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MARIO MEMORIES
The Retro Gamer team revisit the games of Nintendo’s iconic superstar
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» [Nintendo 64] Super Mario 64 was a huge deal, for platformers and 3D games in general.
Mario is arguably one of the most recognisable videogame stars on the planet and has appeared in some of the greatest platformers of all time. With the recent release of Super Mario Wonder, the team felt like paying tribute to gaming’s most famous plumber.
DARRAN
What’s your earliest memory of a Mario game?
TIM
Playing Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros in Jeffers
toy shop in Portadown on one of those demo stations. And then crying because my mum wouldn’t let me spend money on a really cool Battle Of The Planets toy. Gutted!
Super Mario Land was the defining Mario game for me as a kid
NICK THORPE
NICK
Donkey
Kong
for the Atari 2600 was one of the very first games I ever played, but does that really count, given that I didn’t know it was a Mario game back then?