Super Mario Bros: The game that started it all is still available on Nintendo Switch.

Rarely has that moustache looked so resplendent, especially when it's paired with a bright yellow cape. Aside from introducing Yoshi to the world, this launch game for 1990's Super Nintendo Entertainment System benefits from that console's 16-bit graphical effervescence.

Super Mario World: Unlike many of Mario's early years outings, Super Mario World still holds up remarkably well.

Whether you’re revisiting it for nostalgia’s sake or taking a first trip to one of the most important games ever created, this is still a stone cold classic. With more colour, more creativity and most importantly more variety than either of its two predecessors, even though it was made by just eleven people – the lead designer being Nintendo’s Mario maestro, Shigeru Miyamoto.

Super Mario Bros 3: Bros 3 changed the world of video games way back in 1988.

Want to know where to start with Mario's endeavours on the subscription service? Look no further… That means those games outside of the ever-expanding Nintendo Switch Online catalogue, which now encompasses the majority of the Chris Pratt impersonator's back catalogue. Below are just some of the hot takes.For reasons of sheer brevity, we're kept our ranking to those Mario games that have been released specifically for the Nintendo Switch.

and has resulted in many on Twitter being not too nice about Funkyzeit Games' take on the famous Italian platforming plumber. It actually looks more Crash Bandicoot than Super Mario Bros. Take a look for yourself in the video below. It's shadowy, spooky and, well… the opposite of everything Mario should be - it's Bizarro. The game demo, which is completely non-commercial, shows a highly detailed, dark 'Bizarro' Mario jumping on blocks before launching fiery shots at Goombas and turning them to roasted balls of goo. In fact Funkyzeit Games' Super Mario RTX UE5 demo looks more like the Mario movie starring Bob Hoskins from the '90s than the colourful chaos we all love Nintendo's mascot for. It's everything a Mario game shouldn't be. The hyper-realism generated by Unreal Engine 5 means many games made in the graphics engine look very real, often dark and cast in lifelike lighting and shadows.

But should it be used to make a Mario game? Maybe not. Unreal Engine 5 is the latest high-end tech from Epic and is being used to make some truly lifelike games, and will absolutely be the game engine most developers will opt for when levelling up their characters on PS5.

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