The 10 Best Mario Sports Games

From Pong to NES Baseball, the infancy of the medium was littered with just-about-recognisable renditions of real-life sports in an attempt to conjure a degree of familiarity to this fledgling form of entertainment. But in the mid ‘90s, the developers at Nintendo collectively had a light bulb appear above their head housing an idea that would change gaming forever – what if Mario and his friends played tennis? With Mario Tennis Fever releasing this month on Nintendo Switch 2, we could be about to enter a new era. From Mario soccer to basketball, baseball to golf, here’s the top 10 Mario sports games, ranked.