One of the coolest gifts I got for Christmas was Nintendo's Game & Watch. It's a limited release device to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the release of Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo Entertainment Center.
The Russian block-matching puzzle game Tetris took the world by storm in the late 1980s when it was released on Nintendo's NES and Gameboy platforms. And we think we've found one of the best players around.
Well, color us impressed. Usually when we want to play Mario Kart, we spend thirty minutes looking for the Wii steering wheel, then just give up and re-watch the second season of 'Game of Thrones.' So, good for these guys! They've got enough initiative to make up for the rest of us...
Maybe it's just that I grew up in the Smoky Mountains, in East Tennessee. Maybe it's that I played a lot of Nintendo as a kid. But something about this spoke to my heart.
With all of the iterations of Mario Bros. and the spin offs it has produced, it should be no surprise to anyone that Mario has been voted as the greatest video game character of all time.
Easily one of the most recognizable characters throughout several generations of gamers, the familiar red hatted plumber has become an icon among even those who would be considered casual gamers.