Super Mario Bros. 4, featuring the biggest star of the video game world, will be packaged with every 16-bit Super Nintendo set sold. A joint promotion with GamePro TV show and GamePro magazine will guarantee Mario's ongoing popularity. Players will need this "secrets" book to get them through the game.

The Super Mario franchise has been setting trends for more than 30 years, from the 1985 release of Super Mario Bros. to Super Mario Odyssey in 2017. Now Mario, Princess Peach, Bowser, and the crew have made their jump to the Nintendo Switch. This entertaining and informative guide covers everything you should know and love about Super Mario, including character profiles, game play tips, and surprising facts. It also features exclusive tricks for the hot new game Super Mario Odyssey and all the best strategies for Super Mario Run. With full-color screenshots from the latest releases—Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario Run, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe—as well as a look back through decades of adventures, this is a must-have for any fan.

The Reverse Design series looks at all of the design decisions that went into classic video games. This is the third installment in the Reverse Design series, looking at Super Mario World. Written in a readable format, it is broken down into ten sections examining some of the most important topics to the game: 1. The specific level design patterns within Super Mario World that make it such a successful and classic game; 2. Evolutions in the smallest mechanics of the Mario games that give the player more control and allow the designers to more precisely control the level of difficulty in each level; 3. The overall organization of levels into four "skill themes" which are derived from pillars of the game's design--back cover.

In perhaps the most famous switcheroo in all of game history, the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 2 was declared "too hard" by Nintendo of America and replaced with a Mario-ified port of the Famicom hit, Yume Kōjō Doki Doki Panic. The new game (dubbed Super Mario USA in Japan) was a huge success for its four playable characters, improved graphics, immersive levels, and catchy music, and eventually became the 3rd bestselling game for the NES. And yet. Because of its strange new villains, its wild gameplay, and its mysterious touches, SMB2 has for years been regarded as the Odd Mario Out, even as it has seen popular updates on the Super NES and Game Boy Advance. Irwin's Mario is not a simple retelling of a 25-year-old story, but instead an examination of the game with fresh eyes: both as a product of its time and as a welcome change from the larger Super Mario franchise. Along the way he searches for clues, pulling up a few vegetables of his own. What he finds is not at all what he expected.

Experience the zany world of Super Mario through manga! Join Mario and pals in crazy adventures inspired by the hit video games! In this collection of short stories, Mario and Luigi go on adventures that showcase the fan-favorite characters of the Mario world in new, unconventional and hilarious ways. This compilation, handpicked from years of Mario comics in Japan, has never been available in English—until now!

The definitive story of the rise of Nintendo. In 1981, Nintendo of America was a one-year-old business already on the brink of failure. Its president, Mino Arakawa, was stuck with two thousand unsold arcade cabinets for a dud of a game (Radar Scope). So he hatched a plan. Back in Japan, a boyish, shaggy-haired staff artist named Shigeru Miyamoto designed a new game for the unsold cabinets featur­ing an angry gorilla and a small jumping man. Donkey Kong brought in $180 million in its first year alone and launched the career of a short, chubby plumber named Mario. Since then, Mario has starred in over two hundred games, gen­erating profits in the billions. He is more recognizable than Mickey Mouse, yet he’s little more than a mustache in bib overalls. How did a mere smear of pixels gain such huge popularity? Super Mario tells the story behind the Nintendo games millions of us grew up with, explaining how a Japanese trading card company rose to dominate the fiercely competitive video-game industry.