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Wednesday15th May 2024
News Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Library With Three More Classics
Japan receives one extra game
Nintendo has expanded the Switch Online Game Boy library today with three more classic titles today. The latest batch of titles includes the platformer Super Mario Land, the Breakout-like release Alleyway, and the sports game Baseball. All of these were released in 1989 and line up with the Game Boy's 35th anniversary...
Wednesday11th Jan 2023
Random YouTuber Speedruns Touching Grass (In Every Mario Game)
Ground theme
"Touch grass" has become the rallying cry for angry people on the internet, and it's most often levelled at gamers. It's shorthand for "go outside", or simply "oh my god the thing you're complaining about is SO TERMINALLY ONLINE that you really should go and do something that isn't sitting at your computer yelling at strangers on the...
Monday8th Aug 2022
Random Fan Reimagines Sonic As A 'Shredder's Revenge' Style Beat-Em-Up
Oof, yes please!
Just recently, we showcased the work of a talented pixel artist who reimagined the classic Game Boy title Super Mario Land on the handheld's successor, the Game Boy Advance. It was a lovely depiction of the game with stunning sprites and vivid colours, and now the artist has turned their attention to the Sonic franchise. Posting a...
Tuesday2nd Aug 2022
Random Pixel Artist Reimagines Super Mario Land Series For Game Boy Advance
And it looks amazing!
The Super Mario Land series for the original Game Boy might not necessarily be quite as well known as the major entries on consoles, but it was also an introduction to the world of Mario for many Nintendo fans at the time. Unfortunately, we only got three entries in this series, and from the third game onwards, Wario sort of...
Monday18th Jul 2022
Video What Was Your First Video Game Ever?
Go on and tell us!
Depending on how long you've been gaming, whether or not you remember your very first video game might be a surprisingly tricky question to answer. Some of you in our lovely Nintendo Life community may be on the younger side, in which case your first game could have been from the GameCube era, or perhaps even the Wii. Others, of...
Monday28th Sep 2020
Anniversary Super Mario Land Launched 30 Years Ago Today In Europe
Mario's first portable platformer
Here's our fancy Japanese version, because we're show-offs... Believe it or not, today marks the 30th anniversary of Super Mario Land's launch on the trusty Game Boy in Europe. Developed as a Game Boy launch title, Super Mario Land offered Mario his very first outing in a portable platformer. It was a truly...
Monday3rd Aug 2020
News Zelda, Mario And Animal Crossing Appear In Latest My Nintendo Rewards (Europe)
Plus some of the most popular 3DS themes
The latest batch of My Nintendo game discounts for Europe has now gone live, giving players the usual chance to grab a handful of games at reduced prices. There are some pretty big names on the list this time around, with major Mario, Zelda and Animal Crossing games all available at discounted rates. As...
Thursday21st Nov 2019
Random Super Mario Land Has Been Ported To The SNES, And It Looks Amazing
If only it were official
Super Mario Land is one of the most beloved entries in the early Mario canon, despite the fact you can finish it in an evening and it has rather crude visuals, even by Game Boy standards. Still, it was, for many gamers, their first taste of 'Mario-on-the-move', and its gloriously oddball shooter levels, engaging soundtrack...
Friday2nd Aug 2019
News Get Discounts On Super Mario Games And More With My Nintendo Rewards (Europe)
Including a Game & Watch collection
The latest batch of My Nintendo game discounts for Europe has now gone live, giving players the usual chance to grab a handful of games at discounted prices. There are a handful of Super Mario games to choose from this time around, as well as a couple of Yo-Kai Watch games and more. As always, you can take...
Monday6th May 2019
Random Game Boy Classic Super Mario Land Gets A Fan-Made DX Update
A splash of colour, plus a facelift!
Everyone found ways to celebrate the Game Boy's 30th anniversary (we certainly contributed our share) but toruzz's effort certainly went above and beyond. Nintendo never gave us an updated 'DX' edition of their first Mario outing on the Game Boy, but if it did, it might just look a bit like this. Sarasaland...
Thursday24th Jan 2019
Video The History Of The Super Mario Land Series
The first Mario without Miyamoto
Mario has had a long and illustrious career, from 1985's Super Mario Bros. - in which Mario must save Princess Toadstool from Bowser - right up until 2018's New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, where things are almost creepily familiar. One short stint of this career, lasting from 1989 to 1994, was the Super Mario Land...
Wednesday1st Aug 2018
News Super Mario Land And Sushi Striker Feature In The Latest European My Nintendo Rewards
Discounts, wallpapers and themes
The latest batch of My Nintendo rewards have now gone live in Europe, with a small selection of 3DS games - and one Wii U game - being offered at a discounted price alongside a new set of wallpapers and a 3DS theme. Here's the full list of games that have been added to the site today, alongside those all-important...
Monday13th Nov 2017
Random Looking Back On That Time When Mario Gatecrashed The UK Music Charts
"We were shown into their boardroom, and in walked Miyamoto himself"
We don't see many of them these days but once upon a time video games were prime inspiration for novelty songs. Titles like Pac-Man and Space Invaders both inspired popular singles, and in 1992 the situation was no different as tracks based on both Super Mario Land and Tetris...
Thursday26th Oct 2017
Random Mario Inadvertently Exposed Himself In An Officially Licensed '80s Comic
And to think we got all worked up about nipples
The world may have lost its mind about seeing Mario's nipples in Super Mario Odyssey, but it turns out that Nintendo's mascot has shown off a lot more in the past. Kotaku has unearthed a Japanese manga from the late '80s in which Mario shows off his Crown Jewels.
Wednesday7th Jun 2017
Random Miyamoto Was Once Quite Interested In PSP Game Boy Emulation
"Did you make this?"
While we're a Nintendo site first and foremost, here at Nintendo Life we do occasionally embrace formats produced by other companies - and back in the days of the Nintendo DS, we admit we also dabbled in the world of PlayStation Portable ownership. Sony's handheld was a massive success, despite the incredible dominance of the...
Thursday5th Jan 2017
Video Super Mario Land Gets the Super Mario Maker Treatment
Koopa Troopas with bombs on their backs...
Super Mario Land is one of the quirkier Mario titles, developed for Game Boy by a team led by Gunpei Yokoi. The Mario 'style' was still taking shape at that time and the first portable entry went its own way, even including some shoot 'em up-style levels for good measure. It would have two equally diverse...
Saturday21st Sep 2013
News Former Nintendo Composer Dedicates Retro Remixes to Hiroshi Yamauchi
Super Mario Land and Metroid both given special new tracks
Earlier this week former Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi passed away at 85 years of age. He'd led the company from 1949 to 2002, overseeing a revolution as Nintendo became the world's leading video game console manufacturer. By leading Nintendo to such success in the industry,...
Tuesday24th Jul 2012
News Retro Mario Discounts Jumping Onto North American eShop
Celebrating New Super Mario Bros. 2
When it comes to New Super Mario Bros. 2, you'd have to live in a deep, dark cave to not know about it. Trailers and videos swarm the web and its status as the first retail download being offered by Nintendo has given it even more profile. Still, that won't stop Nintendo of America doing some additional marketing...
Friday21st Jan 2011
First Impressions 3DS Virtual Console
Time travel meets blur-o-vision
Virtually nothing is known about how the 3DS will handle its new eShop apart from that it will eventually offer a Virtual Console for Game Boy and Game Boy Color software, and in New York City and Amsterdam this past Wednesday Nintendo Life was able to test out a couple of games confirmed for Shop shelves: Super Mario...
