The big draw, though, is the visuals. Super Mario Flashback has some truly gorgeous pixel art that is both distinctive and faithful to the portly plumber's original adventures. The latest demo ...

but now localised versions for the West have been brought up to speed - there's lots of lovely pixel art and an interactive history of every Super Mario game to date, with music and a video for each.

so I started using it as a pixel-art canvas." And what better place to start than one of the most iconic characters in all of video games? For the record, if you'd like to create your own Mario ...

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team spent three years in development because studio AlphaDream chose to render the characters in 2D pixel art and shade them to look 3D, while all backgrounds were initially ...