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Super Mario

August 21, 2023

For other uses, see Super Mario (disambiguation).

Super Mario[a] (also known as Super Mario Bros.[b] and Mario[c]) is a platform game series created by Nintendo starring their mascot, Mario. It is the central series of the greater Mario franchise. At least one Super Mario game has been released for every major Nintendo video game console. There are more than 20 games in the series.

Super Mario
Logo since 2011
Genre(s)Platform
Developer(s)
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Creator(s)Shigeru Miyamoto
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
Platform(s)
First releaseSuper Mario Bros.
September 13, 1985
Latest releaseSuper Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
February 12, 2021
Spin-offsLuigi
Yoshi
Wario
Mario Kart
Mario Party
Paper Mario
Mario & Luigi

The Super Mario games are set primarily in the fictional Mushroom Kingdom, typically with Mario as the player character. He is usually joined by his brother, Luigi, and often by other members of the Mario cast. As platform games, they involve the player character running and jumping across platforms and atop enemies in themed levels. The games have simple plots, typically with Mario and Luigi rescuing the kidnapped Princess Peach from the primary antagonist, Bowser. The first game in the series, Super Mario Bros., released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985, established the series' core gameplay concepts and elements. These include a multitude of power-ups and items that give the character special powers such as fireball-throwing and size-changing.[1]

The Super Mario series is part of the greater Mario franchise, which includes other video game genres and media such as film, television, printed media, and merchandise. More than 380 million copies of Super Mario games have been sold worldwide, making it the fifth-bestselling video game series, behind the larger Mario franchise, the puzzle series Tetris, the series Pokémon video games, and first-person shooter series Call of Duty.[2]

Gameplay

The objective of the game is to progress through levels by defeating enemies, collecting items and solving puzzles without dying. Power-up use is integral to the series. The series has installments featuring both two and three-dimensional gameplay. In the 2D games, the player character (usually Mario) jumps on platforms and enemies while avoiding their attacks and moving to the right of the scrolling screen. 2D Super Mario game levels have single-exit objectives, which must be reached within a time limit and lead to the next sequential level. Super Mario Bros. 3 introduced the overworld, a map of nonlinear levels that branches according to the player's choice.[3] Super Mario World introduced levels with multiple exits.

3D installments in the series have had two subgenres: open world exploration based games and more linear 3D games with a predetermined path.[4] Levels in the open world games, 64, Sunshine and Odyssey, allow the player to freely explore multiple enclosed environments in 360-degree movement. As the game progresses, more environments become accessible.[5] The linear 3D games, Galaxy, Galaxy 2, 3D Land and 3D World, feature more fixed camera angles and a predetermined path to a single goal.

Playable characters

The series often features the option to play as characters other than Mario, usually Luigi. Earlier games have offered an alternating multiplayer mode in which the second player controls Luigi on their turn. Luigi is often only playable by player one in a second, more challenging iteration of the base game, such as in The Lost Levels, Galaxy 2, New Super Luigi U and the special worlds in 3D Land; these feature lower gravity and reduced friction for Luigi. Later games allow four player simultaneous play. Playable characters other than Mario and Luigi have included Toads, Peach, Yoshi, Wario, Rosalina, Miis, Toadette, Nabbit, Daisy, and Bowser Jr. Characters are sometimes differentiated by special abilities. Super Mario Maker (though not Super Mario Maker 2) includes costumes that depict many more characters.

Power-ups and transformations

 
Super Mushroom, as depicted in New Super Mario Bros. U – UGO described it as "the quintessential power-up".[6]

Mushroom power-ups appear in almost every Super Mario game. The most iconic of these is the Super Mushroom.[6][7] The Super Mushroom increases the character's size, turning them into a "Super" variant, and allows them to break certain blocks. When hit by an enemy, the character reverts to their smaller size instead of losing a life.[6] When the character is in their "Super" form, most blocks that would contain a Super Mushroom instead offer a more powerful power-up such as the Fire Flower. The Super Mushroom is similar in appearance to the Amanita muscaria, with an ivory stalk below a most commonly red and white (originally red and orange) spotted cap. Created by chance, Shigeru Miyamoto stated in an interview that beta tests of Super Mario Bros. proved Mario too tall, so the development team implemented mushrooms to grow and shrink Mario.[8] Different variants of mushroom power-ups appear in the series. For example, Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels introduces the Poison Mushroom, which causes damage when collected; and New Super Mario Bros. introduces the Mini Mushroom, which shrinks the character to miniature size; and the Mega Mushroom, grows the character into a towering, invulnerable giant who destroys enemies and the environment by running through them.[9]

Super Mario Bros. 3 introduces suits to the Super Mario series, many of which are based on animals or Mario enemies. The Raccoon Suit (provisioned by a Super Leaf) and the Tanooki Suit each provide the character with a tail that enables flight. In addition, the Tanooki Suit lets the character spontaneously change into an invincible statue for about five seconds. Super Mario Bros. 3 includes a Hammer Bros. suit, which allows Mario and Luigi to throw hammers as projectiles to defeat enemies at a distance. Other suits in later games in the series include the Frog Suit, Penguin Suit, Cat Suit, Boomerang Suit, and Bee Suit.

Projectiles

The flower power-ups let the player character shoot projectiles. The Fire Flower, introduced in Super Mario Bros., transforms the character into a Fire variant who can throw bouncing fireballs at enemies. Galaxy is the first 3D Super Mario game to have the Fire Flower. In Land and Maker 2, the Superball is a bouncing ball obtained from a Super Flower, which the character can use to defeat enemies and collect coins. The Ice Flower transforms the character into an Ice variant who can shoot balls of ice as projectiles similar to those of the Fire Flower; they freeze enemies in blocks of ice that can used as platforms or thrown as projectiles, as seen in New Super Mario Bros. Wii and New Super Mario Bros. U.[10] In Galaxy, the Ice Flower turns Mario or Luigi into ice and lets him walk on lava or water for a limited time by freezing the surface. Lastly, New Super Mario Bros. 2's Gold Flower lets Mario or Luigi turn bricks into coins and earn bonus coins for defeating enemies.

Koopa Shells serve as a major projectile in the series, featuring since the original game. The character can throw them to defeat enemies, collect coins, and activate the functions of blocks. Power-ups are available for Yoshi to breathe fire in World, Yoshi's Island, and 64 DS, breathe freezing air and spit seeds in Yoshi's Island, spit out enemies in the World games, and spit juice in Sunshine. Other power-ups let the character throw bombs, boomerangs, and baseballs and shoot cannonballs. In Odyssey, Mario can possess characters, some of which can launch various projectiles. Flying shoot 'em up gameplay also appears in the series. Mario pilots the armed Sky Pop biplane and Marine Pop submarine in Land. The Koopa Clown Car, aircraft of Bowser and the Koopalings, can sometimes shoot fireballs in Maker.

Ridable animals and vehicles

Apart from automated objects in levels that may transport the player character, certain ridable animals and vehicles have appeared that the player controls. Mario's dinosaur friend Yoshi has appeared as a mount to the player character in several Super Mario games since Super Mario World. In Yoshi's Island and 64 DS, instead of the player character merely riding on Yoshi's back, Yoshi is the player character. Yoshis generally have abilities including eating enemies, flying, and breathing fire. Miyamoto had originally wished for Mario to be able to ride a dinosaur in Super Mario Bros., but this wasn't possible due to the technical restraints of the system.[citation needed] Poochi is a dog featuring in Yoshi's Island who Yoshi can ride. Plesiosaurs Dorrie and Plessie can be ridden by the player characters in 64 and 3D World respectively,[11][12] with Plessie serving a larger role in Bowser's Fury.[13]

Various vehicles that the player character can control have also appeared. These include a magic carpet in 2, flying clouds in several 2D games, submarines in Land and Yoshi's Island, an airplane in Land, a helicopter, train, and mole tank in Yoshi's Island, cars in Yoshi's Island and Maker 2, and the Koopa Clown Car aircraft in the Maker games.

Blocks

Most items in the Super Mario series appear from item blocks when hit, which originated in Super Mario Bros. and have persisted throughout the series, where the character hits a block to receive either coins or power-ups. Variations include those that are invisible until hit, advice dispensers, produce another block, move, frozen, contingent on a switch, bouncy, etc. The propeller block lets the character spin up into the air and slowly descend, and the Gold Block generates coins through running. A single block is the unit of measurement in the design of Super Mario levels.

Extra lives

Player characters can gain extra lives in most of the games. The 1-Up mushroom was introduced in Super Mario Bros., with the term 1-up subsequently being used generically in other video game series to refer to extra lives. In the monochromatic Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2, instead of a differently colored mushroom, the 1-Up is shown as a heart. Super Mario World introduced the 3-Up Moon. 1-Ups can also be earned through collecting a certain number of coins or playing minigames.

Invincibility

Invincibility is an effect first appearing in the three Super Mario Bros. games, where it is granted by a "Starman",[14][15][16] an anthropomorphized, flashing star. The star has also been named the "Super Star" in the two Super Mario World games as well as the New Super Mario Bros. games[17][18] and the "Rainbow Star" in the two Super Mario Galaxy games. Picking up the star makes the character temporarily invincible, able to resist any harm. Use of the item is accompanied by a distinctive music track that appears consistently across most of the games. The player character flickers a variety of colors – and in some games, moves with increased speed and enhanced jumping ability – while under the Star's influence. While invincible, the character defeats any enemy upon contact with it. In Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, the star gives the normally immobile baby Mario the ability to run as well as become invincible. In Super Mario 64 and 64 DS, invincibility is provided when the character becomes metal or intangible. The Mega Mushroom provides temporary invincibility with the addition of giant size and environment destruction (see Power-ups and transformations).

