There is no denying that Mario tennis games have a legacy. I grew up playing Mario Tennis on the Nintendo 64 and later on the GameCube, enjoying its simple mechanics and character-driven matches.

Mario Tennis Fever doesn't solve all the recent issues from the Mario sports genre, but it's a step in the right direction.

Next week's annual celebration of Super Mario will be marked by the return of three retro games via Nintendo Switch Online.

Distinguishing Mario sports games from their real-world, licensed competitors — or from Nintendo’s own Wii and Switch Sports series of motion-control games — can be tricky. Nintendo and Camelot ...

For decades, Nintendo has proven that it can turn almost any real-world sport into something playful, chaotic, and unmistakably Mario. The red-capped plumber has done it all: tennis, golf, baseball, ...

From Pong to NES Baseball, the infancy of the medium was littered with just-about-recognisable renditions of real-life sports in an attempt to conjure a degree of familiarity to this fledgling form of ...

Mario Tennis Fever makes a good argument that less can be more in the context of family-friendly sports games. The Nintendo Switch 2-exclusive title from Nintendo and longtime series developer Camelot ...

Another Super Bowl has come and gone, which means another year where I wonder why we don't have a Super Mario football game. It's an unusual gap in the otherwise-illustrious athletic career of ...