Mario’s never been a stranger to sports. But during the Nintendo GameCube era, the popular Italian plumber seemed more familiar scoring points on a field or court than he was jumping from platform to platform.
While there’s no shortage of fantastic sports spin-offs starring Mario and his Mushroom Kingdom friends, one of them reigned supreme for the pure fun factor. In 2005, Super Mario Strikers saw Mario finally taking to soccer, one of the few sports he hadn’t yet conquered, creating one of the most timeless pick-up-and-play experiences in all of gaming.