Collectibles

Super Mario level design traditionally incorporates many distributed coins as puzzles and rewards. Most Super Mario games award the player an extra life once a certain amount of gold coins are collected, commonly 50 or 100. Several coin variants exist, such as silver coins, dragon coins, star coins, and more. In 64, Sunshine, Galaxy, and Galaxy 2, coins replenish health (and air, when the character is underwater). In 64 and Sunshine, collecting 100 coins in a level results in a Power Star or Shine Sprite respectively. There are also stages in that game reward a Power Star for collecting eight red coins in a level, worth two normal coins each. In 64, a blue coin is worth five normal coins. In Sunshine, blue coins act as a side quest when brought to the Delfino Bank and for every ten blue coins deposited, Mario will earn a Shine Sprite. In the Galaxy series, after finishing each game once, stages unlock where Mario or Luigi can collect 100 purple coins to earn a Power Star. In Galaxy 2, they can also be used to feed some hungry "Luma" characters that can turn into either an item or another planet.

The games often feature other tokens found in levels to progress in the overworld, most frequently with the visual motif of a star. They are typically situated in locations that are not readily found or reached, or awarded for completing stunts, or objectives given by NPCs. They include the Power Stars in Super Mario 64 and the Super Mario Galaxy games, Shine Sprites in Super Mario Sunshine and Bowser's Fury, Star Coins in the New Super Mario Bros. series and Super Mario 3D Land, Green Stars in the Galaxy games and Super Mario 3D World, and Power Moons in Super Mario Odyssey. In Super Mario Land 2, there are six Golden Coin tokens that must be collected to finish the game.

Warp Pipes and Warp Cannons

See also: Warp (video games)

The Warp Pipe is a common method of transportation used in many of the Mario series games. Warp Pipes are most often green but also appear in other colors (early games included silver pipes, newer games have introduced red, green, blue and yellow pipes), and have many uses in the series. Warp Pipes can also contain enemies, usually Piranha Plants, and sometimes launch the player into the air (most commonly seen in the New Super Mario Bros. series). In early Mario games such as Super Mario Bros., special, well-hidden areas known as Warp Zones contain pipes that allow players to skip several worlds (handfuls of levels) at once.[19] In the New Super Mario Bros. series, pipe-shaped Warp Cannons work similarly to the Warp Zones of the earlier games and are unlocked by finding secret exits in levels. Cannons appear in most of the 3D games in the series starting with Super Mario 64. The character uses the cannon by jumping into the barrel, aiming themself and being fired at a distant target. This allows the character to progress through a level or reach otherwise inaccessible areas.

Minigames

Many games in the series feature minigames supplemental to the platforming gameplay, usually offering the chance to win extra lives or power-ups. Super Mario Bros. 2 and 3D World feature slot machines. Super Mario Bros. 3 and the New Super Mario Bros. games contain Toad Houses that host skill- and luck-based activities such as shell games. The Land games feature end-of-level minigames for acquiring extra lives. The Battle Mode in the All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 3 and the Advance series of remakes all feature versions of Mario Bros. as a minigame. Yoshi's Island enables a minigame when certain conditions are met when completing a level. 64 DS contains over 30 minigames that can be accessed independently of the original mode of play. 3D World contains Luigi Bros., a version of Mario Bros. with two Luigis, and the Switch version of 3D World includes Bowser's Fury, a 3D platformer of smaller size in one enclosed environment.[citation needed]

Music

Much of the original Super Mario Bros. music and sound effects have become iconic to the series and incorporated into modern games. The original Super Mario Bros. theme, composed by Koji Kondo, has become one of the most well known video game themes around the world.[20]

Super Mario Galaxy, released in 2007, became the first game in the Super Mario series to feature orchestrated music,[21] which would return in its sequel and other subsequent games such as Super Mario 3D World.[22]

Development

1985–1995: 2D origins

 
Super Mario Bros., released in 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, was the first game in the series and the first 2D side-scrolling platform game to feature Mario.
 
Super Mario Bros. director Takashi Tezuka, producer Shigeru Miyamoto, and composer Koji Kondo, pictured in 2015

Super Mario Bros., the first side-scrolling 2D platform game to feature Mario, was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985. It was derived through collaboration by Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka as a successor to the 1983 arcade game Mario Bros., which starred two characters: Mario, the titular character that first appeared in Donkey Kong as the original player character and its sequel where he was a final boss, and Luigi, who first appeared in Mario Bros.[23] Super Mario Bros. established many core Mario elements, such as Goombas, Koopa Troopas, Bowser, Peach, and its three power-ups: the Super Mushroom, increasing the character's size and providing an extra hit point, Fire Flower, allowing the character to throw fireballs as weapons, and Super Star, granting temporary invincibility. The "Super" in the title came from the integration of the Super Mushroom into the game.[24] The brothers Mario and Luigi must rescue Princess Toadstool/Peach from Bowser/King Koopa in the Mushroom Kingdom. The game consists of eight worlds of four levels each, totaling 32 levels altogether. Though the worlds differ in themes, the fourth level is always a fortress or castle that ends with a fight against Bowser (or one of his minions disguised as him).[25] Super Mario Bros. is one of the best-selling video games of all time.[26]

Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels (known as Super Mario Bros. 2 in Japan) is the first sequel to the original Super Mario Bros. It uses the Super Mario Bros. engine, with additions such as weather, character movements, and more complex levels, altogether yielding a much higher difficulty. The game follows the same style of level progression as Super Mario Bros., with eight initial worlds of four levels each. At that time, this sequel was not released outside Japan since Nintendo of America did not want the Super Mario series to be known to players outside of Japan for frustrating difficulty. It remained inaccessible to a steadily broadening market of American video game players, becoming stylistically outdated by the time the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 could be eventually delivered to America.[27] The game later debuted outside Japan in 1993 as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels in the compilation game Super Mario All-Stars for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).

In Super Mario Bros. 2 (known as Super Mario USA in Japan), Mario and his companions seek to defeat the evil frog Wart in the Subcon dreamland. Based on a discarded prototype,[28] the game was instead originally released as Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic in Japan, and was ultimately converted into a Mario game for the rest of the world as Super Mario Bros. 2, before being released in Japan as Super Mario USA as part of Super Mario All-Stars. One of the game's most defining aspects is the four player characters: not only Mario, but Luigi, Princess Peach and Toad are available for single-player gameplay, each with defined character movements: Luigi jumps higher, the Princess can hover in the air for a short amount of time, and Toad is the fastest. Characters here also can pluck items from the ground to throw at enemies. This is also the first Super Mario game to use a life meter, which allows the characters to be hit up to four times before dying.[27]

Super Mario Bros. 3 is divided into eight themed worlds, each with 6–10 levels and several bonus stages displayed as locations on a mapped overworld. These locations are not necessarily in a linear order, and the player is occasionally permitted to skip levels or play the game out of order. Completed levels cannot be replayed. The penultimate boss stage in each world is a side-scrolling level atop an airship ("Doom Ship") with a fight against one of Bowser's seven Koopalings. The game introduced a diverse array of new power-ups, including flight as Raccoon Mario and Raccoon Luigi or the level-long P-Wing allowing flight through a whole level. Bowser is again the final boss.

Super Mario Land is the first handheld Super Mario game apart from the Game & Watch conversion of Super Mario Bros., and was released for the Game Boy in 1989. Like the Super Mario Bros. games, it is a sidescrolling platformer. Mario sets out to save Princess Daisy from the spaceman Tatanga. Items include the Super Mushroom, Super Flower,[29] which allows Mario to shoot projectiles, Super Star, and hearts, which give Mario an extra life. The game consists of twelve levels split across four worlds. Reaching the higher of two exits at each level's end activates a minigame where the player can try to get extra lives.

 
Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System is the bestselling game of the system.

Super Mario World was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and consists of nine worlds displayed via a world map. It is a direct successor to the Super Mario Bros. games, bearing the subtitle Super Mario Bros. 4 in Japan. Unlike Super Mario Bros. 3, however, where each world map is separate, the world map here covers the whole game. Some of the levels have hidden alternate exits leading to different areas. New abilities include a spin jump and the rideable Yoshi, who can eat enemies and either swallow or spit them out. Power-ups include the new Cape Feather, which lets Mario and Luigi fly with a cape, and the P-balloon, which inflates the player character to allow him to float.

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins was released for the Game Boy in 1992. It introduces Mario's rival, Wario, who took over Mario's castle during the events of Super Mario Land and forces Mario to collect the six golden coins to reenter and reclaim his castle. While its predecessor is similar to the original Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Land 2 has more in common with Super Mario World, featuring a world map and the ability to move back to the left within levels. There are 32 levels, divided into several themed worlds that each have their own boss. Three power-ups return: the Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, and Super Star. The game also introduces the Carrot power-up, which gives Mario large rabbit ears that let him glide when falling for a limited time. Its story was continued in Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, which retroactively became the first of a spin-off series, Wario Land.

