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It's a me Mario!

Video Games

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Main article: List of Mario games

To date, nearly 275 million copies of games featuring Me have been sold,[1] making it by far the best-selling video game franchise of all time.

My's first video game role was as the hero in 1981's Donkey Kong. In Japan, I was only known as "Jumpman"(ジャンプ人). The game was so successful that he carried over into an arcade spin-off, Mario Bros., which boasted a simultaneous two-player mode and introduced his taller yet younger brother Luigi. In Donkey Kong Junior, he was the villain, and in the ending cinematic, he is knocked out (although obviously he is not dead because he is in future games). His next appearance would be in Super Mario Bros. for the wildly successful Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), the console credited with reviving the home video game market. Super Mario Bros. sold over 40 million copies (pack-in copies included) making it the best-selling video game of all time and has been ported to numerous Nintendo consoles since.

Overall, Mario games have sold approximately 275 million copies worldwide, with Super Mario Bros. 3 holding the record for most copies of a non pack-in video game sold, with over 18 million copies sold. Mario and his friends also appeared in some of the later Game & Watch games.

Mario has explored just about every genre of video game. Aside from action platformers, the plucky plumber has also starred in puzzle games, racing games, sports games, fighting games, role-playing games, educational games etc.

Future announced Mario titles include the following:

Appearances on non-Nintendo platforms

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Nintendo holds the copyright to Mario in many nations and retained these rights for their own use with few exceptions. However, Mario appeared in quite a few educational PC titles in the United States such as Mario Teaches Typing and in some very early games for non-Nintendo systems such as the Atari 2600 and the Mattel Intellivision. Philips made several games, such as Hotel Mario, featuring Nintendo characters for their Philips CD-i which was the result of a compromise with Nintendo over failing to release a joint CD-ROM product. Mario Is Missing!, another PC game, was later ported to the NES and SNES much like its sequel Mario's Time Machine. Super Mario Bros. Special, the first sequel to Super Mario Bros., was also on a non-Nintendo platform.

There are many free fan-made games such as Mario Forever and Super Mario: Blue Twilight DX [1], and mini-movies using the Mario likeness available on the Internet such as the violent Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom cartoon series. Fan-made games vary from clones of the original games to more novel games that merely incorporate the Mario characters. Fans have produced and distributed simple games incorporating Mario on graphing calculators such as the TI-83. There have also been a number of fan-made games using the Super Mario World engine, and even some using the Super Mario Bros. 3 engine. [2]

Special cameo appearances

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In the earlier days of the NES and Game Boy, Mario made several cameos, usually in the early sports titles on both systems. Often he was depicted as the referee, such as in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! or Tennis, but was also the playable character in both versions of Nintendo's early Golf-title. However some of his other cameos were more bizarre, such as the one in the Breakout-clone Alleyway which featured Mario on the game's box-art and also at the beginning of each stage where Mario jumps "into" the paddle. He was also featured on the Game Over screen for the Game Boy version of Qix. The screen varies based on the score achieved in the game. One scene has him dressed in Mexican clothes, playing a guitar in the desert next to a cactus with a vulture perched on it.

In Pinball, Mario appears in a "bonus stage," holding up a platform on which Pauline is to be caught. The platform is also used in game play; the player's ball bounces off its surface, striking a series of numbered lamps that cause the floor underneath Pauline's lofty holding cage to break, which will (presumably) cause her to fall to safety. In the stage, the player controls Mario and can only move left or right.

Mario made brief appearances in three games from Nintendo's other popular franchise, the Legend of Zelda series. In A Link to the Past, his picture hangs on the walls of certain village houses. In Ocarina of Time, a picture of him (along with Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, and Bowser) is visible through a window in the castle courtyard where Link meets Zelda. In Majora's Mask, one of the masks on the Happy Mask Salesman's pack depicted Mario's face.

Mario also had a minor appearance in the game Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest when Diddy is ranked among the Nintendo icons based on the amount of Donkey Kong coins he possesses. Link from The Legend of Zelda and Yoshi also appear.

In 1999, Mario was included in the cast for Nintendo's popular fighting game, Super Smash Bros., for the Nintendo 64. He returned with the cast from the original in the 2001 GameCube sequel, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and will also appear in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, an upcoming game for the Wii. In the recent Super Smash Bros. Brawl trailer, Mario was seen picking up a Smash Bros. emblem (as an item), and then throwing a large wave of fire at his opponents. In this series, he is considered a well-balanced character and is easy for most players to use. However, he is somewhat slow. He was equipped with a meteor smash (Aerial Forward+A) in Melee because he was very unpopular in the original Smash Bros. and needed a better attack. Overall, he is an average fighter.

In Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, he appears on Otacon's desk next to a Yoshi figurine. When players shoot the Mario figure, they regain HP.

In the GameCube version of NBA Street V3, Mario makes a cameo alongside Luigi and Peach as their own playable basketball team, along with their own exclusive Nintendo themed court. SSX On Tour also features the three and an exclusive Nintendo themed track.

Mario has also made a cameo appearance in the Nintendo DS game Nintendogs. In this game, his hat can be unlocked, as well as a toy Mario in a radio-controlled kart. The latter is only unlockable on the Dachshund & Friends version.

In the game Animal Crossing: Wild World, both Mario's hat and shirt are items that your player character can wear. In the game, the hat is called "Big Bro's Hat", the shirt being named the "Big Bro's Shirt". An accessory can also be bought in the game that resembles a fake mustache and nose called the "Big Bro's Stache". In late July 2006, Toys 'R Us used their "DS Download Stations" to give players 6 exclusive Mario items: a fire bar, a Starman, a 1-up mushroom, a goal flag, a green pipe, and a '?' block.

In 1080° Avalanche, Mario appeared on the bottom of a snowboard and as an ice sculpture.

In the game Pilotwings 64, Mario's face can be seen with those of the Presidents on Mt. Rushmore. If his face is shot, it turns into Wario's face.

In Banjo-Tooie, if you talk to Loggo the toilet in Grunty Industries a second time before unclogging him, Kazooie will say, "Then call a plumber. I hear Mario's free at the moment." Loggo will respond "I don't think he actually does that kind of work anymore..."

In Pokémon Red and Blue, in the Mimic's house in Saffron City, if you look at the TV there is a "game with Mario wearing a bucket on his head" in progress. This is a reference to a game released only in Japan entitled Mario and Wario - where Mario would be moving in a level, with a bucket on his head.

Mario makes a secret appearance in Animal Crossing, in which he can be unlocked as a statue in your room. Along with this is a silver Luigi statue, a question mark block and a pipe. They are extremely rare - sometimes they can only be unlocked in a raffle at Nook's store, and sometimes by telling Nook a secret code that can be found at many cheat sites.

Mainstream Success

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Since his creation, Mario has established himself as a pop culture icon having starred in three television shows, comic books, and in a feature film where he was played by Bob Hoskins. Nintendo of Japan also produced a 60-minute anime feature starring Mario and his friends in 1986, although this film has never been released outside of Japan. He has also appeared on lunchboxes, t-shirts, in magazines, in commercials, in candy form, and as a plush toy. The animated series The Super Mario Bros. Super Show featured a live-action series of skits staring (former WWF manager) "Captain" Lou Albano as Mario and Danny Wells as Luigi. There was even a book series, the Nintendo Adventure Books. In 1990, a national survey found that Mario was more recognizable to children in the world than Mickey Mouse [citation needed]. In addition, Mario made history in 2003 by becoming the first video game character to be honored with a wax figure in the legendary Hollywood Wax Museum. In 2005, Jonathan Mann even wrote an opera based on the character, and performed The Mario Opera at the California Institute of the Arts.

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  • Mario's popularity has been parodied and/or referenced in many television shows other than his own. For example, he appears in two episodes of The Simpsons: in "Marge Be Not Proud", he, along with Luigi, Sonic, and Donkey Kong try to convince Bart to steal a video game; and in "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass", Mario is an Italian tourist who, when visiting Homer (famous after an embarrassing video on the Internet), gets trash cans thrown at him - just like Donkey Kong, but is defeated by Homer when he gets a hammer from the treehouse. He is also parodied in the Futurama episode "Anthology of Interest II", when Fry asks the What-If Machine what would life be like as a video game. In the sequence that follows, Mario is the Italian ambassador at the United Nations.
  • In the cartoon Megas XLR, episode 18 "Thanksgiving Throwdown", parodies of Mario and Luigi appear, known as "The Super Fabio Brothers". The Fabio brothers attack using wrenches and their famed jumping ability.
  • The 1989 Fred Savage film The Wizard featured characters playing the yet-to-be-released Super Mario Bros. 3 in a video game tournament. Many promotional ads for the movie featured footage from the climatic scene as cross-advertising for the title.
  • In Ghostbusters II, Louis Tully asks Janine if she wants to play Super Mario Bros.
  • The King of Town, a character from the popular Homestar Runner series, dresses up as Mario during a Halloween Special. There is even a fake game that can be played through an Easter Egg called "Super Kingio Bros." The game, however, is unwinnable because the King of Town is too fat to jump over the first enemy encountered. Fittingly, the Homestar Runner cartoon series was first animated with Mario Paint.
  • Parodies of the Super Mario Bros. called the Marxio Brothers. were minor villains in Sonic the Comic. The Marxios were electricians who came from another planet (Marxio World), they were extremely incompetent and had a failed (fictional) video-game series based off them.

