Mario Games : Sonic Vitamins
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Mario a popular video game character created by the company Nintendo, and he is also the hero of numerous video games. He is Nintendo’s mascot[1] and the protagonist of the company’s most successful video game series. The character, except for some games, only appears on Nintendo’s consoles. With over 193 million units sold, Mario is not only Nintendo’s most successful franchise, but the most successful video game series of all time.[2] Furthermore, Mario is considered the most well-known video game character in the world.[3] In 2005, he was honored with a star on the Walk of Game.It is pictured as a somewhat short, pudgy, Italian, mustachioed plumber with a blue pair of overalls, red shirt, and red garrison cap with an ‘M’ emblem on it. His typical catchphrases are “Mamma mia!” and “It’s a-me, Mario!”
HistoryIt first answered to the name of “Jumpman” in the arcade game Donkey Kong. He first recieved the name of “Mario” in Mario Bros.
Mario Bros.
After
Is this Essay helpful? Join OPPapers to read more and access more than 460,000 just like it!get better gradeshis appearance in Donkey Kong Junior, Mario appeared again in 1983 in Mario Bros., Mario’s first appearance as the hero. After a colleague cited that Mario looked more like a plumber than a carpenter, Miyamoto changed his occupation accordingly. In this game, which was originally called Pipe Jump, Mario and his brother Luigi must exterminate Koopas and other pests that entered from the underground pipes, often by flipping them over. Although the game’s success steadily declined, it was not the brothers’ last appearance.
PlatformersIt was the first platformer.
Super Mario Bros.
Mario and Luigi now live in the Mushroom Kingdom where they must rescue Princess Peach from the evil clutches of the Koopa Bowser. The player controls Mario through laterally-scrolling levels the size of several screens, jumping over abysses and defeating enemies in order to reach the end of the level. By hitting certain blocks, power-ups are released. Super Mario Bros. is substantially more…
This games of other genres include various Game & Watch games; Mario Pinball Land, a pinball game for the Game Boy Advance;[39] various educational games; and the Dr. Mario puzzle games, (with Dr. Mario itself first released in 1990). In these games, Dr. Mario throws vitamins that the player must align to destroy the viruses that populate the playing field.[40] 1996’s Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System is the first Mario role-playing game; six games have followed, including three in the Paper Mario series (Paper Mario for the Nintendo 64, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for the Nintendo GameCube, and Super Paper Mario for the Wii) and three in the Mario & Luigi series (Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga for the Game Boy Advance and Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time and Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story for the Nintendo DS).
Several other sub-series of it’s video games have been released. The Mario Kart franchise began with Super Mario Kart for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and is currently the most successful and longest-running kart-racing franchise.Other Mario sports games include the Camelot-developed series Mario Golf and Mario Tennis, and, respectively, the baseball and soccer games Mario Superstar Baseball and Super Mario Strikers. In 1999, the Hudson-developed Mario Party series began on the Nintendo 64. The games revolve around a set of mini-games and are playable with up to four players. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (for Nintendo DS and Wii) is a collection of twenty-four events based on the Olympic Games. This was followed in 2009 by Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games on both systems, based on the 2010 Winter Olympics. Another game was released on Wii in 2011 called “Mario Sports Mix”.