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Over the course of the North American video game industry recession that lasted from 1983 to 1985, Nintendo released the Famicom (the Western equivalent of which was the NES), which eventually found success as a hardware platform in its own right. Miyamoto began development of a successor to ''Mario Bros.'' for the console, and the game went through many ideas before settling as a side-scrolling platformer with a very clearly defined diversity to its gameplay elements, onscreen characters, and setting. The 1985 release of ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Bros.}}'' is labeled by many as the single most influential video game involved in not just the popularization of the side-scrolling game genre, but the direction the video game industry itself would take following the 1983 crash, and is often described as the game that began the modern era of video games. Almost all of the game's aspects have been praised on separate occasions; the precise controls, creative power-up system, and well-tuned speed and momentum mechanics came into play against a varied set of level-design obstacles and distinctive enemies, and Mario's whimsical quest through his newly established setting, the [[Mushroom Kingdom]], to rescue his love interest [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] from the dragon turtle-like [[Bowser]] was timeless. The game became the best-selling title in the history of the industry, a record it held for over twenty years.

The ''Super Mario'' franchise indisputably became Nintendo's foremost property immediately, and Mario himself earned a permanent position as the company's mascot. It became a custom to release a steady stream of ''Mario''-related titles for each and every Nintendo console and handheld launched in the company's history, and as of 2013, over 200 games featuring ''Mario'' characters in some way, shape or form have been released. While many entries into the series enjoyed a high level of success, none of the subsequent ''Mario'' games necessarily had anywhere near as much influence on video game genres as ''Super Mario Bros.'' itself had, but there is one clear exception: ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario 64}}'' was the core platform-based series' inaugural transition into the third dimension, released in the Americas in September 1996, with a free-roaming, non-linear design and an overarching collection aspect. A launch title for the Nintendo 64, it became the system's best-selling game and is given much of the credit for allowing the Nintendo 64 to attain the success that it had. The game set many precedents for the 3D platformer genre that would forever reappear in 3D platformers to follow, including player-character movement precisely dictated by the controller's analog joystick, a hub-based level design where each level accessible from the hub was a self-contained area containing a large variety of objectives to complete, and the first-ever "free" camera in a game with 3D environments, where the camera could be controlled independently of the character and was not rigidly fixed either to the character's position or a specific point in the level itself. Numerous other ''Mario'' platformers, particularly ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Bros. 3}}'', ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario World}}'', ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Galaxy}}'' and ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Odyssey}}'', are also frequently cited as some of the greatest games ever made; rather than kickstarting their respective genres as ''Super Mario Bros.'' and ''Super Mario 64'' did, they instead garnered high praise for innovating on and refining the formulas set by the first 2D and 3D installments.

The ''Super Mario'' franchise indisputably became Nintendo's foremost property immediately, and Mario himself earned a permanent position as the company's mascot. It became a custom to release a steady stream of ''Mario''-related titles for each and every Nintendo console and handheld launched in the company's history, and as of 2013, over 200 games featuring ''Mario'' characters in some way, shape or form have been released. While many entries into the series enjoyed a high level of success, none of the subsequent ''Mario'' games necessarily had anywhere near as much influence on video game genres as ''Super Mario Bros.'' itself had, but there is one clear exception: ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario 64}}'' was the core platform-based series' inaugural transition into the third dimension, released in the Americas in September 1996, with a free-roaming, non-linear design and an overarching collection aspect. A launch title for the Nintendo 64, it became the system's best-selling game and is given much of the credit for allowing the Nintendo 64 to attain the success that it had. The game set many precedents for the 3D platformer genre that would forever reappear in 3D platformers to follow, including player-character movement precisely dictated by the controller's analog joystick, a hub-based level design where each level accessible from the hub was a self-contained area containing a large variety of objectives to complete, and the first-ever "free" camera in a game with 3D environments, where the camera could be controlled independently of the character and was not rigidly fixed either to the character's position or a specific point in the level itself. Numerous other ''Mario'' platformers, particularly ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Bros. 3}}'', ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario World}}'', ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Galaxy}}'' and ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Odyssey}}'', are also frequently cited as some of the greatest games ever made; rather than kickstarting their respective genres as ''Super Mario Bros.'' and ''Super Mario 64'' did, they instead garnered high praise for innovating on and refining the formulas set by the first 2D and 3D installments. Mario has appeared in other media too like cartoons, an odd movie that will get an animated sequel, an upcoming theme park app, and an an upcoming Lego game.

