After the discussion of ROM hacks earlier, a post at GoNintendo reminded me of a time when Nintendo themselves produced something akin to a ROM hack of their own. Back in 1986, Nintendo partnered with ...

At E3 2015 the world got its first real taste of how hilarious it can be to watch players struggle through tricky, brutally hard, and downright mean custom-made Mario levels. All of us will get a ...

It was about time (Mario Time) that Super Mario Land for the original Game Boy was revisited. The game served as the entry point into the world of portable gaming for millions, and it was an early ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The new enemy is called "motos" in the game files, similarly to the bullies, who are referred to as "otos" in the source code. With the same big ...

It's a match made in hell: The surprisingly creepy Banjo-Kazooie, a game in which you have to fight a witch and all her minions in order to save your sister from... getting very ugly; and the very ...

ScarlettVixen has officially released Mario Adventure 3, a ROM hack (the legality of playing games with ROMs is nebulous at best) for Super Mario Bros. 3, which has been in development for 20 years.

Hot on the heels of “Mega Maker” comes another creation toolkit, Super Mario 64 Maker, that lets users develop custom Super Mario 64 levels using all of the assets and AI from the 1997 classic. It, ...