: "I don't even f***ing care"
By Dustin Bailey published
News We're still just 22 frames away from literal perfection

Sega exec admits Sonic has never been as popular as his biggest rival and wants to change that: "Quite simply, I want to surpass Mario"
By Jordan Gerblick published
news "Because we respect Mario, our goal is to catch up and surpass him"
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