When I was 10 I bought a little electronic game that featured two men in dungarees frantically running up and down ladders as they passed cakes along a conveyor belt from an oven into a white van. Engraved on the front of that flip-open game was the eponymous title Super Mario Bros. Thus Mario and Luigi had arrived. At least in my world they had. Very soon I was rescuing Princess, killing Bowser, jumping on turtles, racing in cars against Donkey Kong and Toad and generally having a lot of fun with my two new plumber friends. And there is still a lot of Mario fun to be had, even without a Nintendo. Enjoy:
- Super Mario World Deluxe – If your thumbs weren’t bleeding you weren’t serious
- Super Mario 3 – Incredible recreation with joystick option
- Super Mario, Blue Twilight – Interesting unofficial reincarnation
- ZSNES – Super Nintendo emulator with Super Mario Kart
- Secret Maryo Chronicles Open Source version with level editor
- Super Mario War Mario goes psycho in this deathmatch edition
- Whack-A-Monty (Pocket PC) – Hidden Mario game for mobile phones
- Super Goboy (Symbian) – Gameboy emulator with Mario and Zelda
