: The classic games have been ported over to the Nintendo Switch with upscaled graphics. The old controls feel clunky compared to modern gaming standards, but if you already love these games, this makes for a great purchase.

Upscaled graphics, Three games in one purchase, The nostalgia is real

A lazy port, Dated controls, Overpriced

Super Mario 3D All-Stars offers three excellent games in close to their original forms, but it misses a lot of opportunities to polish and improve them.

All three games are absolute classics, Renders at high definition, Bonus music player

No visual or mechanical improvements to fix rough edges, Doesn't run at 60 frames per second, Lacks Super Mario Galaxy 2

Long ago, in the days of the Super NES, Nintendo released Super Mario All-Stars. It was a brilliant idea, a collection of three classic 2D Mario games (and the original Super Mario Bros. 2, which was never released in North America) on a single SNES cartridge, all overhauled with new, more detailed, more colorful 16-bit graphics. Now, nearly 30 years later, Nintendo is bringing out its second Mario All-Stars collection: Super Mario 3D All-Stars. This $59.99 Nintendo Switch release includes Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy, all on a single card or download. These games don’t get major graphical upgrades like the games in the original All-Stars, or the more recent Crash Bandicoot N-Sane Trilogy and Spyro Reignited Trilogy collections on the PlayStation 4, but they’re still classics that play just as well as they did on their original consoles. Inexplicably, Nintendo is only offering Super Mario 3D All-Stars as a “limited release.” This doesn’t just mean ...

Super Mario 3D All-Stars offers three excellent games in close to their original forms, but it misses a lot of opportunities to polish and improve them.

All three games are absolute classics; Renders at high definition; Bonus music player

No visual or mechanical improvements to fix rough edges; Doesn't run at 60 frames per second; Lacks Super Mario Galaxy 2

A tricky one. Allow us to be very clear: Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy are two of the very best video games ever committed to code, while Sunshine has some enjoyable moments and is more than worth sampling, even if it’s just to see how much better its follow-up was. If you’ve never played these games and have a Nintendo Switch, you really should buy 3D All-Stars, especially as Nintendo will stop selling it altogether in the first half of next year. But the rest of us? Again, tricky. If you love Mario, can you really resist having three of his most prominent games on your Switch? Replaying Galaxy in particular, wonky controls aside, has been a delight. Just know that Nintendo really hasn’t put much effort into this compilation, and given that it’s supposed to be a celebration of 35 years of its Wahoo-ing mascot, that’s a little bit disappointing.

Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy are exceptional, timeless games; Galaxy still looks great; Fascinating to experience the evolution of 3D Mario games in one package;

Almost nothing new and few bonus features for series veterans; The games are barely remastered; Camera issues in the first two games remain ; Galaxy is awkward to play in handheld;

It’s a real treat visiting all three games, each with their own mechanics and controls unique to the platform they launched on at the time – though that does mean not all of them feel quite at home on the Nintendo Switch. These aren’t anything like remasters, and it can feel at times that Nintendo cut some corners to bring the games to Nintendo Switch without too much hassle.

Three classic 3D games; Varied gameplay; Decent value; Excellent soundtracks;

Awkward touch controls; Inconsistent localization; Can't skip cutscenes; Galaxy 2 isn't here

Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy are exceptional, timeless games; Galaxy still looks great; Fascinating to experience the evolution of 3D Mario games in one package;

Almost nothing new and few bonus features for series veterans; The games are barely remastered; Camera issues in the first two games remain ; Galaxy is awkward to play in handheld;

The other thing they released was a Game & Watch handheld that lets you play the original Super Mario Bros., the Japan only sequel, plus a Mario version of Ball and a special clock. As of this writing, I haven’t been able to find this one yet.