The ''Mario'' setting itself most often stars {{s|mariowiki|Mario}}, a free-spirited and heroic man with strong jumping abilities who is, by this point at least, a celebrity in the colorful and cartoon-like {{s|mariowiki|Mushroom Kingdom}}. Mario is often accompanied by his taller and more cowardly brother {{s|mariowiki|Luigi}}, who is occasionally mocked in-universe for being less famous than his sibling, but also goes on a few adventures of his own. His love interest and the ruler of the kingdom, [[mariowiki:Princess Peach|Princess "Peach" Toadstool]], regularly gets taken away by Mario's trouble-making arch-nemesis, {{s|mariowiki|Bowser}}, who is depicted as a menacing figure and/or a comedic one depending on the game. The most common setup for a ''Mario'' game is that Mario goes on an obstacle-laden quest to defeat Bowser and save Peach. ''Mario'' games rarely devote focus to lore or characterization; Mario, his world, and the established personalities that are his numerous allies and enemies represent Nintendo's primary "tileset" for creating colorful games of various genres that prioritize the quality of the gameplay itself, and ''Mario'' games sometimes satirize some conventions in video games. The ''Mario'' franchise is so big, and its side characters so thoroughly established, that several of these characters are the stars of their own semi-regular releases: [[Donkey Kong]] has starred alongside a simian supporting cast of his own in [[Donkey Kong (universe)|various games]] that, for a time, were primarily handled by British company Rareware; a pet-like dinosaur companion for Mario named [[Yoshi]] was introduced in the SNES launch title ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario World}}'', and has been the focus of [[Yoshi (universe)|several of his own games]]; and a mischievous anti-hero equivalent to Mario who debuted in ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins}}'' for the Game Boy, [[Wario]], has starred in both his own platformers and [[Wario (universe)|a series of party games]] that deliver a more outward parody of video game trends.

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 Over the course of the North American video game industry recession that lasted from 1983 to 1985, Nintendo released the Famicom (the Western equivalent of which was the NES), which eventually found success as a hardware platform in its own right. Miyamoto began development of a successor to ''Mario Bros.'' for the console, and the game went through many ideas before settling as a side-scrolling platformer with a very clearly defined diversity to its gameplay elements, onscreen characters, and setting. The 1985 release of ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Bros.}}'' is labeled by many as the single most influential video game involved in not just the popularization of the side-scrolling game genre, but the direction the video game industry itself would take following the 1983 crash, and is often described as the game that began the modern era of video games. Almost all of the game's aspects have been praised on separate occasions; the precise controls, creative power-up system, and well-tuned speed and momentum mechanics came into play against a varied set of level-design obstacles and distinctive enemies, and Mario's whimsical quest through his newly established setting, the [[Mushroom Kingdom]], to rescue his love interest [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] from the dragon turtle-like [[Bowser]] was timeless. The game became the best-selling title in the history of the industry, a record it held for over twenty years.
-The ''Super Mario'' franchise indisputably became Nintendo's foremost property immediately, and Mario himself earned a permanent position as the company's mascot. It became a custom to release a steady stream of ''Mario''-related titles for each and every Nintendo console and handheld launched in the company's history, and as of 2013, over 200 games featuring ''Mario'' characters in some way, shape or form have been released. While many entries into the series enjoyed a high level of success, none of the subsequent ''Mario'' games necessarily had anywhere near as much influence on video game genres as ''Super Mario Bros.'' itself had, but there is one clear exception: ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario 64}}'' was the core platform-based series' inaugural transition into the third dimension, released in the Americas in September 1996, with a free-roaming, non-linear design and an overarching collection aspect. A launch title for the Nintendo 64, it became the system's best-selling game and is given much of the credit for allowing the Nintendo 64 to attain the success that it had. The game set many precedents for the 3D platformer genre that would forever reappear in 3D platformers to follow, including player-character movement precisely dictated by the controller's analog joystick, a hub-based level design where each level accessible from the hub was a self-contained area containing a large variety of objectives to complete, and the first-ever "free" camera in a game with 3D environments, where the camera could be controlled independently of the character and was not rigidly fixed either to the character's position or a specific point in the level itself. Numerous other ''Mario'' platformers, particularly ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Bros. 3}}'', ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario World}}'',  ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Galaxy}}'' and ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Odyssey}}'', are also frequently cited as some of the greatest games ever made; rather than kickstarting their respective genres as ''Super Mario Bros.'' and ''Super Mario 64'' did, they instead garnered high praise for innovating on and refining the formulas set by the first 2D and 3D installments.
