Super Mario Series

Donkey Kong
- Mario's heroic run begins here, in the classic arcade game as the circus worker goes off in pursuit of the giant ape all to rescue the hero's girlfriend, Paulie.
Donkey Kong Jr.
- The tables are turned in this decent, if not exceptional, sequel featuring Donkey Kong's son on his own adventure to save his papa.
Mario Bros.
- While Kong ventures off down his own path, Mario is joined by his brother Luigi for a sewer adventure of strange and weird proportions.
Wrecking Crew
- Odd-job loving Mario becomes a construction worker for this decent little puzzle-platformer that showed where the company's ambitions were headed from the plumber.

Super Mario Bros.
- Mario's world breaks wide open as he shifts from one-screen adventures to his full platforming potential in this formative first game in this "super" series.
The Lost Levels
- Originally released only in Japan, this first pass at a sequel was more of a hard-mode kaizo hack of the original game without a lot of big improvements over the original title.
Super Mario Bros. 2
- While the Japanese sequel stuck to the core of the original game, the U.S. got a very different game, a refresh of a Japan-only title, Doki Doki Panic, that played very differently from a "traditional" Mario game.
Super Mario Bros. 3
- Mario takes one more pass at the NES platforming series with a gamed that blends the best elements of the games that came before for a title thaat feels like a true masterwork for the console.