When you've been around as long as Mario, things can get a little predictable. It's ok, though. There's a reason the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Super Mario games have endured for🔴 so long. Their typical tight platforming formula still works to this day, a satisfyingly well-a🐎ged product of the 80s.

But sometimes, the urge to keep things fresh will still rear its head, resulting in pleﷺnty of interesting spinoff titles. Some of these are more interesting than others, and m𒉰uch like a late Beatles album, they can really dip into the surreal. Helpfully, there are fewer substances involved in these cases, but some of these entries are no less trippy.

10 Super Princess Peach ꦉ 🐼

While it would be unfair to call Nintendo DS platformer Super Princess Peach a "strange" game, it was certainly an unexpected surprise when it made its debut. Appearing on the surface to simply be another 2D sidescrolling game with Peach front and center, this 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:underrated Mario spinoff game included its own unique gimmick.

Peach's abilities in this game revolved around her emotions, allowing her to tap into destructive and world-shaping powers based on her mood. Yes, there's a conversation to be had about how one of the few female-focused games in the series just so happens to center on her being emotional. But it's at least a fun time.

9 Mario Is Missi💞ng

Well over a decade before 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin's Creed made history fun and stabby, Mario Is Missing was many children's first unfortunate foray into the world of educational video games. Those impressionable youths who saw its distinct Super Mario World sprite style were in for a rude awakening.

Mario Is Missing sees you playing as Luigi, traveling throughout the real world in search of his lost brother. But if you're afraid that sounds too interesting, don't worry. The gameplay almost entirely consists of historical and geographical trivia as you trudge from landmark to landmark. But at least the PC version's Luigi sprite is entertainingly unnerving.

8 🎃 Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle

Somewhere, somebody made a solemn wish to one day see Mario cross over with Ubisoft's Rayman. Then, somewhere else, a monkey's paw curled. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle was born, prompting fans of both series around the worl💛d to respond with a resounding "huh?"

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is a turn-based strategy game that teams Mario and his friends up with the loud and very loud Rabbids from the Rayman series. What's perhaps more wild than that sequence of words is the fact that it's actually pretty good, even enough to spawn a sequel.

7 Yoshi's Topsy-Turvy/Universal Gravitation

Yoshi is no stranger to having his own game, so it makes sense that he'd get a chance to shake things up a bit, or at least a chance to tilt things around. Yoshi's Topsy-Turvy on the Game Boy Advance requires you to move the entire handheld system to control, a quality you'd think would be more common based on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:every video game commercial ever.

The game relies on a mix of D-pad movement and tilting the system itself. Unfortunately, many players didn't resonate with this unexpected control scheme. Maybe it would have been received better under its non-US title, Yoshi's Universal Gravitation. Or maybe it would have been confused with an 80s synth-pop album.

6 Alleyway

On the outside, Alleyway just looks like a typical Breakout clone, and frankly, that's exactly what this Game Boy launch title is. But the unusual nature of this particular game comes not from its gameplay, but from its lore.

On the box and in the game's intro, you'll see Mario himself taking charge of the pill-shaped spaceship you're supposed to be controlling as you bounce balls into breakable blocks. It doesn't affect the gameplay at all, and you might even miss it entirely. A real gold star on Mario's resume.

5 🅘 ♍ Mario Pinball Land

If you imagine a Mario pinball game, what do you see in your mind? Maybe Mario and friends 🌃chilling at an arcade playing some pinball? Or a more on-brand premise like traveling to the magical Pinball Kingdom where buildings are paddles, and the residents are shiny silver balls?

How about Mario and friends enjoying a fun theme park ride that transforms riders into spheres in order to be shot out of a cannon? Naturally, you probably already thought of that. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:This Game Boy Advance game wanted some spice in its pinball story, so that's where we are. Of course, Peach also gets kidnapped in ball form. Why not?

4 Wario: Master Of 💟Disguise ♔

Somehow, the WarioWare games aren't the weirdest shenanigans Wario himself has gotten into. Minigames are one thing, but a costume-changing platformer in the 🐎168澳洲幸运5开奖网:same vein as Princess Peach: Showtime! long before that game came out? Sure.

You control Wario like a typical platformer, except it also requires the Nintendo DS touch controls while you move him around with the D-pad or face buttons. The stylus changes your costume while also using each look's signature abilities. Naturally, it's all in the pursuit of treasure. Got to stay on-brand.

3 Yoshi's Safari

There are only so many ways a light gun game could work in the Mario series, and Yoshi's Safari didn't find any of them. Instead, it came up with its own idea. Sure, Mario is fun to control while riding Yoshi. But what if we also gave him a bazooka?

Ok, to be fair, it's just the SNES Super Scope, but really, that thing looks like a rocket launcher, doesn't it? Your goal is to rescue the definitely-not-just-a-one-off Jewelry Land from Bowser and his Koopalings, and apparently only a gun can do the job. Luckily, there's no sequel where Mario starts a podcast to yell about the 2nd Amendment.

2 🐓 ꩵ Mario & Wario

Why does Bowser always enact these intricate plans to take over the Mushroom Kingdom when Wario cracked the code years ago? Just drop a bucket on everyone's head. That's all it takes to incapacitate Mario, Peach, and the rest, just as long as a magical forest fairy doesn't just so happen to be nearby.

This Japan-exclusive (despite being fully in English) Super Famicom game sees you playing as Wanda, a now long-forgotten fairy character who must guide Mario and friends to their goal in each level. Just don't tell her how easy it would be to take the buckets off of their heads. She's trying so hard.

1 Hotel Ma🍸rio 🍒

Mario has gone to space, dominated at the Olympics, and even done the impossible by having a group of friends able to regularly hang out. But you want to know 🤪the real scoop. Has he ever closed a door?

Don't you worry. Hotel Mario 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:on the Philips CD-i predicted that burning question and answered it decades ago. Much like most games on the system, it continues the trend of controlling like cold molasses, and the story about Mario searching through Bowser's hotels to find Peach does little to make up for it.