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VB Mario Land, also known as Mario Adventure by some, was a planned but canceled platformer for Nintendo’s Virtual Boy, a short-lived 1995 console that aimed to deliver stereoscopic 3D gaming with its signature red-and-black visuals.
Nintendo’s Mario Kart World Direct today was essentially a 15-minute showcase focused on the upcoming Switch 2 exclusive, set to launch on June 5, 2025. For the first time in the series, Mario Kart World features a vast, interconnected world where courses are linked by roads. Players can drive between tracks, especially in Grand Prix mode, where you navigate from one course to the next as part of the experience.
Mario Kart World is the next installment in the franchise, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch 2. Unlike previous games that stuck to traditional track-based racing, this one introduces a vast, interconnected open-world environment.
If a Super Mario 64 remake just isn’t your cup of tea, this fan-made Super Mario Bros. PC port will soon be released. Not much information has been revealed, but from a short gameplay video, we can see that you’re able to select from various languages, choose a different aspect ratio, and show FPS.
The Lego Super Mario: Mario Kart – Mario & Standard Kart set (72037) celebrates MAR10 Day in grand fashion. This 1,972 piece set lets fans recreate Mario in his Standard Kart and includes a posable figure with a movable head as well as arms.
FamicomCD has just released a playable demo of Super Mario Bros. CD that can be used on actual hardware or emulators. It’s basically a ROM hack of Super Mario World and shows what the game could have looked like on a CD-based NES add-on.
Jakks’ Nintendo Mario Kart 8 Luigi Mini Anti-Gravity R/C Racer can either be put on display or just driven around the house, and it’s being offered for just $21.99, originally $39.99. Fans can either race in standard mode or flip into anti-gravity mode to perform drifts and tricks at the push of a button. Product page.
Super Mario Eclipse has finally been released after being in development for 4-years, and it’s currently the largest Super Mario Sunshine mod yet. For starters, you’ll find 120 all-new shines, three playable characters, new movement mechanics, an improved game engine, and remixed boss fights.
Sure, the Super Mario 64 PC port may have been taken down, but this fan-made Super Mario and the Rainbow Stars game has 7 chapters and still available…for now. Put simply, it attempts to combine the best of Paper Mario as well as the Mario and Luigi series into a side-scrolling 2D platformer.