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island was released for the SNES in 1995. To reunite baby Mario with his brother Luigi, who has been kidnapped by Kamek, the player controls Yoshi as the primary character through 48 levels while carrying Baby Mario. Yoshi runs and jumps to reach the end of the level while solving puzzles and collecting items. In a style new to the series, the game has a hand-drawn aesthetic. The game introduces his signature abilities to flutter jump and produce eggs from swallowed enemies. Yoshi's Island received "instant" and "universal acclaim", according to IGN and review aggregator Metacritic, and sold over four million copies. Yoshi's signature characteristics established in Yoshi's Island would carry throughout a series of cameos, spin-offs, and sequels. Sources have debated on whether Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, where the player primarily controls a Yoshi carrying Baby Mario, should count as a Super Mario game,[30][31][32] with some sources considering it strictly a Yoshi game. Miyamoto responded affirmatively when asked if Yoshi's Island is a Super Mario game, with Tezuka later adding:

"When that game debuted, I wanted people to understand that Yoshi was part of the Mario world, and that be conveyed whether through title or gameplay. To me, it's part of the Mario series, but today's Yoshi games? They've changed from those origins, so I think it's okay to think of Yoshi living in his own universe. You can think of it separately from Mario's world."[33]

1996–2005: Introduction of 3D and open-ended exploration

 
Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64 (pictured) is the first 3D and open world entry.

In the early 1990s, director and producer Shigeru Miyamoto had conceived a 3D Mario design during development of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) game Star Fox (1993). He considered using the Super FX chip to develop a SNES game, Super Mario FX, with gameplay based on "an entire world in miniature, like miniature trains".[34] He eventually reformulated the idea for the Nintendo 64, not for its substantially greater power, but because its controller has more buttons for gameplay.[35][36] Super Mario 64 was developed over approximately three years, with one year spent on the design concept and approximately two years on production.[34] Production began on September 7, 1994, and concluded on May 20, 1996.[37] Super Mario 64 is the first 3D and open world game in the series, and a launch game for the Nintendo 64 home console. Each level is an enclosed environment where the player is free to explore in all directions without time limits. The player collects Power Stars from the paintings in Peach's castle to unlock later courses and areas.[38] The Nintendo 64's analog stick makes an extensive repertoire of precise movements in all directions possible. The game introduced moves such as punching, triple jumping, and using a Wing Cap to fly. It is the first Super Mario series game to feature Charles Martinet's voice acting for Mario. Mario must once again save Princess Peach from Bowser. The game's power-ups differ from previous games, now being three different hats with temporary powers: the Wing Cap, allowing Mario to fly; the Metal Cap, turning him into metal; and the Vanish Cap, allowing him to walk through obstacles. Super Mario 64 is considered seminal to 3D video games.[39][40][41] A remake of the game called Super Mario 64 DS was released for Nintendo DS in 2004 and 2005, adding Yoshi, Luigi, and Wario as playable characters, new abilities, new objectives, multiplayer, and minigames.

Super Mario Sunshine is the second 3D Super Mario game. It was released in 2002 for the GameCube. In it, Mario and Peach travel to Isle Delfino for a vacation when a Mario doppelgänger, going by the name of Shadow Mario, appears and vandalizes the entire island. Mario is sentenced to clean the island with a water-squirting accessory called F.L.U.D.D. Super Mario Sunshine shares many similar gameplay elements with its predecessor Super Mario 64, yet introduces moves, like spinning while jumping, and several other actions through the use of F.L.U.D.D. The game contains a number of independent levels, which can be reached from the hub, Delfino Plaza. Mario collects Shine Sprites by completing tasks in the levels, which in return unlock levels in Delfino Plaza by way of abilities and plot-related events.[42] Sunshine introduces the last of Bowser's eight children, Bowser Jr., as an antagonist. Yoshi also appears again for Mario to ride in certain sections.

2006–2016: 2D revival and path-focused 3D games

 
New Super Mario Bros. series logo

After no original 2D game releases in the series since 1995, New Super Mario Bros. was released on the Nintendo DS in 2006. In it, Mario and Luigi set out to save Princess Peach from Bowser Jr. The gameplay is 2D, but most of the characters and objects are 3D on two-dimensional backgrounds, resulting in a 2.5D effect. The game uses an overworld map similar to those of Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. Some levels have multiple exits. The classic power-ups (Super Mushroom, Fire Flower and Super Star) return alongside the Mega Mushroom, Blue Shell, and Mini Mushroom.

Miyamoto explained that when he was developing Super Mario 64 with Yoshiaki Koizumi, they realized that the title would be more directed towards the "core gamer", rather than the casual, "pick-up-and-go" gamer.[43] After Sunshine, their focus shifted to more accessible, casual games, leading them to develop Super Mario Galaxy with more progression-oriented paths. Galaxy was launched in 2007 for the Wii. It is set in outer space, where Mario or Luigi travel between "galaxies" to collect Power Stars, earned by completing quests or defeating enemies. It introduced motion controls to the series. Each galaxy contains a number of planets and other space objects for the player to explore. The game's physics system gives each celestial object its own gravitational force, which lets the character circumnavigate rounded or irregular planetoids by walking sideways or upside down. The character is usually able to jump from one independent object and fall towards another close object. Though the main gameplay and physics are in 3D, there are several points in the game where the character's movements are restricted into a 2D axis. Several new power-ups appear following the new game mechanics.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009) features 4-player co-op and new power-ups: the Propeller Mushroom, the Ice Flower, and the Penguin Suit. All characters can ride Yoshi.

Super Mario Galaxy 2, released on May 23, 2010, was initially developed as an expansion pack to Galaxy, but was eventually developed into its own game. It retains the basic premise of its predecessor and includes its items and power-ups besides the Ice Flower and Red Star. New power-ups include the Cloud Flower, which allows Mario or Luigi to create platforms in mid-air and the Rock Mushroom, which turns the character into a rolling boulder. The character can also ride Yoshi. The game was released to widespread critical acclaim, getting better reviews than its predecessor.

Super Mario 3D Land was released for the Nintendo 3DS in November and December 2011. It was the first attempt to translate the gameplay of the 2D games into a 3D environment, and simplify the control scheme of the 3D games through including more linear levels. It is the first original 3D Super Mario game on a handheld console, since all previous handheld games were either 2D or a port of a previous game. It also brought back several older gameplay features, including the Super Leaf power-up last seen in Super Mario Bros. 3.

New Super Mario Bros. 2 was released in July and August 2012 for the Nintendo 3DS. The player, as Mario or Luigi, tries to save Princess Peach from Bowser and the Koopalings, with the game's secondary goal to collect one million coins. Several gameplay elements were introduced to help achieve this goal, such as the Gold Flower, a rarer variant of the Fire Flower that turns items into coins.[44][45]

New Super Mario Bros. U, the Wii U follow-up to New Super Mario Bros. Wii, was released in November 2012. It introduces both a Flying Squirrel suit that lets the characters glide through the air, and asymmetric gameplay that allows the player holding the GamePad to influence the environment. In June 2013, New Super Luigi U was released as a downloadable content (DLC) package for the game, featuring shorter, but more difficult levels, starring Luigi as the main protagonist instead of his brother. Subsequently, it was released as a standalone retail game on August 25 in North America.[46] The Nintendo Switch port New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe includes both the main game and New Super Luigi U, and new playable characters Nabbit and Toadette.[47]

Super Mario 3D World, the sequel to 3D Land, was released for the Wii U on November 22, 2013, in North America, and used the same gameplay mechanics as its predecessor.[48] Co-operative multiplayer is available for up to four players. The game introduced the ability to turn the characters into cats able to attack and scale walls to reach new areas, and to create clones of the characters. Like Super Mario Bros. 2, it features Princess Peach and Toad as playable characters in addition to Mario and Luigi. Rosalina from Super Mario Galaxy is also unlocked later in the game. Miyamoto said that "even though that's a 3D game, it's a little more accessible to everybody."

 
Super Mario Maker series logo

Super Mario Maker is a creation tool released for the Wii U in September 2015[49] which allows players to create their own levels based on the gameplay and style of Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, and New Super Mario Bros. U, as well as to share their creations online. Based on existing games, several gameplay mechanics were introduced for the game, with existing ones also available to be used together in new ways. A Nintendo 3DS version of the game called Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS, was released in December 2016. It features a few new pre-installed levels, but no online level sharing. Super Mario Maker 2 is a new version of Super Mario Maker with many new items, themes, and enemies, a world-builder, as well as online multiplayer. The game was released on June 28, 2019, for the Nintendo Switch.

