In 2006, the original New Super Mario Bros. opened up 2D Mario to an entirely new generation ... self-evident or arrived at through natural evolution. Nintendo absolutely nailed the formula ...

Can Super Mario teach you to think? That’s the idea behind using a simple version of the game to teach artificial intelligence. [Oddball] calls this The Mario Genome and wrote at program that ...

That’s seen in how Mario moves his 2D frame in a three-dimensional world. The developers deftly created a papercraft environment and filled it with puzzles with different themes. The Great Sea ...