+The ''Super Mario'' franchise indisputably became Nintendo's foremost property immediately, and Mario himself earned a permanent position as the company's mascot. It became a custom to release a steady stream of ''Mario''-related titles for each and every Nintendo console and handheld launched in the company's history, and as of 2013, over 200 games featuring ''Mario'' characters in some way, shape or form have been released. While many entries into the series enjoyed a high level of success, none of the subsequent ''Mario'' games necessarily had anywhere near as much influence on video game genres as ''Super Mario Bros.'' itself had, but there is one clear exception: ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario 64}}'' was the core platform-based series' inaugural transition into the third dimension, released in the Americas in September 1996, with a free-roaming, non-linear design and an overarching collection aspect. A launch title for the Nintendo 64, it became the system's best-selling game and is given much of the credit for allowing the Nintendo 64 to attain the success that it had. The game set many precedents for the 3D platformer genre that would forever reappear in 3D platformers to follow, including player-character movement precisely dictated by the controller's analog joystick, a hub-based level design where each level accessible from the hub was a self-contained area containing a large variety of objectives to complete, and the first-ever "free" camera in a game with 3D environments, where the camera could be controlled independently of the character and was not rigidly fixed either to the character's position or a specific point in the level itself. Numerous other ''Mario'' platformers, particularly ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Bros. 3}}'', ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario World}}'',  ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Galaxy}}'' and ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Odyssey}}'', are also frequently cited as some of the greatest games ever made; rather than kickstarting their respective genres as ''Super Mario Bros.'' and ''Super Mario 64'' did, they instead garnered high praise for innovating on and refining the formulas set by the first 2D and 3D installments. Mario has appeared in other media too like cartoons, an odd movie that will get an animated sequel, an upcoming theme park app, and an an upcoming Lego game.
 The ''Mario'' setting itself most often stars {{s|mariowiki|Mario}}, a free-spirited and heroic man with strong jumping abilities who is, by this point at least, a celebrity in the colorful and cartoon-like {{s|mariowiki|Mushroom Kingdom}}. Mario is often accompanied by his taller and more cowardly brother {{s|mariowiki|Luigi}}, who is occasionally mocked in-universe for being less famous than his sibling, but also goes on a few adventures of his own. His love interest and the ruler of the kingdom, [[mariowiki:Princess Peach|Princess "Peach" Toadstool]], regularly gets taken away by Mario's trouble-making arch-nemesis, {{s|mariowiki|Bowser}}, who is depicted as a menacing figure and/or a comedic one depending on the game. The most common setup for a ''Mario'' game is that Mario goes on an obstacle-laden quest to defeat Bowser and save Peach. ''Mario'' games rarely devote focus to lore or characterization; Mario, his world, and the established personalities that are his numerous allies and enemies represent Nintendo's primary "tileset" for creating colorful games of various genres that prioritize the quality of the gameplay itself, and ''Mario'' games sometimes satirize some conventions in video games. The ''Mario'' franchise is so big, and its side characters so thoroughly established, that several of these characters are the stars of their own semi-regular releases: [[Donkey Kong]] has starred alongside a simian supporting cast of his own in [[Donkey Kong (universe)|various games]] that, for a time, were primarily handled by British company Rareware; a pet-like dinosaur companion for Mario named [[Yoshi]] was introduced in the SNES launch title ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario World}}'', and has been the focus of [[Yoshi (universe)|several of his own games]]; and a mischievous anti-hero equivalent to Mario who debuted in ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins}}'' for the Game Boy, [[Wario]], has starred in both his own platformers and [[Wario (universe)|a series of party games]] that deliver a more outward parody of video game trends.