mario

I am a huge Super Mario Bros fan. Always have been and always will be. It was a big part of my childhood--heck, my friends and I thought we were Mario and Luigi--so I put together this tribute song, You Give Me Sunshine.

Thanks to research conducted at the German University of Tuebingen, we now have an AI-controlled Mario who can stomp Goombas on his own.

If our weekly Ask Chris column isn't enough of definitive comic book (and pro wrestling) opinions for you, good news: ComicsAlliance is proud to present Here's The Thing, a series of videos where you can join our own extremely opinionated senior writer, Chris Sims, as he dives into comics history to explain why you're wrong and he's right. This week, Chris takes a look at one of his favorite characters: Mario, the high-jumping, kart racing, princess-rescuing plumber from Nintendo's enduringly popular Super Mario Bros. games and spinoffs. ! He loves that guy, and odds are pretty good that you do too. But why? And how much of a character does Mario really have?

If you were a kid in the '90s and you wanted to find out more about Mario once you were done with the video games, you pretty much had two choices: Sitting through a half hour of dance instructions from "Captain" Lou Albano, or flipping through the pages of Valiant's Nintendo Comics System/Super Mario Bros. comics, where Mario and Luigi frequently got into bizarre adventures alongside Peach's weird old dad. Needless to say, these comics were never really acknowledged in the video games. Or were they?!

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I have devoted a pretty significant portion of my life to rescuing Princess Peach of the Mushroom Kingdom, and, as I have noted so many times before, I grew up a Street Fighter partisan, with Sakura being one of my all-time favorite characters. As a result, I am immediately and automatically down for anything that combines those two characters, no questions asked. It's my weak point, like if I was

According to the 13,000 gamers who voted on the Guinness World Records’ website, Mario is the greatest video game character of all time. The plumber with amazing leaping abilities edged out another Nintendo favorite, Link, from “Legend of Zelda,” for the top spot. All told, Nintendo had 11 characters among the top 50. The survey was done for the book “Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer’s Editio