The best Super Mario games of all time
The best Super Mario games of all time
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Happy MAR10! Well, almost. Mario Day is on March 10, so we’re republishing our list of the best mainline games starring a plumber.


Which is the best Mario game ever? Where do you even begin to rank all the Mario games?

Let’s face it, anyone in the top 10 could legitimately take the top spot. Any of them could easy and understandably being someone’s ‘best game of all time’, and there will always be someone who believes the series peaked with The Lost Levels. That’s an opinion and you have the right to it!

So get the definitive ‘Best Mario Game’, we asked you dear Nintendo Life readers to rate the top Mario games you’ve played and the result is the ranked list you see below. Remember: the order below is updated in real time according to the user rating of each game on Nintendo Life. You can influence the order of this list at any time! Feel free to rate the ones you’ve played with a score out of ten by clicking on the ‘star’ button. And, if you’re interested in the personal views of the Nintendo Life team, check out our video at the very end of the article, but the list below is based on the opinions of your wonderful group. To enjoy!

You can check out our picks for the best Zelda games and the best Pokémon games elsewhere, but without further ado, here’s our list of the best Super Mario games — as rated by you, dear readers…


Note. We’ve included all the major Super Mario platformers (both 2D and 3D), plus Mario Run (hey, it’s an official Super Mario platformer!), but you won’t see any spin-offs or sports titles here. We’ve excluded Yoshi’s Island, despite its official name, for the same reason that Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 isn’t — both games are spin-offs that, names aside, are sorely lacking in the Super Mario department.

We’ve also taken the liberty of excluding compilations and certain ports to avoid repetition (eg the GBA ‘Advance’ ports), plus switching to Switch versions of New Super Mario Bros. In and Super Mario 3D World.

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