It's now 40 years — forty! — since Super Mario Bros. debuted on the Famicom in Japan on 13th September 1985. To celebrate, we're republishing this ranking of every Super Mario platformer. Enjoy!

What's the best Mario game ever? Over more than four decades, the Nintendo mascot has starred in many of the best video games of all time, and, let's face it, any of the top 10 could justifiably take the title.

We've compiled the following definitive ranking to help you sort the Super from the not-so-super Marios. It was a Tall Tall task, but this list of the best Mario games includes all the mainline platforming games in the series.

So, let's take a running jump and see if the princess is in the castle at the end. Here is the Super Mario series ranked from worst to best.

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