Buy and play these Super Mario games before they leave

Over the past year, Nintendo has released several Mario games to celebrate the mustachioed mascot’s 35th birthday, but two of them:Super Mario 3D All-Stars and Super Mario Bros. 35—Available only through March 31st. After that, both will be removed from the Nintendo Switch eShop and physical copies of Super Mario 3D All-Stars will sell out. No one knows if Nintendo will ever re-release these titles.

In front of Super Mario 3D All-Stars (which collects Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy in one game), you can still play the game if you own it physically or digitally. The cartridge will always work and the digital version can still be re-downloaded to your Switch, even after it has been removed from the eShop. Although you can no longer purchase the eShop version, you may be able to purchase packaged copies of Super Mario 3D All-Stars online and in stores, although you could end up paying more for it. Expect new and used copies to increase in price as soon as Nintendo ceases production.

Fortunately, box-wrapped copies of Super Mario 3D All-Stars are slightly discounted at the time of writing. Instead of the normal $ 60, Super Mario 3D All-Stars retails for $ 50 from Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. We don’t know how long that sale price will last (Nintendo games rarely go on sale), so grab a copy now before supplies dry up. As for the digital version, it’s still the full $ 60 on the eShop, but if you buy it now, you won’t have to hunt for an overpriced copy in a box later.

Unfortunately that is not the case for the free to play competitive multiplayer game, Super Mario Bros. 35It will be removed from the eShop on March 31 and Nintendo will shut down the servers immediately. Since the game is online only, you cannot play it anymore.

For those who haven’t tried it yet, Super Mario Bros. 35 puts a competitive spin on the classic NES Super Mario Bros., where players play the original levels, but any enemy you stomp on will be sent to another player’s game. The last player remaining wins the match. It launched on October 1, 2020, so it was only playable for six months. If you want to try the game, download and play it before March 31st.

Nintendo has also released Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury on Switch and added the original Super Mario All-Stars to the collection of free SNES games for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers for Mario’s 35th, but they will remain available after March 31.