Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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The 2D Mario Series is a complicated beast to analyze. The flagship series, from the flagship mascot, of the flagship company in the gaming industry. 2D Mario is video games. After years in the New Super Mario Bros purgatory, Super Mario Bros Wonder promised to be the great next step in the long royal lineage of Mario. However I can’t help but ask, is this really the game they should have made?

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0:00 Intro
1:30 Chapter 1: The Spark in the Engine
2:23 The First Mario
3:42 The Turning Point
5:54 Something New?
9:03 Mario the Idea
11:54 Chapter 2: The Restrictor Plate
13:09 Victory Lap
15:08 The Mario Wonder Problem
17:38 The 2D Mario Problem
22:05 Chapter 3: The Assembly Line
22:44 The 3D World
25:04 Infinite Mario Theorem
27:29 Something New

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