
We learn to shake the Wii remote to make Mario fly or pick up an item in appropriate circumstances, but by and large the game is simply about running and jumping.


That's pretty much all you need to know to get going and start breaking bricks, flattening goombas, and leaping to the tops of flag poles as you chase after the perpetually kidnapped Princess Peach.Īnd, to Nintendo's credit, it never gets much more complex than that. We all know the drill: The d-pad makes Mario move, the "1" button makes him run, and the "2" button makes him jump. games that helped make Nintendo the behemoth gaming company it is today, it's a decidedly old-school two-dimensional side-scrolling platformer - what my school chums used to call a "run-to-the-right" game back in the day - that features music, graphics, and play mechanics that almost anyone who has ever wielded a game controller will instantly recognize. Wii (Publisher/Developer: Nintendo/ESRB: E), the game that will serve as Nintendo's primary hardware seller this holiday, is that it's about as familiar as a game can be without a player actually having played it before.Īn unapologetic homage to the nearly quarter-century-old Super Mario Bros. The marvellous thing about New Super Mario Bros.
