Mario (Nintendo)
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Mario is a game character. He wears blue overalls and a red shirt. He has been Nintendo's mascot since the 1980s.
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[change] Features
- Blue eyes
- Short
- Wears blue overalls
- Luigi's brother
- Can jump high
- He is the hero of the Mushroom Kingdom
- He has saved many people from the Mario world
- He is a plumber in the Mushroom Kingdom.
- Rival of Wario's
[change] Games
Mario has appeared in many games. He has been in Mario Bros. and many others. Here is a short list of some of these games:
- Donkey Kong (Mario was called Jumpman at the time) (1981)
- Mario Bros. (1983)
- Super Mario Bros. (1985)
- Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988)
- Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990)
- Super Mario Land (1989)
- Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins (1990)
- Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land (1991)
- Super Mario World (1991)
- Super Mario All Stars (1993)
- Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's island (1995)
- Super Mario RPG: Legend of the 7 Stars (1996) (Not released in Europe)
- Super Mario 64 (1996)
- Paper Mario (2001)
- Super Mario Sunshine (2002)
- Super Smash Bros. Melee (2002
- Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
- Super Mario 64 DS (2004)
- New Super Mario Bros. (2006)
- Super Paper Mario (2007)
Sports games
- Super Mario Kart (1994)
- Mario Kart 64 (1996)
- Mario Golf (1999)
- Mario Tennis (2000))
- Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (2003)
- Mario Power Tennis (2004)
- Mario Tennis: Power Tennis (2004)
- Super Mario Strikers (2005)
- Mario Kart DS (2005)
- Mario Strikers Charged (2007)
Not the main character
[change] Super Mario Bros. popularity
The first Super Mario Bros. sold about 40 million games. It is the best selling game. It was the game that made Mario famous.
[change] Television series
The Super Mario Brothers Super Show was released in 1989. Each episode was 20 minutes, and were split into two parts: the first half starred Lou Albano and Danny Wells as Mario and Luigi in real-life segments, and the second half was one of 52 episodes of the animated Super Mario Bros. or one of 13 episodes of The Legend of Zelda.
In 1990, there was a 26-episode cartoon called The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 which ran on NBC. And in 1991 there was the 13-episode Super Mario World, so far being Mario's last TV show. In 1994, both Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario World were aired as Mario All-Stars on The Family Channel.
Mario was one of the first game characters to have his games turned into a TV show.
[change] Films
There was a movie in Japan called Super Mario Bros!: Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen! but never came out anywhere else. Mario's first appearance in American movie theaters was the 1990 film The Wizard, and his only role was the star of Super Mario Bros. 3, which wasn't out yet. It is found in the finals of a video game competition that the main character must win. Because the title was not out yet, the game received a lot of attention due to the film. Nintendo didn't pay Universal Studios, but still received royalties for the games seen in the film.
A Mario movie came out in 1993 called Super Mario Bros.: The Movie starring Bob Hoskins. It did not make much money for Nintendo and is considered a bad movie because of the bad job of making it feel like Mario.
The movies and some of the cartoons are now available on VHS and DVD.
[change] Other websites
- Mario's World (Nintendo of America official site, currently replaced by New Super Mario Bros. info)
- Mario's Megasite (Nintendo of Europe official site)
