Top 5 Mario Games

Ah yes, one of the Nintendo's beloved franchises of all time that defines gaming and of course Mario is the most iconic video game mascots that everybody loves it. We have so many best Mario games out there since back in our childhood years, so we know that Shigeru Miyamoto did a fantastic job with Mario games that we all enjoy playing it on Nintendo consoles.

What makes Mario series so memorable is jumping on goombas, kick the koopa's shells, going through green pipe, collecting coins, using power-ups, unique levels and secrets, and of course it has the best music theme of all time "DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO"

Okay I decided to make my top 5 favourite Mario games on my list, so this is my opinion and I hope you might like it, so please enjoy my top 5 favourites.

5 - Super Mario Sunshine 

        

Super Mario Sunshine is the great 3D platformer game for Nintendo Gamecube. 

This game is fun and unique platformer with excellent open world levels to explore, so it has nice variety of levels with puzzled looking stages, finding the hidden levels, and boss stages is definitely worth challenging to play. I love using the fludd because it can spray water to clean the whole city and it felt very effective to attack the gooey enemies. I love collecting star shine from the different places and having fun going to any levels to mess around that never gets boring at all, so this is definitely recommended for Gamecube owners, that haven't played this game for long time or never played the game before, should try this game out.

4 - Super Mario All-Stars

Super Mario All-Stars for SNES is the best remakes of Super Mario Bros series from the original NES.

This game offers the better graphics, updated sounds, and additional save mechanisms to take advantage of the SNES hardware.

This collections has Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 2, Super Mario Bros 3, and it includes japanese-exclusive release of Super Mario Bros 2, which known as Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels for international release.

I've enjoyed the first Super Mario Bros because it has fantastic levels, so many enemies to avoid, finding secret levels, and I love the theme music that keeps me playing this game. I love the Lost Levels with brand new stages, but it's more harder than the original Super Mario Bros.

I say Super Mario Bros 2 is another great sequel to original because you can play as 3 of the new characters, like Luigi that jumps so high, Toad that jumps lower compared to Mario, and Princess Peach that has abilities to float in the air, which sounds cool. I like how you pick up the objects and throw it at your enemies is the nice addition for this game and having the boss fight with Birdo are quite fun to play, even it's damn too easy to kill, but still awesome as hell. 

Super Mario Bros 3 is beyond best on the Super Mario Bros series because you can select any stages on map screen, more variety of levels turns bigger than was before, using new power-ups, having an abilities to swim, climb, sliding, throwing, and floating is the biggest improvements for gameplay overall. I also enjoyed 2 player co-op for this game, especially the 2 player battle is quite enjoyable.

Super Mario All-Stars is definitely must buy for the SNES collections.  

3 - Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

       

I know it's not part of the Mario games it's because you're playing as Yoshi instead of Mario as helpless baby, but c'mon guys, how can you not put Yoshi's Island on the list. It's one of the classy 2D platformer game on SNES featuring with brilliant graphics that Super FX 2 takes advantages of SNES hardware, superb gameplay overall with having abilities to use eggs as throwing attack, swallow or spit out the enemies, using items from the pause menu, using ground pound and pushing the objects, and of course the levels is so damn epic to play with impressive boss fight and intense overall stages. 

It's annoying how Baby Mario won't stop crying while floating with balloon during the gameplay and it's makes you want to rescue him, but NOOO IT'S MAKES YOUR EAR BLEED BECAUSE OF THE BUZZING NOISE, AHH WILL THE BABY MARIO EVER STOP CRYING ALREADY!!!

Anyway it's still a fantastic game for SNES library, so this game has great levels, fun mini game, superb gameplay controls, and it has the best boss stages in the game.   

2 - Super Mario Galaxy Series 

Super Mario Galaxy series is incredible 3D platformer game for Nintendo Wii that blows my mind.

It is one of the most acclaimed game that Nintendo has to offer for Wii owners.

I say that the whole game has higher atmosphere, bright graphics, fun to explore the outer space, and excellent usage with Wii remote and nunchunk makes the overall gameplay control plays very well for platform games.

This game has so much inspiring levels with usage of gravity power, awesome power-ups, very puzzled designed stages, collecting star bits, discovering the new levels, and of course you can collect up to 120 stars to play as Luigi is nice addition for this game that Nintendo puts so much variation of the game.

It is the best Mario game for the Nintendo Wii and you should able to buy this for the Nintendo Wii collections.

1 - Super Mario 64

       

AH YES!!! It's my favorite Mario games ever on my list. Super Mario 64 for Nintendo 64 is the most revolutionary game that changed gaming and it defines the 3D platform genres, so this game is the best example of using the N64 analog stick allowing to give a precised 3D control movements and dynamic camera control allowing to give camera system a superb free look and better camera angle are the most influential video game controls of all time. This game offers a superb 3D levels with free to explore the levels, collecting stars, finding hidden secrets, and the character has an ability to swim on the water, performing triple jump, back flip, long distance jump, using 3 awesome power-ups to make Mario fly with Wing Cap, turns Mario invisible with Invisible Cap, and turns Mario metal with Metal Cap. It has the best graphics on N64 games that allowing N64 system to handle the whole 3D enviroments with well designed levels, so much polished textures and backgrounds, and more usage of colors that makes the game more true to 64 bit era.  

This got to be a most wanted Mario game for the N64 owners out there.