Super Mario Run is a side-scrolling and auto-scrolling video game released in December 2016 on the iOS platform, then in March 2017 on Android. It is the first official Super Mario game developed for mobile devices. As such, it features simplified controls that allow it to be played with only one hand. In this game, the character runs automatically, with the player controlling the jumping action to avoid hazards. This is achieved by touching the tactile screens these devices are built with. The longer the player touches the jump button, the higher the character jumps. This game also includes a "Toad Rally" mode, similar to the "VS Boo" mode of Super Mario Bros Deluxe, in which players have to complete a level faster than a computer-controlled Toad. Success in this mode earns the player access to in-game money to spend on customizing the Mushroom Kingdom map, using mechanics similar to FarmVille. This is the first Super Mario game that Princess Daisy is playable in and the first to feature a music track with vocals.[50][51][52]

2017–2021: Return to open-ended exploration

After having fallen out of favor by the mid-2000s, open-world "collectathon" 3D platformers such as Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong 64 had become less common.[53] For example, the 3D adventure game Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (2008) explicitly mocked the perceived tedium of collecting large quantities of tokens.[54] By the mid-2010s, however, 3D platformers were aiming to replicate such experiences, including Yooka-Laylee and A Hat in Time. Super Mario Odyssey is a return to the open-world "sandbox" 3D style of gameplay,[55][56][57] with "more open-ended exploration like in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine."[58] It was released in October 2017 for Nintendo Switch.[59]

Bowser's Fury is part of the 2021 re-release of Super Mario 3D World on the Nintendo Switch. It implements 3D open-world "free-roaming" gameplay in a similar fashion to Odyssey, from which it includes many elements.[60][61]

2023: Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is an upcoming 2D sidescrolling Super Mario game announced on June 21, 2023 for release on October 20 of the same year. Playable characters include Mario, Luigi, Toad, Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, and Yoshi. When touching a Wonder Flower, the player character experiences strange effects that involve the character and the world being altered.

Remakes and remasters

Game System Year Original game(s)
Super Mario All-Stars (+ Super Mario World) Super NES 1993/1994 Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario World[d]
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe Game Boy Color 1999 Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
Super Mario Advance Game Boy Advance 2001/2002 Super Mario Bros. 2
Mario Bros.
Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 Game Boy Advance 2001 Super Mario World
Mario Bros.
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 Game Boy Advance 2002 Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Mario Bros.
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 Game Boy Advance 2003/2004 Super Mario Bros. 3
Mario Bros.
Super Mario 64 DS Nintendo DS 2004/2005 Super Mario 64
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe Nintendo Switch 2019 New Super Mario Bros. U
New Super Luigi U
Super Mario 3D All-Stars Nintendo Switch 2020 Super Mario 64
Super Mario Sunshine
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Nintendo Switch 2021 Super Mario 3D World

Reception

Sales and aggregate review scores
As of December 31, 2021.
Game Year Units sold
(in millions) 		GameRankings Metacritic
(out of 100)
Super Mario Bros. 1985 NES: 40.23[62]
GBC: 10.55[63]
GBA: – 		NES: 86%[64]
GBC: 92%[65]
GBA: 80%[66]		 NES: –
GBC: –
GBA: 84[67]
Super Mario Bros. 2 1988 NES: 7.46[63]
GBA: 5.57[68]		 NES: 81%[69]
GBA: 82%[70]		 NES: –
GBA: 84[71]
Super Mario Bros. 3 1988 NES: 17.28[63]
GBA: 5.43[68]		 NES: 97%[72]
GBA: 92%[73]		 NES: –
GBA: 94[74]
Super Mario Land 1989 18.14[63] 77%[75] –
Super Mario World 1990 SNES: 20.61[76]
GBA: 5.69[63]		 SNES: 94%[77]
GBA: 92%[78]		 SNES: –
GBA: 92[79]
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins 1992 11.18[63] 79%[80] –
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island 1990 SNES: –
GBA: – 		SNES: –
GBA: – 		SNES: –
GBA: –
Super Mario All-Stars 1993 10.55[63] 90%[81] –
Super Mario 64 1996 N64: 11.91[82]
DS: 11.06[83]		 N64: 96%[84]
DS: 86%[85]		 N64: 94[86]
DS: 85[87]
Super Mario Sunshine 2002 6.28[63] 91%[88] 92[89]
New Super Mario Bros. 2006 30.80[83] 89%[90] 89[91]
Super Mario Galaxy 2007 12.80[92] 97%[93] 97[94]
New Super Mario Bros. Wii 2009 30.32[92] 88%[95] 87[96]
Super Mario Galaxy 2 2010 7.41[63] 97%[97] 97[98]
Super Mario 3D Land 2011 12.84[99] 90%[100] 90[101]
New Super Mario Bros. 2 2012 13.39[99] 78%[102] 78[103]
New Super Mario Bros. U 2012 Wii U: 5.81[104]
Switch: 12.72[105]		 Wii U: 84%[106]
Switch: 81%[107]		 Wii U: 84[108]
Switch: 81[109]
Super Mario 3D World 2013 Wii U: 5.88[104]
Switch: 8.85[105]		 Wii U: 92%[110]
Switch: – 		Wii U: 93[111]
Switch: 89[112]
Super Mario Maker 2015 Wii U: 4.02[104]
3DS: 2.01[113]		 Wii U: 89%[114]
3DS: 72%[115]		 Wii U: 88[116]
3DS: 73[117]
Super Mario Run 2016 – – 76[118]
Super Mario Odyssey 2017 23.02[119] 97%[120] 97[121]
Super Mario Maker 2 2019 7.15[122] – 88[123]
Super Mario 3D All-Stars 2020 9.01[122] – 82[124]

The Super Mario series has seen tremendous critical acclaim from both critics and audiences. The series was ranked as the best game franchise by IGN in 2006.[125] In 1996 Next Generation ranked the series as number 5 on their "Top 100 Games of All Time",[e] additionally ranking Super Mario 64 at number 1 although stating the rule that series of games be confined to a single entry.[126] In 1999, Next Generation listed the Mario series as number 3 on their "Top 50 Games of All Time", commenting that, "The depth of the game design was never matched in 2D and has yet to be equaled by a 3D action performer. The gameplay is simply genius – Shigeru Miyamoto wrote the book on platformers."[127] Electronic Gaming Monthly attributed the series' excellence to the developers' tireless creativity and innovation, pointing out that "Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series changed very little in its four installments on the Genesis. The Mario series has changed significantly with each new game."[128]

The original Super Mario Bros. was awarded the top spot on Electronic Gaming Monthly's greatest 200 games of their time list[129] and IGN's top 100 games of all-time list twice (in 2005 and 2007).[130] Super Mario Bros. popularized side-scrolling video games and provided the basic concept and mechanics that persisted throughout the rest of the series. Super Mario Bros. sold 40.24 million copies, making it the bestselling video game of the whole series.[131] Various other video games of the series were ranked as the best within the series.[132][133][77] Games included are Super Mario Bros. 3,[134] Super Mario World[135] and Super Mario 64 to name a few.[136][137] Before Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario Galaxy has been for 10 years the best-ranked game on GameRankings.[138][93]

Sales

Super Mario is one of the best-selling video game franchises, having sold more than 380 million units worldwide as of 2021.[139] The first seven Super Mario games (including the first three Super Mario Bros. titles, the first two Super Mario Land titles, and Super Mario World) had sold 100 million units by March 1993.[140]

Games in the Super Mario series have had consistently strong sales, ranking among the best-selling video games of all time. Super Mario Bros. sold more than 50 million units worldwide sold across multiple platforms by 1996.[141] The original NES version sold 40.23 million units and is the best-selling NES game, with its two sequels, Super Mario Bros. 3 (18 million copies) and Super Mario Bros. 2 (10 million copies), ranking in second and third place respectively.[82] Super Mario World is the best-selling game for the SNES console, selling 20 million copies. Super Mario World is also the seventh bestselling game of all time. Super Mario 64 sold the most copies for the Nintendo 64 (11 million), whereas Super Mario Sunshine is the second bestselling game (5.5 million) on the GameCube (second to Super Smash Bros. Melee). Super Mario Galaxy has sold 12.80 million units as of March 2020, which was the bestselling 3D game in the series until 2019, and is the ninth bestselling game for the Wii.[92] Its sequel Super Mario Galaxy 2 has 7.41 million units sold, placing in twelfth. Super Mario 3D World was the second bestselling game on the Wii U and along with its more popular Switch port has sold over 14 million copies combined making it the 2nd bestselling 3D Mario game.[142][63] Super Mario Odyssey has 23.50 million units sold as of December 2021, making it the bestselling 3D game in the series to date, and among the best-selling games for the Nintendo Switch.[119] New Super Mario Bros. Wii has sold 30.32 million copies worldwide, the fourth bestselling game on the Wii, as well as one of the bestselling video games of all time.[92]

The Super Mario series also sold well on handheld consoles. Super Mario Land has sold 18.14 million copies, and is the fourth bestselling game for the Game Boy. Its sequel, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, sold 11.18 million copies, placing sixth.[143] New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS sold 30.80 million units, making it the bestselling game for the console, and the bestselling portable entry.

For all console and handheld games that have not been bundled with a console, Super Mario Bros. 3 is the fourth bestselling game, whereas New Super Mario Bros. is fifth, Super Mario Land is eleventh, and Super Mario 64 is eighteenth.

In the United Kingdom, Super Mario Bros. is the most famous video game brand, recognized by 91% of the UK adult population as of 2021.[144]

Legacy

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Japanese: スーパーマリオ, Hepburn: Sūpā Mario
  2. ^ Japanese: スーパーマリオブラザーズ, Hepburn: Sūpā Mario Burazāzu
  3. ^ Japanese: マリオ
  4. ^ Not included in original version of All-Stars.
  5. ^ The entry name is "Mario (series)", but the description as a "side-scrolling platformer" makes it clear that Next Generation meant the Super Mario series specifically.

