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I had no idea Donkey Kong 3 was a shooter.

I remember watching Kit own that Double Dragon II on Nintendo Minute.

Yep, there was a time when Mario was actually the bad guy.

Punch-Out was originally changed to feature "Mr. Dream" because the game's partnership with Mike Tyson had expired.

Pit's humble beginnings.

So that's where Mouser came from.

I don't think there's been a Mario-like side-scrolling Zelda game ever since, though Link's Awakening does have similar elements as well.

If I'm not mistaken, Wario's Woods here included was the final game published by Nintendo on the NES in the early 1990s.