25 Years Later, Nintendo’s Spookiest Game Is a Must-Play On Switch 2

Looking back at Nintendo hardware, dates often get separated from reality. We tend to develop a picture of a Mario platformer serving as an ever-present anchor, one hardware launch after another. That’s not always the case, though. Super Mario World arrived alongside the Super Nintendo in 1991, and Super Mario 64 was the star of the Nintendo 64 in 1996, but more recent hardware has frequently launched without that safeguard. The GameCube started the trend.