The Super Mario series of games is one of the most popular video game series of all time. Over the years, dozens of remakes, clones, and homebrew versions have been developed as freeware for the PC. Below are our favorites.

Genre: PlatformerTheme: Super Mario BrosDeveloper: Buziol GamesLicense: FreewareSuper Mario 3: Mario Forever is a remake of the original Nintendo classic. There are dozens of Super Mario remakes, but this one is easily one of the best we've seen. Acid-Play also rates this as one of the best Super Mario clones available for PC.

Genre: PlatformerTheme: Super Mario BrosDeveloper: VeratulLicense: FreewareMario Worlds has a Super Mario World aesthetic and Super Mario Bros style gameplay, and features everything you would expect from a Mario game; collecting coins, power-ups, enemies and of course Princess Peach. There are some drawbacks though, such as no save option, but all in all the game plays very close to the original series.

Genre: ArcadeTheme: Super Mario BrosDeveloper: Buziol GamesLicense: FreewareMario Forever Galaxy is a sequel to Buziol Games' hugely popular platformer remake of Super Mario 3: Mario Forever. In this game, Evil Bowser kidnaps Princess Peach and takes her to a distant planet. It's up to Mario and his friends to travel through the galaxies and defeat Bowser's minions to save her. The gameplay is more like a shoot-em-up game than a Mario game.