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For other uses see Super Mario disambiguation Super Mario a also known as Super Mario Bros b and Mario c is a platform game series created by Nintendo starring their mascot Mario It is the central series of the greater Mario franchise At least one Super Mario game has been released for every major Nintendo video game console There are more than 20 games in the series Super MarioLogo since 2011Genre s PlatformDeveloper s Nintendo EAD 1985 2015 Nintendo EPD 2016 present Publisher s NintendoCreator s Shigeru MiyamotoArtist s Yoichi Kotabe Shigehisa NakaueComposer s Koji KondoMahito YokotaPlatform s Game amp WatchNESFamicom Disk SystemArcadeGame BoySuper NESNintendo 64Game Boy ColorGame Boy AdvanceGameCubeNintendo DSWiiNintendo 3DSWii UiOSAndroidNintendo SwitchFirst releaseSuper Mario Bros September 13 1985Latest releaseSuper Mario 3D World Bowser s FuryFebruary 12 2021Spin offsLuigiYoshiWarioMario KartMario PartyPaper MarioMario amp LuigiThe Super Mario games are set primarily in the fictional Mushroom Kingdom typically with Mario as the player character He is usually joined by his brother Luigi and often by other members of the Mario cast As platform games they involve the player character running and jumping across platforms and atop enemies in themed levels The games have simple plots typically with Mario and Luigi rescuing the kidnapped Princess Peach from the primary antagonist Bowser The first game in the series Super Mario Bros released for the Nintendo Entertainment System NES in 1985 established the series core gameplay concepts and elements These include a multitude of power ups and items that give the character special powers such as fireball throwing and size changing 1 The Super Mario series is part of the greater Mario franchise which includes other video game genres and media such as film television printed media and merchandise More than 380 million copies of Super Mario games have been sold worldwide making it the fifth bestselling video game series behind the larger Mario franchise the puzzle series Tetris the series Pokemon video games and first person shooter series Call of Duty 2 Contents 1 Gameplay 1 1 Playable characters 1 1 1 Power ups and transformations 1 1 2 Projectiles 1 1 3 Ridable animals and vehicles 1 2 Blocks 1 3 Extra lives 1 4 Invincibility 1 5 Collectibles 1 6 Warp Pipes and Warp Cannons 1 7 Minigames 1 8 Music 2 Development 2 1 1985 1995 2D origins 2 2 1996 2005 Introduction of 3D and open ended exploration 2 3 2006 2016 2D revival and path focused 3D games 2 4 2017 2021 Return to open ended exploration 2 5 2023 Super Mario Bros Wonder 2 6 Remakes and remasters 3 Reception 3 1 Sales 4 Legacy 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 External linksGameplayThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Super Mario news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message The objective of the game is to progress through levels by defeating enemies collecting items and solving puzzles without dying Power up use is integral to the series The series has installments featuring both two and three dimensional gameplay In the 2D games the player character usually Mario jumps on platforms and enemies while avoiding their attacks and moving to the right of the scrolling screen 2D Super Mario game levels have single exit objectives which must be reached within a time limit and lead to the next sequential level Super Mario Bros 3 introduced the overworld a map of nonlinear levels that branches according to the player s choice 3 Super Mario World introduced levels with multiple exits 3D installments in the series have had two subgenres open world exploration based games and more linear 3D games with a predetermined path 4 Levels in the open world games 64 Sunshine and Odyssey allow the player to freely explore multiple enclosed environments in 360 degree movement As the game progresses more environments become accessible 5 The linear 3D games Galaxy Galaxy 2 3D Land and 3D World feature more fixed camera angles and a predetermined path to a single goal Playable characters The series often features the option to play as characters other than Mario usually Luigi Earlier games have offered an alternating multiplayer mode in which the second player controls Luigi on their turn Luigi is often only playable by player one in a second more challenging iteration of the base game such as in The Lost Levels Galaxy 2 New Super Luigi U and the special worlds in 3D Land these feature lower gravity and reduced friction for Luigi Later games allow four player simultaneous play Playable characters other than Mario and Luigi have included Toads Peach Yoshi Wario Rosalina Miis Toadette Nabbit Daisy and Bowser Jr Characters are sometimes differentiated by special abilities Super Mario Maker though not Super Mario Maker 2 includes costumes that depict many more characters Power ups and transformations Super Mushroom as depicted in New Super Mario Bros U UGO described it as the quintessential power up 6 Mushroom power ups appear in almost every Super Mario game The most iconic of these is the Super Mushroom 6 7 The Super Mushroom increases the character s size turning them into a Super variant and allows them to break certain blocks When hit by an enemy the character reverts to their smaller size instead of losing a life 6 When the character is in their Super form most blocks that would contain a Super Mushroom instead offer a more powerful power up such as the Fire Flower The Super Mushroom is similar in appearance to the Amanita muscaria with an ivory stalk below a most commonly red and white originally red and orange spotted cap Created by chance Shigeru Miyamoto stated in an interview that beta tests of Super Mario Bros proved Mario too tall so the development team implemented mushrooms to grow and shrink Mario 8 Different variants of mushroom power ups appear in the series For example Super Mario Bros The Lost Levels introduces the Poison Mushroom which causes damage when collected and New Super Mario Bros introduces the Mini Mushroom which shrinks the character to miniature size and the Mega Mushroom grows the character into a towering invulnerable giant who destroys enemies and the environment by running through them 9 Super Mario Bros 3 introduces suits to the Super Mario series many of which are based on animals or Mario enemies The Raccoon Suit provisioned by a Super Leaf and the Tanooki Suit each provide the character with a tail that enables flight In addition the Tanooki Suit lets the character spontaneously change into an invincible statue for about five seconds Super Mario Bros 3 includes a Hammer Bros suit which allows Mario and Luigi to throw hammers as projectiles to defeat enemies at a distance Other suits in later games in the series include the Frog Suit Penguin Suit Cat Suit Boomerang Suit and Bee Suit Projectiles The flower power ups let the player character shoot projectiles The Fire Flower introduced in Super Mario Bros transforms the character into a Fire variant who can throw bouncing fireballs at enemies Galaxy is the first 3D Super Mario game to have the Fire Flower In Land and Maker 2 the Superball is a bouncing ball obtained from a Super Flower which the character can use to defeat enemies and collect coins The Ice Flower transforms the character into an Ice variant who can shoot balls of ice as projectiles similar to those of the Fire Flower they freeze enemies in blocks of ice that can used as platforms or thrown as projectiles as seen in New Super Mario Bros Wii and New Super Mario Bros U 10 In Galaxy the Ice Flower turns Mario or Luigi into ice and lets him walk on lava or water for a limited time by freezing the surface Lastly New Super Mario Bros 2 s Gold Flower lets Mario or Luigi turn bricks into coins and earn bonus coins for defeating enemies Koopa Shells serve as a major projectile in the series featuring since the original game The character can throw them to defeat enemies collect coins and activate the functions of blocks Power ups are available for Yoshi to breathe fire in World Yoshi s Island and 64 DS breathe freezing air and spit seeds in Yoshi s Island spit out enemies in the World games and spit juice in Sunshine Other power ups let the character throw bombs boomerangs and baseballs and shoot cannonballs In Odyssey Mario can possess characters some of which can launch various projectiles Flying shoot em up gameplay also appears in the series Mario pilots the armed Sky Pop biplane and Marine Pop submarine in Land The Koopa Clown Car aircraft of Bowser and the Koopalings can sometimes shoot fireballs in Maker Ridable animals and vehicles Apart from automated objects in levels that may transport the player character certain ridable animals and vehicles have appeared that the player controls Mario s dinosaur friend Yoshi has appeared as a mount to the player character in several Super Mario games since Super Mario World In Yoshi s Island and 64 DS instead of the player character merely riding on Yoshi s back Yoshi is the player character Yoshis generally have abilities including eating enemies flying and breathing fire Miyamoto had originally wished for Mario to be able to ride a dinosaur in Super Mario Bros but this wasn t possible due to the technical restraints of the system citation needed Poochi is a dog featuring in Yoshi s Island who Yoshi can ride Plesiosaurs Dorrie and Plessie can be ridden by the player characters in 64 and 3D World respectively 11 12 with Plessie serving a larger role in Bowser s Fury 13 Various vehicles that the player character can control have also appeared These include a magic carpet in 2 flying clouds in several 2D games submarines in Land and Yoshi s Island an airplane in Land a helicopter train and mole tank in Yoshi s Island cars in Yoshi s Island and Maker 2 and the Koopa Clown Car aircraft in the Maker games Blocks Most items in the Super Mario series appear from item blocks when hit which originated in Super Mario Bros and have persisted throughout the series where the character hits a block to receive either coins or power ups Variations include those that are invisible until hit advice dispensers produce another block move frozen contingent on a switch bouncy etc The propeller block lets the character spin up into the air and slowly descend and the Gold Block generates coins through running A single block is the unit of measurement in the design of Super Mario levels Extra lives Player characters can gain extra lives in most of the games The 1 Up mushroom was introduced in Super Mario Bros with the term 1 up subsequently being used generically in other video game series to refer to extra lives In the monochromatic Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2 instead of a differently colored mushroom the 1 Up is shown as a heart Super Mario World introduced the 3 Up Moon 1 Ups can also be earned through collecting a certain