F-Zero and Super Mario World still hold console-launch lessons for Nintendo 25 years later

Twenty-five years ago, the Super Famicom launched with some of the best games Nintendo has ever made: F-Zero and Super Mario World.

Both left a massive impact on their genres and video games as a whole. To this day, people still compare new 2D platformers to Super Mario World and attribute the discovery and success of futurist arcade-racing games to F-Zero. It’s safe to say that the game industry would be in a slightly lesser place creatively if F-Zero and Super Mario World never launched. But they did, and video games are better off for it.