Mario 101: For Super Players

This is not a Super Mario blog. This is a video game history blog that can and should encompass all games. That said, there are a lot of Super Mario games and I do play most of them, so if I’m writing all this based on my own interests, Mario is going to come up a lot. That’s why Mario seemed like the most logical way to celebrate my 100th post. Instead, that post ended up being about Legend of Zelda, and then I kept writing, so I guess this is celebrating the 137th post on this blog, which is less of a milestone, I admit. This particular project is about the history of Mario, his games and the various associated spinoffs. You will find some history you know, some history you don’t, and in more than one case, contradicting stories that suggest that there’s more to the story than the popular version that usually gets told. While I do talk about the entire series, I move more or less chronologically, starting with Donkey Kong and only really getting as far as Yoshi’s Island and Donkey…