Paper Mario, known in Japanese as Mario Story and originally known as Super Mario RPG 2, is a role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 game console. Paper Mario is set in the Mushroom Kingdom as the protagonist Mario tries to rescue Princess...
Like its predecessors in the Splatoon series, the game consists of competitive online multiplayer matches alongside a story-driven single-player mode. Returning from the previous game is the ability for players to choose between "Inklings" and "Octolings" as their player character. Inklings also have...
"Hit the road with the definitive version of Mario Kart 8 and play anytime, anywhere! Race your friends or battle them in a revised battle mode on new and returning battle courses. Play locally in up to 4-player multiplayer in 1080p while playing in TV Mode. Every track from the Wii U version, including...
The series is notable for its open-ended gameplay and extensive use of the game systems' internal clock and calendar to simulate real passage of time. Thus, passage of time in the game world reflects that in reality, as well as the current season and time of day. The player's house can also be furnished,...
In the game, Mario explores Princess Peach's castle and must rescue her from Bowser. As one of the earlier three-dimensional (3D) platform games, Super Mario 64 is based on open world playability, degrees of freedom through all three axes in space, and relatively large areas which are composed primarily...
It was released in Japan on April 27, 2000, in North America on October 26, 2000, and in Europe on November 17, 2000. Approximately 314,000 copies of the game were sold during its first week in Japan, and three million copies were sold worldwide. The game was rereleased for the GameCube as part of The...
The game was later released for the Wii Virtual Console in Japan in October 2009 and in North America and Europe in May 2010 while the Wii U Virtual Console version was released in Japan on May 1, 2013 and in North America and Europe on May 23, 2013, although the Wii U Europe users get the North American...
Fire Emblem Heroes is a free-to-play tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and Nintendo for iOS and Android devices. Beginning with a grid map that measures 8x6, players are able to summon characters from the Fire Emblem series to attack opposing enemies. Players are free to create...
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 will feature a narrative centered on a new cast of characters, depicting the respective futures of the worlds featured in Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Set after the events of Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 , Xenoblade Chronicles 3 takes place...
Mario Party is a party video game series featuring Mario franchise characters in which four human- or computer-controlled characters compete in a board game interspersed with minigames. After the development of Mario Party 8, several of Hudson Soft's key designers left to work for Nintendo subsidiary...
Instead of continuing to use the side-scrolling perspective introduced to the series by Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, A Link to the Past reverts to an overhead perspective similar to that of the original. While A Link to the Past still uses mechanics and concepts from the original game, it also introduces...
Splatoon is a third person shooter for the Nintendo Wii U. Its primary mechanic revolves around covering things in ink and your ability to swim through that ink. Swimming through ink enables you to swim up walls, hide in ink puddles, etc., allowing for complex gameplay mechanics you don't normally get...
Mario Kart 8 is a kart racing game and the eighth major installment in the Mario Kart series, developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii U video game console. Like other games in the series, in Mario Kart 8, players control characters from the Mario franchise and participate in kart racing on various...
The series debuted in Japan on September 26, 1986, with the release for the Family Computer Disk System , followed by an alternate version for the MSX2 platform on October 30. The Castlevania titles have been released on various platforms, from early systems including the Nintendo Entertainment System...
Endless Ocean is a video game for the Wii. It is published by Nintendo and was developed by Arika. Arika, the game's developer, previously released the games Everblue and Everblue 2 for the Playstation 2. Endless Ocean places the player in the role of a scuba diver exploring the Manaurai sea[Note 1]...
[game]Super Mario Bros.[/game][a] is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo as a pseudo-sequel to the 1983 game, Mario Bros. It is the first of the Super Mario series of games. In 2005, IGN's poll named the "pioneering" and "highly influential" title as the "greatest...
Super Mario Maker lets people’s imaginations run wild. For the first time ever, friends can have fun playing through levels they create for one another. The Wii U GamePad controller makes it so easy for anyone to create levels; it may feel like simply sketching out ideas on paper. Players can...
The games follow an independent mercenary unit of anthropomorphic animals called Star Fox, led by chief protagonist Fox McCloud, and their adventures around the Lylat system. The Super FX Chip was an additional math co-processor that was built into the cartridge and helped the Super NES better render...
Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle video game, originally designed and programmed by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov. The Tetris game is a popular use of tetrominoes, the four-element special case of polyominoes. In January 2010, it was announced that the Tetris franchise had sold more than 170 million...
In an all new 2D side-scrolling adventure, Mario and Luigi return after nearly fifteen years. The first traditional Mario Bros. game since Super Mario World. The character models are rendered in real time 3D, allowing for a far greater number of moves ever before seen in a Mario Bros. title. Also...
Ultimate is a 2018 crossover fighting game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the fifth installment in the Super Smash Bros. series, succeeding Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. The game follows the series' traditional...
Fire Emblem Engage is an upcoming tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the seventeenth installment in the Fire Emblem series. Engage is set on the continent of Elyos and features previous protagonists of the series that...
Super Metroid is an 2D, side-scrolling action-adventure game, which primarily takes place on the fictional planet Zebes—a large, open-ended world with areas connected by doors and elevators. The player controls Samus Aran as she searches the planet for a Metroid that was stolen by Ridley, the...
