The History of Mario & Co. SMBHQ's attempt to create a single story covering all Mario games, archived in the Wayback Machine.
To Our Readers While looking for an old invetview with Satoshi Tajiri, creator of Pokemon, I found this. It's just a short introduction, describing how Time got the inteview, but it's interesting none the less. Oh, here's the interview itself. Here's an archived copy of that issue's index, which has a few other articles I should link to directly.