Going into 1981, Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto was facing a problem. Working on one of his first games ever, he hoped to use Popeye, the famed sailor of 1930s cartoons, to serve as the hero.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is already breaking box office records left and right. Fans of the animated Nintendo adaptation, both young and old, are flocking to movie theaters. One reason the first ...

I totally agree with him. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Light spoilers for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie lie ahead. The Super ...

Jack Black’s silly little ditty has backing vocals, if we can call them that. They’re performed by co-stars Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Brie Larson, Charlie Day, and Donald Glover. Below are the ...

An Easter Egg roundup implies there are cute, little references buried within the larger plot, and you could possibly miss them (because they're hidden) if you don't look closely enough. But The Super ...

"The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" is dominating at the box office. The animated sequel, based on the Nintendo video games, debuted to an impressive $190.1 million in North American theaters for the ...

Power-ups have always been one of the main appeals of the Super Mario games, and the animated universe crafted by Nintendo and Illumination incorporated that mechanic seemingly into the story. The ...

Players still plugged into Super Mario Maker 2 have accused Nintendo of suddenly removing "thousands" of user-made levels, which the company has apparently claimed broke its rules on advertising.

SUNDAY AM WRITETHROUGH after Saturday update: Keep refreshing Illumination/Nintendo/Universal‘s Super Mario Galaxy Movie has revived tentpoles even further than ...

George Washingtoad’s only appearance in any piece of Mario media came in a 1989 episode of the Saturday morning cartoon The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! The episode begins with Mario’s narration: ...

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is a frantic speed run from one end of the Mario galaxy to the other and back again, packed with so many cameos, references, and bits of comic business that it doesn’t ...

Shane Romanchick is a writer at GameRant. He graduated from Regis College in 2019 with a bachelor's in communication. Alongside this, he minored in both film studies and writing. This led to Shane ...