![]() You’ll be happy to know that this this feature isn’t about me though – it’s a retrospective on a game that gave the world’s most famous plumber a new lick of paint, reinvented the platforming genre for the 21st century and has spawned a long-lasting legacy that continues to influence Nintendo’s approach to creating games, ten years on.Īt the time of New Super Mario Bros.‘s release in 2006, it had been a good long while – almost 15 years – since the plucky moustachioed hero had put on his platforming overalls (the side-scrolling variety, to be precise) aside from a variety of remakes and re-releases on the Game Boy Advance, home console outings were limited exclusively to a 3D space, with 2004’s Super Mario Sunshine being the only mainline title in the Super Mario series to release on the platform. Bloody hell, I feel old all of a sudden! To put into perspective how much of a whippersnapper I am, I hadn’t even been alive for a decade when Nintendo released what at the time was their first side-scrolling Mario platformer since 1992. ![]() I have to start this retrospective on a personal note – New Super Mario Bros.
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