Zelda herself, copying objects and monsters to solve everything.
Snaking, a mission mode and the first Mario Kart people played against strangers online.
Square and Nintendo together in 1996, with Geno and a timed-hit system.
Samus hunted by the SA-X on a research station; the tightest 2D Metroid.
The 1986 original remade, plus an escape sequence without a suit.
Eight games in one cartridge, with a helper to hand to a second player.
Cat suits and four-player co-op; the 3D Mario built for a sofa.
Light and dark Aether, and a doppelganger that steals your beams.
Isle Delfino, a water jetpack and the hardest secret levels in the series.
Mode 7 tracks, a feather to hop the wall and a ghost of your own best lap; the kart racer that started it.
Jet skis on water that swells and settles; the N64 physics people still boot the console up for.
Turn-based battles with an audience to please; the best-written Mario.
Luigi with a vacuum cleaner in a haunted house; the GameCube launch oddity.
Inferno, Paradiso and a Wii U exclusive that critics begged people to buy.
Salmon Run, Splatfests and the Octo Expansion.
Mini-games of pure rhythm; Nintendo's weirdest series.
Golf with mushrooms and shortcuts; Camelot's GameCube gem.
A salesman-detective in a 1979 motel, the DS held like a book; Cing's noir.
Cheerleading agents rescue people through rhythm; the DS oddity.
Ninety-nine players on one screen, sending garbage lines at whoever is closest to topping out.
Retro Studios' hardest and best banana platformer.
Teach at a monastery, pick a house, fight your students five years later.
A haunted hotel floor by floor with a vacuum cleaner; Next Level Games.
Turf war, Salmon Run and the Splatfests; Nintendo's shooter at its best.
Talking flowers and Wonder effects that turn levels inside out; the 2D Mario reinvented.
Samus hunted by E.M.M.I. robots on ZDR; the 2D Metroid nineteen years late.
Multiverse witches and kaiju summons; Platinum's trilogy closer.
Kirby swallows a car in a post-apocalyptic mall; the 3D Kirby.
A deserted island, a loan from Tom Nook and the spring of 2020.
An open-world Mario Kart with 24 racers; the Switch 2 launch title.
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