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| - When it comes to gaming icons, one character stands above all the rest. No one, not even Master Chief, Samus, Link, Cloud, Sephiroth, Mega Man, or all the rest can match what Mario has done for the video game industry. Other characters and games have been good, but at the end of the day, no one can take away from the fact that Mario was the character who made video games famous in the first place. The very first Super Mario Brothers title helped sell well over 40 million Nintendo units. A TV show was made to hype Super Mario Brothers 2, and even though Mario 2 wasn't nearly as good as the original, Nintendo quickly learned from there mistake and began the marketing behemoth that was the hype of Super Mario Brothers 3. Super Mario 3, without question, was the single most hyped game of all t
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| - When it comes to gaming icons, one character stands above all the rest. No one, not even Master Chief, Samus, Link, Cloud, Sephiroth, Mega Man, or all the rest can match what Mario has done for the video game industry. Other characters and games have been good, but at the end of the day, no one can take away from the fact that Mario was the character who made video games famous in the first place. The very first Super Mario Brothers title helped sell well over 40 million Nintendo units. A TV show was made to hype Super Mario Brothers 2, and even though Mario 2 wasn't nearly as good as the original, Nintendo quickly learned from there mistake and began the marketing behemoth that was the hype of Super Mario Brothers 3. Super Mario 3, without question, was the single most hyped game of all time, and thankfully, the game delivered. Mario 3 wound up selling nearly 20 million copies, and if Mario's legend wasn't cemented by that point, then the success of Mario 3 put him over the top. But he wasn't done there. Super Mario World helped launch what may very well go down as the single greatest gaming system of all time, the Super Nintendo. Once again, massive hype surrounded Mario's next title. Once again, he delivered. The same can be said of Super Mario 64 as well. The Nintendo 64 was another hyped system, and thanks to another massively hyped game starring Mario, the system was successful. Super Mario 64 wasn't released with the Nintendo 64, but the game had almost as many sales as the system itself, which is absolutely unheard of. And that still doesn't tell the entire story. Mario is Nintendo's main man for a reason. He has appeared in well over 100 games spanning across multiple systems, and when you add the total sales from all of these games, from Mario Party to Smash Brothers, from Mario Golf to Mario Tennis, from Mario is Missing to Mario Kart, from Mario's day as Jumpman to one of the best games of all time in Mario 3, the total sales of games in which Mario has appeared in amounts to well over, well over, 300 million games. Three. Hundred. Million. Games. Mario has appeared in TV shows, appeared in movies, has had songs made about him, and is the godfather of video games. Mario made video games famous, and when it comes down to it, the original Super Mario Brothers is by far the most influential game ever made. Other games have set the trends for their respective genres, but the original Mario title set the trend for video games in and of themselves. To put this in perspective, Sonic the Hedgehog is a character specifically designed to be a cooler version of Mario, and Sega was a company that was out to dethrone Nintendo from being the king of the video games industry. Ten years later, and Sega is now a third party developer for Nintendo. Mario may not be the strongest character on GameFAQs, but make no mistake about Mario as a pop culture icon. Through all these years, Mario has remained as the single most recognizable figure in gaming. Other characters, including Sonic, Lara Croft, and Crash Bandicoot have tried dethroning Mario from this position, but Mario still finds a way to outlast them all. When it comes to video games, no matter what happens, Mario himself is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, and it would take an act of God for any other gaming character to take the position that Mario currently has away from him.
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