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It’s the weekend, you don’t have much planned, the Switch is on charge and you need a new game No way are you going to pay full price for a Mario game though. And Nintendo? They never lower the prices of its main character’s games, do they?
WRONG! It’s Mar10 Day/weekend and there is a decent online sale packed full of plumbing madness. It’s a shame games such as Super Mario Bros. Wonder don’t even get a teensy discount and the sale is reliant on older members of the franchise, but there are still great times to be had here.
Our Top Five MarIO Day Picks
1 – Mario Kart 8
If you don’t have this already it should be your essential Mar10 Day purchase with 33% off the regular asking price. There’s a bundle too with the Booster Courses but that only comes in at 23% off.
2 – Mario Party Superstars
If you love party games, and let’s face it, Nintendo consoles are famous for them then this comes with a 33% discount until the end of the sale.
3 – Luigi’s Mansion 3
Also packing a 33% tidy discount, LM3’s spooky puzzle platformer is a fun twist on the normal Mario formula.
4 –  Mario Tennis Aces
New-a-balls-a-please. Okay, we have to stop doing that but take Mario out onto the court in this fun Tennis game in time for summer.
5 – Yoshi’s Crafted World
The latest Yoshi adventure just looks gorgeous with tons of collectables to find and a quirky gameplay mechanic.
Mario Day Sale
Here’s a handy list of some of the best Mario deals this weekend. The sale actually runs until the stroke of March 18th so you have time to make your mind up properly before getting the wallet out and handing your cash to Nintendo.

Mario Kart 8 — $39.99 (RRP $59.99).
Luigi’s Mansion 3 — $39.99 (RRP $59.99).
Mario Party Superstars — $39.99 (RRP $59.99).
Mario Golf: Super Rush — $39.99 (RRP $59.99).
Mario Tennis Aces — $39.99 (RRP $59.99).
Yoshi Crafted World — $39.99 (RRP $59.99).
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 — $23.99 (RRP $59.99).
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope — $19.79 (RRP $59.99).

Nintendo is also giving a free 14-day trial to Nintendo Switch Online if you sign up before the 18th, and in better news, you can still access it even if you have previously had a freebie before.
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For such a long time some of the most famous games from the 90s and early 2000s have been unavailable on the world’s largest game store, Steam. Electronic Arts was the publisher behind all of them and to get them, you needed to have EA App/Origin installed, a separate storefront with more data shared, more card details stored, and more hassle to just pick up and play – not helped either by the fact the EA storefront is not the most user-friendly storefront in town.
Now, for reasons known only to men in big wigs who sit around board tables, over 20 classic EA titles have appeared on Steam so you can add them to your library with the other games you love.
Absolute classics like the Command & Conquer franchise and Dungeon Keeper – we love Dungeon Keeper are there – even the daddy of the God sim, Populous and Populous 2 are there (side note, I reviewed Populous 2 originally back in the day for the Atari ST. Never say I don’t know my stuff!)
Whatever the reason these games have suddenly appeared, we should rejoice and encourage EA that choice is the way forward by picking one or two of them up and adding them to our Steam libraries as things like Dungeon Keeper 2 are only $2 at the moment
List of classic EA games you can now find on Steam
This is like a rockstar Hall of Fame for some of the great games of yesteryear. Here are all 24 titles.

Alpha Centauri Planetary Pack by Sid Meier
Command & Conquer Series
Tiberium Wars
C&C 3 Tiberium Wars – Kane’s Wrath
C&C 4 Tiberian Twilight
Generals
Generals – Zero Hour
Command & Conquer: Red Alert Series
Red Alert – Counterstrike
Red Alert – The Aftermath
Red Alert 2
Red Alert 2 – Yuri’s Revenge
Red Alert 3
Red Alert 3 – Uprising
Renegade
Tiberian Sun
Tiberian Sun – Firestorm
Dungeon Keeper 2
Dungeon Keeper Gold
Populous Series
Populous 2: Trials of the Olympic Gods
Populous: The Beginning
SimCity 3000 Unlimited
The Saboteur

If there’s not at least one game on this list you have played you have no gaming soul! Correct that immediately.
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