The Top 1 Nintendo DS Games according to the IGN team


1. New Super Mario Bros.
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Nintendo EAD
Release Date: May 19, 2006

Everything old is new again. For all the advancements made in technology, for all the possibilities for innovation on Nintendo's latest handheld, and for all the praise we've just spent 24 past pages offering to those games who've pursued those avenues the final salute has to go to one of the simplest designs of all. The best game on the Nintendo DS doesn't make use of the WiFi Connection. It doesn't do anything drastic with the two separate screens. It doesn't make much use of the touch capability at all, and all of that is because it just doesn't have to -- New Super Mario Bros. is compelling and fun on the strength of its gameplay and the power of nostalgia alone.

By the time it was released in the Spring of 2006, it had been almost 15 years since the last most recent Mario side-scroller had come to a Nintendo system. There had been plenty of spin-offs in that decade and a half, and lots of 3D adventures keeping the plumber in play -- but good old 2D action with Mario had been a dormant idea since Super Mario World.

With this rebirth, Shigeru Miyamoto and team returned the hero to his roots. Running to the right of the screen, stomping Goombas, saving the princess -- it was all there, exactly as you'd expect, and feeling just right. But the designers in charge made sure the "New" descriptor made sense too, by adding in such fresh elements as the Mega and Mini Mushroom power-ups, the Blue Shell our hero could don to gain a new spinning attack move, new-to-2D acrobatic maneuvers like wall-jumping and more.

Playing New Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo DS made us all feel young again, and the design was done so well that many fans have gone on record to declare it their favorite Mario platformer ever. That's high praise indeed, and it's the level of praise you'd expect from the game being awarded the #1 spot at the conclusion of our countdown.




Now that all 25 of our picks have been revealed, what's your final word? Did we get it right, or wrong? What games did we ignore that we shouldn't have? Are you even now making plans to let the air out of Fran's tires because Phoenix Wright wasn't mentioned once until this very sentence?

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