My best friend will kick your butt!

Segata Sanshiro (せがた三四郎 Segata Sanshirō) was a fictional character and parody of Sugata Sanshirō, a legendary judo fighter. He appeared in two dozen commercials by SEGA to advertise the Sega Saturn in Japan between 1997 and 1998. The character is played by actor Fujioka Hiroshi, who is also a martial artist.

Sanshiro was a Judo master that tracked down and beat up people who were not playing the Sega Saturn. His name sounds similar to the phrase "Sega Saturn shiro!" meaning roughly "You must play Sega Saturn!"

Sanshiro lived as a hermit high on a mountain, devoting his life to intensive Sega Saturn training. He trained physically by carrying around a giant Sega Saturn and punching a giant controller, and mentally by breaking piles of bricks with his head. But he would also frequently visit the city to seek out people who were not playing the Sega Saturn, and harshly teach them a lesson. In one commercial he barges into a nightclub and beats up everyone inside; in another, he beats up three youths who irresponsibly go outside to play baseball instead of playing video games and in another he attempts to throw down several zombies in a parking lot to not much success (He is shown to be ok in the next advert though). Sanshiro was a serious man with a firm sense of duty, and he believed that playing video games was the most valuable activity in life.

The character became very well known in Japan, and helped make the Saturn successful in that country.

When the Saturn was phased out and the Sega Dreamcast released, Sanshiro's end came in the form of a commercial involving a missile directed at the Tokyo headquarters of SEGA. Although the commercial leaves the crazed launcher's identity ambiguous, many gamers assume it to be Sony because of its dominant share of the video game market at the time. Sanshiro heroically jumped onto the missile, deflected it into the atmosphere, and was killed in the subsequent explosion. The voiceover said that "Segata Sanshiro will live on in your hearts", followed by a display of the game Segata Sanshirō Shinkenyūgi, the only game with Segata playing a major role. It is said this game is the last one produced for the aged Saturn console, to be followed by the Sega Dreamcast.

He is also referenced in the Japanese version of Virtua Fighter 4, where one of the AI profiles for Akira Yuki is named Segata.

Segata Sanshiro also has a cameo appearance in Rent-a-Hero No.1, a Japanese release for the Dreamcast and Xbox.

Translated theme song lyrics The character was so popular that a theme song and music video were released. This is an approximate English translation of the lyrics meant to communicate the spirit of the song.

Segasaturn Shiro! by Segata Sanshiro

The solitary man who devoted his soul to the way of games Today, he comes again He will punish those who do not play seriously Their battered bodies will never forget!

[chorus] Segata Sanshiro, Segata Sanshiro! Sega Saturn... shiro!

They play tennis, sing karaoke, flirt around in clubs... Are there not more serious tasks to be done? Those who do not play maturely He questions them deep inside their hearts

Segata Sanshiro, Segata Sanshiro! Sega Saturn... shiro!

(voice of Segata) Youngsters... is there something in your life you are completely devoted to? Something you sink into so deep you put your life on the line? You must play Sega Saturn! Play... until your fingers break! Until your fingers break!

Even if they chase after sex, that petty pleasure Their soul will remain hollow Those who do not immerse themselves to the extreme in gaming Will find their bodies beaten harshly!

Segata Sanshiro, Segata Sanshiro! Sega Saturn... shiro!

The white clouds floating on the great blue sky And the boiling red bloodshed in fierce gaming Those who give up halfway through Their battered bodies will never forget!

Segata Sanshiro, Segata Sanshiro! Sega Saturn... shiro! Segata Sanshiro, Segata Sanshiro! Sega Saturn... shiro!

And this dude! Crash Bandicoot (クラッシュ バンディュー, Kurasshu Bandikū?), or simply Crash, is a popular video game character created by Naughty Dog, an anthropomorphic bandicoot who stars in a video game franchise of the same name. Originally a straightforward platformer for the PlayStation, it has since expanded to the Game Boy Advance, GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox with various spin-off games in different genres.

So I am the best!

  1. ^ David Low (2005). "Nintendo reveal sales figures". Australia's PAL Gaming Network. Retrieved February 12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
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