number of coins or playing minigames Invincibility Invincibility is an effect first appearing in the three Super Mario Bros games where it is granted by a Starman 14 15 16 an anthropomorphized flashing star The star has also been named the Super Star in the two Super Mario World games as well as the New Super Mario Bros games 17 18 and the Rainbow Star in the two Super Mario Galaxy games Picking up the star makes the character temporarily invincible able to resist any harm Use of the item is accompanied by a distinctive music track that appears consistently across most of the games The player character flickers a variety of colors and in some games moves with increased speed and enhanced jumping ability while under the Star s influence While invincible the character defeats any enemy upon contact with it In Super Mario World 2 Yoshi s Island the star gives the normally immobile baby Mario the ability to run as well as become invincible In Super Mario 64 and 64 DS invincibility is provided when the character becomes metal or intangible The Mega Mushroom provides temporary invincibility with the addition of giant size and environment destruction see Power ups and transformations Collectibles Super Mario level design traditionally incorporates many distributed coins as puzzles and rewards Most Super Mario games award the player an extra life once a certain amount of gold coins are collected commonly 50 or 100 Several coin variants exist such as silver coins dragon coins star coins and more In 64 Sunshine Galaxy and Galaxy 2 coins replenish health and air when the character is underwater In 64 and Sunshine collecting 100 coins in a level results in a Power Star or Shine Sprite respectively There are also stages in that game reward a Power Star for collecting eight red coins in a level worth two normal coins each In 64 a blue coin is worth five normal coins In Sunshine blue coins act as a side quest when brought to the Delfino Bank and for every ten blue coins deposited Mario will earn a Shine Sprite In the Galaxy series after finishing each game once stages unlock where Mario or Luigi can collect 100 purple coins to earn a Power Star In Galaxy 2 they can also be used to feed some hungry Luma characters that can turn into either an item or another planet The games often feature other tokens found in levels to progress in the overworld most frequently with the visual motif of a star They are typically situated in locations that are not readily found or reached or awarded for completing stunts or objectives given by NPCs They include the Power Stars in Super Mario 64 and the Super Mario Galaxy games Shine Sprites in Super Mario Sunshine and Bowser s Fury Star Coins in the New Super Mario Bros series and Super Mario 3D Land Green Stars in the Galaxy games and Super Mario 3D World and Power Moons in Super Mario Odyssey In Super Mario Land 2 there are six Golden Coin tokens that must be collected to finish the game Warp Pipes and Warp Cannons See also Warp video games The Warp Pipe is a common method of transportation used in many of the Mario series games Warp Pipes are most often green but also appear in other colors early games included silver pipes newer games have introduced red green blue and yellow pipes and have many uses in the series Warp Pipes can also contain enemies usually Piranha Plants and sometimes launch the player into the air most commonly seen in the New Super Mario Bros series In early Mario games such as Super Mario Bros special well hidden areas known as Warp Zones contain pipes that allow players to skip several worlds handfuls of levels at once 19 In the New Super Mario Bros series pipe shaped Warp Cannons work similarly to the Warp Zones of the earlier games and are unlocked by finding secret exits in levels Cannons appear in most of the 3D games in the series starting with Super Mario 64 The character uses the cannon by jumping into the barrel aiming themself and being fired at a distant target This allows the character to progress through a level or reach otherwise inaccessible areas Minigames Many games in the series feature minigames supplemental to the platforming gameplay usually offering the chance to win extra lives or power ups Super Mario Bros 2 and 3D World feature slot machines Super Mario Bros 3 and the New Super Mario Bros games contain Toad Houses that host skill and luck based activities such as shell games The Land games feature end of level minigames for acquiring extra lives The Battle Mode in the All Stars version of Super Mario Bros 3 and the Advance series of remakes all feature versions of Mario Bros as a minigame Yoshi s Island enables a minigame when certain conditions are met when completing a level 64 DS contains over 30 minigames that can be accessed independently of the original mode of play 3D World contains Luigi Bros a version of Mario Bros with two Luigis and the Switch version of 3D World includes Bowser s Fury a 3D platformer of smaller size in one enclosed environment citation needed Music Much of the original Super Mario Bros music and sound effects have become iconic to the series and incorporated into modern games The original Super Mario Bros theme composed by Koji Kondo has become one of the most well known video game themes around the world 20 Super Mario Galaxy released in 2007 became the first game in the Super Mario series to feature orchestrated music 21 which would return in its sequel and other subsequent games such as Super Mario 3D World 22 DevelopmentRelease timeline1985Super Mario Bros 1986Super Mario Bros The Lost Levels19871988Super Mario Bros 2Super Mario Bros 31989Super Mario Land1990Super Mario World19911992Super Mario Land 2 6 Golden Coins199319941995Super Mario World 2 Yoshi s Island1996Super Mario 64199719981999200020012002Super Mario Sunshine2003200420052006New Super Mario Bros 2007Super Mario Galaxy20082009New Super Mario Bros Wii2010Super Mario Galaxy 22011Super Mario 3D Land2012New Super Mario Bros 2New Super Mario Bros U2013Super Mario 3D World20142015Super Mario Maker2016Super Mario Run2017Super Mario Odyssey20182019Super Mario Maker 220202021Super Mario 3D World Bowser s Fury20222023Super Mario Bros Wonder1985 1995 2D origins Super Mario Bros released in 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System was the first game in the series and the first 2D side scrolling platform game to feature Mario Super Mario Bros director Takashi Tezuka producer Shigeru Miyamoto and composer Koji Kondo pictured in 2015Super Mario Bros the first side scrolling 2D platform game to feature Mario was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System NES in 1985 It was derived through collaboration by Nintendo s Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka as a successor to the 1983 arcade game Mario Bros which starred two characters Mario the titular character that first appeared in Donkey Kong as the original player character and its sequel where he was a final boss and Luigi who first appeared in Mario Bros 23 Super Mario Bros established many core Mario elements such as Goombas Koopa Troopas Bowser Peach and its three power ups the Super Mushroom increasing the character s size and providing an extra hit point Fire Flower allowing the character to throw fireballs as weapons and Super Star granting temporary invincibility The Super in the title came from the integration of the Super Mushroom into the game 24 The brothers Mario and Luigi must rescue Princess Toadstool Peach from Bowser King Koopa in the Mushroom Kingdom The game consists of eight worlds of four levels each totaling 32 levels altogether Though the worlds differ in themes the fourth level is always a fortress or castle that ends with a fight against Bowser or one of his minions disguised as him 25 Super Mario Bros is one of the best selling video games of all time 26 Super Mario Bros The Lost Levels known as Super Mario Bros 2 in Japan is the first sequel to the original Super Mario Bros It uses the Super Mario Bros engine with additions such as weather character movements and more complex levels altogether yielding a much higher difficulty The game follows the same style of level progression as Super Mario Bros with eight initial worlds of four levels each At that time this sequel was not released outside Japan since Nintendo of America did not want the Super Mario series to be known to players outside of Japan for frustrating difficulty It remained inaccessible to a steadily broadening market of American video game players becoming stylistically outdated by the time the Japanese Super Mario Bros 2 could be eventually delivered to America 27 The game later debuted outside Japan in 1993 as Super Mario Bros The Lost Levels in the compilation game Super Mario All Stars for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System SNES In Super Mario Bros 2 known as Super Mario USA in Japan Mario and his companions seek to defeat the evil frog Wart in the Subcon dreamland Based on a discarded prototype 28 the game was instead originally released as Yume Kōjō Doki Doki Panic in Japan and was ultimately converted into a Mario game for the rest of the world as Super Mario Bros 2 before being released in Japan as Super Mario USA as part of Super Mario All Stars One of the game s most defining aspects is the four player characters not only Mario but Luigi Princess Peach and Toad are available for single player gameplay each with defined character movements Luigi jumps higher the Princess can hover in the air for a short amount of time and Toad is the fastest Characters here also can pluck items from the ground to throw at enemies This is also the first Super Mario game to use a life meter which allows the characters to be hit up to four times before dying 27 Super Mario Bros 3 is divided into eight themed worlds each with 6 10 levels and several bonus stages displayed as locations on a mapped overworld These locations are not necessarily in a linear order and the player is occasionally permitted to skip levels or play the game out of order Completed levels cannot be replayed The penultimate boss stage in each world is a side scrolling level atop an airship Doom Ship with a fight against one of Bowser s seven Koopalings The game introduced a diverse array of new power ups including flight as Raccoon Mario and Raccoon Luigi or the level long P Wing allowing flight through a whole level Bowser is again the final boss Super Mario Land is the first handheld Super Mario game apart from the Game amp Watch conversion of Super Mario Bros and was released for the Game Boy in 1989 Like the Super Mario Bros games it is a sidescrolling platformer Mario sets out to save Princess Daisy from the spaceman Tatanga Items include the Super Mushroom Super Flower 29 which allows Mario to shoot projectiles Super Star and hearts which give Mario an extra life The game consists of twelve levels split across four worlds Reaching the higher of two exits at each level s