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Best Mario Sports Games Of All Time

Best Mario Sports Games Of All Time

Nintendo’s mascot has never been shy of a spin-off, and while his karting exploits — not to mention his world-renowned penchant for a party — tend to grab all the attention and the biggest sales, Mario and co. have a long, rich history of starring in Nintendo sports games, too.

But what’s the best Mario sports game? We’ve compiled this ranked list of every Mario sports game covering everything from the premier league to the lowly feeder divisions, from the courtside seats to the nosebleeds!

Below you’ll find every Mario sport game, ranked from worst to best, featuring the Mushroom Kingdom crew, including his trips to the Olympic Games when he teams up with Sonic and his Sega posse. If it’s a sports game and it’s got Mario in the title, you’ll find it here.

It’s time for the first shot/throw/kick/serve, then – let’s see who takes home a medal and who’s up for relegation. We begin at the bottom of the table…

And there’s the whistle! Or the winning point! Or, erm, the final golfer has entered the clubhouse. It’s time for the medal ceremony, to shake hands with royals, pick up a shiny plate and all that game.

Before we walk around the pitch kissing a trophy and shaking it at the crowd for 45 minutes, let’s hit the pundit box to answer a few common questions.

Technically, the first Mario sports game was NES Open Golf Tournament — known as Mario Open Golf in Japan — which released for the Famicom on 20th September 1991, with the NES version following in North America soon after and Europe teeing up in June 1992.

A 1991 Nintendo Players Guide called Mario Mania flagged the player character of 1985’s Golf as everyone’s favourite plumber, although there’s no such mention in the game or its manual and in Japan this Mario-like character was known as Ossan (who turned up years later in Captain Rainbow).

However, the Western box art for the 1989/1990 Game Boy port of Golf clearly shows Mario hitting a ball onto the green, so the first sports game starring Mario is open to debate!

The first Mario sports game released internationally with ‘Mario’ in the title in every territory was Camelot’s Mario Golf for N64, which launched in Japan on 11th June 1999.

However, further complicating things, Mario cameoed in various Nintendo sports games since the early Famicom days. More on that after the break…

Over the years, Mario has popped up in various sports games – and he’s even playable in some of them.

Many early Nintendo games featured him in some capacity, as a referee for example (Tennis, Punch-Out!!).

A few console generations later, Mario Luigi, and Peach would pop up as playable characters in EA’s NBA Street V3 and SSX On Tour for GameCube. But these aren’t Mario Sports games just because there are Mario characters in them!

Here’s a list of all the Mario sports games currently playable on Switch with an NSO subscription.

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