Several Super Mario Classics Are Reportedly Set To Be Remastered

In what can only be described as Exciting News, Actually, reports have emerged that Nintendo is planning a Super Mario remastering feast as part of the mascot’s 35th anniversary – the original having debuted in Japan in September 1985. I was five years old. I was happy, then.

Where was I… Ah, . Or more pertinently, a host of Super Mario games. VGC reports today that sources close to Nintendo have been making wholly believable whispers about the mainline Super Mario series’ anniversary being marked by a slew of Switch-destined remasters.

And you know the caliber of classics we’re talking about here, right? , and its sequel. . . That one on the GameCube that some of us don’t like to talk about. You know the one. Check out our ranking of all the mainline Super Mario games here, and argue with us another time.

Several Super Mario Classics Are Reportedly Set To Be Remastered
Super Mario 64: yes, please, Nintendo!

Because right now, it’s all about this news. VGC cites “multiple sources” as it claims that “most of” the Super Mario back catalogue will be released, remastered, in 2020, for the Nintendo Switch. Additionally, all-new Mario games are forthcoming, including a new entry in the Paper Mario series.

Complementing the news of the games will be an update on the in-development Mario movie – an animated feature, being produced by Universal Pictures – and further details on the Super Nintendo World theme parks, one of which is in Japan, and the other the USA.

But! Before you all race away to tell your nearest and dearest this great news, remember please that while VGC is a site of great repute, until Nintendo themselves confirm anything, we just don’t know. Given how worked up some fans of all things Mario get when there hasn’t been a Nintendo Direct for a while (although, we did just have one, just last week), it’s advisable to keep your hype on the down-low.

Several Super Mario Classics Are Reportedly Set To Be Remastered
Super Mario 3D World: on my Switch, oh Nintendo, you are spoiling me

Reaching out for comment from Nintendo, on these rumours, VGC was told by a representative that the company – Nintendo, that is – “does not comment on rumour and speculation”. (I’d give them a shout too, since we’re probably speaking to the same person, but I’d only get the same answer.) But given that June’s E3 has been cancelled, it could well be that we see the first confirmed details of this 35th anniversary activity in the summertime, around the time that E3 was supposed to happen.

A Super Mario-themed Nintendo Direct in a few months’ time? You can feel it in your F.L.U.D.D., can’t you? Personally, I’d love to see get a properly sanctioned remaster, but not a , please – I want those blocks to stay blocky, if you get me.

But if we’re talking remakes, if can receive a frankly fantastic one, why not another Game Boy banger in the shape of ? So, very, up for it.

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