end activates a minigame where the player can try to get extra lives Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System is the bestselling game of the system Super Mario World was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and consists of nine worlds displayed via a world map It is a direct successor to the Super Mario Bros games bearing the subtitle Super Mario Bros 4 in Japan Unlike Super Mario Bros 3 however where each world map is separate the world map here covers the whole game Some of the levels have hidden alternate exits leading to different areas New abilities include a spin jump and the rideable Yoshi who can eat enemies and either swallow or spit them out Power ups include the new Cape Feather which lets Mario and Luigi fly with a cape and the P balloon which inflates the player character to allow him to float Super Mario Land 2 6 Golden Coins was released for the Game Boy in 1992 It introduces Mario s rival Wario who took over Mario s castle during the events of Super Mario Land and forces Mario to collect the six golden coins to reenter and reclaim his castle While its predecessor is similar to the original Super Mario Bros Super Mario Land 2 has more in common with Super Mario World featuring a world map and the ability to move back to the left within levels There are 32 levels divided into several themed worlds that each have their own boss Three power ups return the Super Mushroom Fire Flower and Super Star The game also introduces the Carrot power up which gives Mario large rabbit ears that let him glide when falling for a limited time Its story was continued in Wario Land Super Mario Land 3 which retroactively became the first of a spin off series Wario Land Super Mario World 2 Yoshi s Island was released for the SNES in 1995 To reunite baby Mario with his brother Luigi who has been kidnapped by Kamek the player controls Yoshi as the primary character through 48 levels while carrying Baby Mario Yoshi runs and jumps to reach the end of the level while solving puzzles and collecting items In a style new to the series the game has a hand drawn aesthetic The game introduces his signature abilities to flutter jump and produce eggs from swallowed enemies Yoshi s Island received instant and universal acclaim according to IGN and review aggregator Metacritic and sold over four million copies Yoshi s signature characteristics established in Yoshi s Island would carry throughout a series of cameos spin offs and sequels Sources have debated on whether Super Mario World 2 Yoshi s Island where the player primarily controls a Yoshi carrying Baby Mario should count as a Super Mario game 30 31 32 with some sources considering it strictly a Yoshi game Miyamoto responded affirmatively when asked if Yoshi s Island is a Super Mario game with Tezuka later adding When that game debuted I wanted people to understand that Yoshi was part of the Mario world and that be conveyed whether through title or gameplay To me it s part of the Mario series but today s Yoshi games They ve changed from those origins so I think it s okay to think of Yoshi living in his own universe You can think of it separately from Mario s world 33 1996 2005 Introduction of 3D and open ended exploration Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64 pictured is the first 3D and open world entry In the early 1990s director and producer Shigeru Miyamoto had conceived a 3D Mario design during development of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System SNES game Star Fox 1993 He considered using the Super FX chip to develop a SNES game Super Mario FX with gameplay based on an entire world in miniature like miniature trains 34 He eventually reformulated the idea for the Nintendo 64 not for its substantially greater power but because its controller has more buttons for gameplay 35 36 Super Mario 64 was developed over approximately three years with one year spent on the design concept and approximately two years on production 34 Production began on September 7 1994 and concluded on May 20 1996 37 Super Mario 64 is the first 3D and open world game in the series and a launch game for the Nintendo 64 home console Each level is an enclosed environment where the player is free to explore in all directions without time limits The player collects Power Stars from the paintings in Peach s castle to unlock later courses and areas 38 The Nintendo 64 s analog stick makes an extensive repertoire of precise movements in all directions possible The game introduced moves such as punching triple jumping and using a Wing Cap to fly It is the first Super Mario series game to feature Charles Martinet s voice acting for Mario Mario must once again save Princess Peach from Bowser The game s power ups differ from previous games now being three different hats with temporary powers the Wing Cap allowing Mario to fly the Metal Cap turning him into metal and the Vanish Cap allowing him to walk through obstacles Super Mario 64 is considered seminal to 3D video games 39 40 41 A remake of the game called Super Mario 64 DS was released for Nintendo DS in 2004 and 2005 adding Yoshi Luigi and Wario as playable characters new abilities new objectives multiplayer and minigames Super Mario Sunshine is the second 3D Super Mario game It was released in 2002 for the GameCube In it Mario and Peach travel to Isle Delfino for a vacation when a Mario doppelganger going by the name of Shadow Mario appears and vandalizes the entire island Mario is sentenced to clean the island with a water squirting accessory called F L U D D Super Mario Sunshine shares many similar gameplay elements with its predecessor Super Mario 64 yet introduces moves like spinning while jumping and several other actions through the use of F L U D D The game contains a number of independent levels which can be reached from the hub Delfino Plaza Mario collects Shine Sprites by completing tasks in the levels which in return unlock levels in Delfino Plaza by way of abilities and plot related events 42 Sunshine introduces the last of Bowser s eight children Bowser Jr as an antagonist Yoshi also appears again for Mario to ride in certain sections 2006 2016 2D revival and path focused 3D games New Super Mario Bros series logoAfter no original 2D game releases in the series since 1995 New Super Mario Bros was released on the Nintendo DS in 2006 In it Mario and Luigi set out to save Princess Peach from Bowser Jr The gameplay is 2D but most of the characters and objects are 3D on two dimensional backgrounds resulting in a 2 5D effect The game uses an overworld map similar to those of Super Mario Bros Deluxe Some levels have multiple exits The classic power ups Super Mushroom Fire Flower and Super Star return alongside the Mega Mushroom Blue Shell and Mini Mushroom Miyamoto explained that when he was developing Super Mario 64 with Yoshiaki Koizumi they realized that the title would be more directed towards the core gamer rather than the casual pick up and go gamer 43 After Sunshine their focus shifted to more accessible casual games leading them to develop Super Mario Galaxy with more progression oriented paths Galaxy was launched in 2007 for the Wii It is set in outer space where Mario or Luigi travel between galaxies to collect Power Stars earned by completing quests or defeating enemies It introduced motion controls to the series Each galaxy contains a number of planets and other space objects for the player to explore The game s physics system gives each celestial object its own gravitational force which lets the character circumnavigate rounded or irregular planetoids by walking sideways or upside down The character is usually able to jump from one independent object and fall towards another close object Though the main gameplay and physics are in 3D there are several points in the game where the character s movements are restricted into a 2D axis Several new power ups appear following the new game mechanics New Super Mario Bros Wii 2009 features 4 player co op and new power ups the Propeller Mushroom the Ice Flower and the Penguin Suit All characters can ride Yoshi Super Mario Galaxy 2 released on May 23 2010 was initially developed as an expansion pack to Galaxy but was eventually developed into its own game It retains the basic premise of its predecessor and includes its items and power ups besides the Ice Flower and Red Star New power ups include the Cloud Flower which allows Mario or Luigi to create platforms in mid air and the Rock Mushroom which turns the character into a rolling boulder The character can also ride Yoshi The game was released to widespread critical acclaim getting better reviews than its predecessor Super Mario 3D Land was released for the Nintendo 3DS in November and December 2011 It was the first attempt to translate the gameplay of the 2D games into a 3D environment and simplify the control scheme of the 3D games through including more linear levels It is the first original 3D Super Mario game on a handheld console since all previous handheld games were either 2D or a port of a previous game It also brought back several older gameplay features including the Super Leaf power up last seen in Super Mario Bros 3 New Super Mario Bros 2 was released in July and August 2012 for the Nintendo 3DS The player as Mario or Luigi tries to save Princess Peach from Bowser and the Koopalings with the game s secondary goal to collect one million coins Several gameplay elements were introduced to help achieve this goal such as the Gold Flower a rarer variant of the Fire Flower that turns items into coins 44 45 New Super Mario Bros U the Wii U follow up to New Super Mario Bros Wii was released in November 2012 It introduces both a Flying Squirrel suit that lets the characters glide through the air and asymmetric gameplay that allows the player holding the GamePad to influence the environment In June 2013 New Super Luigi U was released as a downloadable content DLC package for the game featuring shorter but more difficult levels starring Luigi as the main protagonist instead of his brother Subsequently it was released as a standalone retail game on August 25 in North America 46 The Nintendo Switch port New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe includes both the main game and New Super Luigi U and new playable characters Nabbit and Toadette 47 Super Mario 3D World the sequel to 3D Land was released for the Wii U on November 22 2013 in North America and used the same gameplay mechanics as its predecessor 48 Co operative multiplayer is available for up to four players The game introduced the ability to turn the characters into cats able to attack and scale walls to reach new areas and to create clones of the characters Like Super Mario Bros 2 it features Princess Peach and Toad as playable characters in addition to Mario and Luigi Rosalina from Super Mario Galaxy is also unlocked later in the game Miyamoto said that even though that s a 3D game it s a