The best Super Mario games: from Bros. to Odyssey, NES to Switch

With numerous reports this week revealing that Nintendo is planning to celebrate Mario’s 30th anniversary by launching the platform plumbing catalog on Switch, it’s time to rank the best Mario games. This is a difficult thing to do on some levels.

because the 2D and 3D Mario games are so fundamentally different that they are difficult to compare, not to mention the number of genre games in which the portly plumber has appeared.

Still, we ranked them anyway, based on a quick poll of TechRadar team favorites. While we ponder the inclusion of spin-offs in this, like the Paper Mario series, instead, we limit ourselves to mainline entries for both series. We can’t wait to play all of this on Switch.