little more accessible to everybody Super Mario Maker series logoSuper Mario Maker is a creation tool released for the Wii U in September 2015 49 which allows players to create their own levels based on the gameplay and style of Super Mario Bros Super Mario Bros 3 Super Mario World and New Super Mario Bros U as well as to share their creations online Based on existing games several gameplay mechanics were introduced for the game with existing ones also available to be used together in new ways A Nintendo 3DS version of the game called Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS was released in December 2016 It features a few new pre installed levels but no online level sharing Super Mario Maker 2 is a new version of Super Mario Maker with many new items themes and enemies a world builder as well as online multiplayer The game was released on June 28 2019 for the Nintendo Switch Super Mario Run is a side scrolling and auto scrolling video game released in December 2016 on the iOS platform then in March 2017 on Android It is the first official Super Mario game developed for mobile devices As such it features simplified controls that allow it to be played with only one hand In this game the character runs automatically with the player controlling the jumping action to avoid hazards This is achieved by touching the tactile screens these devices are built with The longer the player touches the jump button the higher the character jumps This game also includes a Toad Rally mode similar to the VS Boo mode of Super Mario Bros Deluxe in which players have to complete a level faster than a computer controlled Toad Success in this mode earns the player access to in game money to spend on customizing the Mushroom Kingdom map using mechanics similar to FarmVille This is the first Super Mario game that Princess Daisy is playable in and the first to feature a music track with vocals 50 51 52 2017 2021 Return to open ended exploration After having fallen out of favor by the mid 2000s open world collectathon 3D platformers such as Super Mario 64 Banjo Kazooie and Donkey Kong 64 had become less common 53 For example the 3D adventure game Banjo Kazooie Nuts amp Bolts 2008 explicitly mocked the perceived tedium of collecting large quantities of tokens 54 By the mid 2010s however 3D platformers were aiming to replicate such experiences including Yooka Laylee and A Hat in Time Super Mario Odyssey is a return to the open world sandbox 3D style of gameplay 55 56 57 with more open ended exploration like in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine 58 It was released in October 2017 for Nintendo Switch 59 Bowser s Fury is part of the 2021 re release of Super Mario 3D World on the Nintendo Switch It implements 3D open world free roaming gameplay in a similar fashion to Odyssey from which it includes many elements 60 61 2023 Super Mario Bros Wonder Super Mario Bros Wonder is an upcoming 2D sidescrolling Super Mario game announced on June 21 2023 for release on October 20 of the same year Playable characters include Mario Luigi Toad Princess Peach Princess Daisy and Yoshi When touching a Wonder Flower the player character experiences strange effects that involve the character and the world being altered Remakes and remasters Game System Year Original game s Super Mario All Stars Super Mario World Super NES 1993 1994 Super Mario Bros Super Mario Bros The Lost LevelsSuper Mario Bros 2Super Mario Bros 3Super Mario World d Super Mario Bros Deluxe Game Boy Color 1999 Super Mario Bros Super Mario Bros The Lost LevelsSuper Mario Advance Game Boy Advance 2001 2002 Super Mario Bros 2Mario Bros Super Mario World Super Mario Advance 2 Game Boy Advance 2001 Super Mario WorldMario Bros Yoshi s Island Super Mario Advance 3 Game Boy Advance 2002 Super Mario World 2 Yoshi s IslandMario Bros Super Mario Advance 4 Super Mario Bros 3 Game Boy Advance 2003 2004 Super Mario Bros 3Mario Bros Super Mario 64 DS Nintendo DS 2004 2005 Super Mario 64New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe Nintendo Switch 2019 New Super Mario Bros UNew Super Luigi USuper Mario 3D All Stars Nintendo Switch 2020 Super Mario 64Super Mario SunshineSuper Mario GalaxySuper Mario 3D World Bowser s Fury Nintendo Switch 2021 Super Mario 3D WorldReceptionSales and aggregate review scoresAs of December 31 2021 Game Year Units sold in millions GameRankings Metacritic out of 100 Super Mario Bros 1985 NES 40 23 62 GBC 10 55 63 GBA NES 86 64 GBC 92 65 GBA 80 66 NES GBC GBA 84 67 Super Mario Bros 2 1988 NES 7 46 63 GBA 5 57 68 NES 81 69 GBA 82 70 NES GBA 84 71 Super Mario Bros 3 1988 NES 17 28 63 GBA 5 43 68 NES 97 72 GBA 92 73 NES GBA 94 74 Super Mario Land 1989 18 14 63 77 75 Super Mario World 1990 SNES 20 61 76 GBA 5 69 63 SNES 94 77 GBA 92 78 SNES GBA 92 79 Super Mario Land 2 6 Golden Coins 1992 11 18 63 79 80 Super Mario World 2 Yoshi s Island 1990 SNES GBA SNES GBA SNES GBA Super Mario All Stars 1993 10 55 63 90 81 Super Mario 64 1996 N64 11 91 82 DS 11 06 83 N64 96 84 DS 86 85 N64 94 86 DS 85 87 Super Mario Sunshine 2002 6 28 63 91 88 92 89 New Super Mario Bros 2006 30 80 83 89 90 89 91 Super Mario Galaxy 2007 12 80 92 97 93 97 94 New Super Mario Bros Wii 2009 30 32 92 88 95 87 96 Super Mario Galaxy 2 2010 7 41 63 97 97 97 98 Super Mario 3D Land 2011 12 84 99 90 100 90 101 New Super Mario Bros 2 2012 13 39 99 78 102 78 103 New Super Mario Bros U 2012 Wii U 5 81 104 Switch 12 72 105 Wii U 84 106 Switch 81 107 Wii U 84 108 Switch 81 109 Super Mario 3D World 2013 Wii U 5 88 104 Switch 8 85 105 Wii U 92 110 Switch Wii U 93 111 Switch 89 112 Super Mario Maker 2015 Wii U 4 02 104 3DS 2 01 113 Wii U 89 114 3DS 72 115 Wii U 88 116 3DS 73 117 Super Mario Run 2016 76 118 Super Mario Odyssey 2017 23 02 119 97 120 97 121 Super Mario Maker 2 2019 7 15 122 88 123 Super Mario 3D All Stars 2020 9 01 122 82 124 The Super Mario series has seen tremendous critical acclaim from both critics and audiences The series was ranked as the best game franchise by IGN in 2006 125 In 1996 Next Generation ranked the series as number 5 on their Top 100 Games of All Time e additionally ranking Super Mario 64 at number 1 although stating the rule that series of games be confined to a single entry 126 In 1999 Next Generation listed the Mario series as number 3 on their Top 50 Games of All Time commenting that The depth of the game design was never matched in 2D and has yet to be equaled by a 3D action performer The gameplay is simply genius Shigeru Miyamoto wrote the book on platformers 127 Electronic Gaming Monthly attributed the series excellence to the developers tireless creativity and innovation pointing out that Sega s Sonic the Hedgehog series changed very little in its four installments on the Genesis The Mario series has changed significantly with each new game 128 The original Super Mario Bros was awarded the top spot on Electronic Gaming Monthly s greatest 200 games of their time list 129 and IGN s top 100 games of all time list twice in 2005 and 2007 130 Super Mario Bros popularized side scrolling video games and provided the basic concept and mechanics that persisted throughout the rest of the series Super Mario Bros sold 40 24 million copies making it the bestselling video game of the whole series 131 Various other video games of the series were ranked as the best within the series 132 133 77 Games included are Super Mario Bros 3 134 Super Mario World 135 and Super Mario 64 to name a few 136 137 Before Super Mario Odyssey Super Mario Galaxy has been for 10 years the best ranked game on GameRankings 138 93 Sales Super Mario is one of the best selling video game franchises having sold more than 380 million units worldwide as of 2021 update 139 The first seven Super Mario games including the first three Super Mario Bros titles the first two Super Mario Land titles and Super Mario World had sold 100 million units by March 1993 140 Games in the Super Mario series have had consistently strong sales ranking among the best selling video games of all time Super Mario Bros sold more than 50 million units worldwide sold across multiple platforms by 1996 141 The original NES version sold 40 23 million units and is the best selling NES game with its two sequels Super Mario Bros 3 18 million copies and Super Mario Bros 2 10 million copies ranking in second and third place respectively 82 Super Mario World is the best selling game for the SNES console selling 20 million copies Super Mario World is also the seventh bestselling game of all time Super Mario 64 sold the most copies for the Nintendo 64 11 million whereas Super Mario Sunshine is the second bestselling game 5 5 million on the GameCube second to Super Smash Bros Melee Super Mario Galaxy has sold 12 80 million units as of March 2020 update which was the bestselling 3D game in the series until 2019 and is the ninth bestselling game for the Wii 92 Its sequel Super Mario Galaxy 2 has 7 41 million units sold placing in twelfth Super Mario 3D World was the second bestselling game on the Wii U and along with its more popular Switch port has sold over 14 million copies combined making it the 2nd bestselling 3D Mario game 142 63 Super Mario Odyssey has 23 50 million units sold as of December 2021 making it the bestselling 3D game in the series to date and among the best selling games for the Nintendo Switch 119 New Super Mario Bros Wii has sold 30 32 million copies worldwide the fourth bestselling game on the Wii as well as one of the bestselling video games of all time 92 The Super Mario series also sold well on handheld consoles Super Mario Land has sold 18 14 million copies and is the fourth bestselling game for the Game Boy Its sequel Super Mario Land 2 6 Golden Coins sold 11 18 million copies placing sixth 143 New Super Mario Bros for the Nintendo DS sold 30 80 million units making it the bestselling game for the console and the bestselling portable entry For all console and handheld games that have not been bundled with a console Super Mario Bros 3 is the fourth bestselling game whereas New Super Mario Bros is fifth Super Mario Land is eleventh and Super Mario 64 is eighteenth In the United Kingdom Super Mario Bros is the most famous video game brand recognized by 91 of the UK adult population as of 2021 update 144 LegacyThis section is empty You can help by adding to it January 2023 See alsoLuigi s Mansion series A spin off of the series Captain Toad Treasure Tracker A spin off of the series Donkey Kong Country series Similar platform series Super Princess Peach A similar Nintendo platform game that role reverses the characters that are commonly used in the concept of the series Wario Land series A similar platform sub seriesNotes Japanese スーパーマリオ Hepburn Supa Mario Japanese スーパーマリオブラザーズ Hepburn Supa Mario Burazazu Japanese マリオ Not included in original version of All Stars The entry name is Mario series but the description as a side scrolling platformer makes it 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