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It's a me Mario!
Video Games
To date, nearly 275 million copies of games featuring Me have been sold,[1] making it by far the best-selling video game franchise of all time.
My's first video game role was as the hero in 1981's
Overall, Mario games have sold approximately 275 million copies worldwide, with Super Mario Bros. 3 holding the record for most copies of a non pack-in video game sold, with over 18 million copies sold. Mario and his friends also appeared in some of the later Game & Watch games.
Mario has explored just about every genre of video game. Aside from action platformers, the plucky plumber has also starred in puzzle games, racing games, sports games, fighting games, role-playing games, educational games etc.
Future announced Mario titles include the following:
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis for Nintendo DS
- Super Paper Mario for Disputed, But Probably Wii
- Mario Strikers Charged for Wii
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Wii
- Super Mario Galaxy for Wii
Appearances on non-Nintendo platforms
Nintendo holds the copyright to Mario in many nations and retained these rights for their own use with few exceptions. However, Mario appeared in quite a few educational PC titles in the
There are many free
Special cameo appearances
In the earlier days of the
In Pinball, Mario appears in a "bonus stage," holding up a platform on which Pauline is to be caught. The platform is also used in game play; the player's ball bounces off its surface, striking a series of numbered lamps that cause the floor underneath Pauline's lofty holding cage to break, which will (presumably) cause her to fall to safety. In the stage, the player controls Mario and can only move left or right.
Mario made brief appearances in three games from Nintendo's other popular franchise, the
Mario also had a minor appearance in the game Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest when Diddy is ranked among the Nintendo icons based on the amount of Donkey Kong coins he possesses. Link from The Legend of Zelda and Yoshi also appear.
In 1999, Mario was included in the cast for Nintendo's popular fighting game,
In
In the
Mario has also made a cameo appearance in the Nintendo DS game Nintendogs. In this game, his hat can be unlocked, as well as a toy Mario in a radio-controlled kart. The latter is only unlockable on the Dachshund & Friends version.
In the game
In 1080° Avalanche, Mario appeared on the bottom of a snowboard and as an ice sculpture.
In the game Pilotwings 64, Mario's face can be seen with those of the Presidents on Mt. Rushmore. If his face is shot, it turns into Wario's face.
In Banjo-Tooie, if you talk to Loggo the toilet in Grunty Industries a second time before unclogging him, Kazooie will say, "Then call a plumber. I hear Mario's free at the moment." Loggo will respond "I don't think he actually does that kind of work anymore..."
In
Mario makes a secret appearance in Animal Crossing, in which he can be unlocked as a statue in your room. Along with this is a silver Luigi statue, a question mark block and a pipe. They are extremely rare - sometimes they can only be unlocked in a raffle at Nook's store, and sometimes by telling Nook a secret code that can be found at many cheat sites.
Mainstream Success
Since his creation, Mario has established himself as a
Mario in popular culture
- Mario's popularity has been parodied and/or referenced in many television shows other than his own. For example, he appears in two episodes of The Simpsons: in "Marge Be Not Proud", he, along with Luigi, Sonic, and Donkey Kong try to convince Bart to steal a video game; and in "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass", Mario is an Italian tourist who, when visiting Homer (famous after an embarrassing video on the Internet), gets trash cans thrown at him - just like Donkey Kong, but is defeated by Homer when he gets a hammer from the treehouse. He is also parodied in the Futurama episode "Anthology of Interest II", when Fry asks the What-If Machine what would life be like as a video game. In the sequence that follows, Mario is the Italian ambassador at the United Nations.
- In a crossover spoof on Attack of the Show, Mario and Luigi are portrayed in a The Sopranos-type story.
- Action figures of Mario, Luigi, and Wario are also shown taking part in a Fast and the Furious-meets-Cannonball Run parody on an early episode of Robot Chicken.
- In an episode of The Sopranos, A.J. is seen playing Mario Kart 64.
- In the cartoon Megas XLR, episode 18 "Thanksgiving Throwdown", parodies of Mario and Luigi appear, known as "The Super Fabio Brothers". The Fabio brothers attack using wrenches and their famed jumping ability.
- The 1989 Fred Savage film The Wizard featured characters playing the yet-to-be-released Super Mario Bros. 3 in a video game tournament. Many promotional ads for the movie featured footage from the climatic scene as cross-advertising for the title.
- In Ghostbusters II, Louis Tully asks Janine if she wants to play Super Mario Bros.
- Easter Egg called "Super Kingio Bros." The game, however, is unwinnable because the King of Town is too fat to jump over the first enemy encountered. Fittingly, the Homestar Runner cartoon series was first animated with Mario Paint.
- Parodies of the Super Mario Bros. called the Marxio Brothers. were minor villains in Sonic the Comic. The Marxios were electricians who came from another planet (Marxio World), they were extremely incompetent and had a failed (fictional) video-game series based off them.
- Sound effects from Mario games commonly pop up in modern animated children's cartoons (mostly those produced by The Walt Disney Company), usually in scenes that are set in an arcade. Among the shows that have used Mario sound effects:
- American Dragon: Jake Long
- Teacher's Pet
- Teamo Supremo
- The Weekenders
- Kim Possible
- Mucha Lucha!
- Dave the Barbarian
- Lloyd in Space
- The Nanny (animated Christmas special)
My best friend will kick your butt!
Segata Sanshiro (せがた三四郎 Segata Sanshirō) was a fictional character and parody of Sugata Sanshirō, a legendary judo fighter. He appeared in two dozen commercials by SEGA to advertise the Sega Saturn in Japan between 1997 and 1998. The character is played by actor Fujioka Hiroshi, who is also a martial artist.
Sanshiro was a Judo master that tracked down and beat up people who were not playing the Sega Saturn. His name sounds similar to the phrase "Sega Saturn shiro!" meaning roughly "You must play Sega Saturn!"
Sanshiro lived as a hermit high on a mountain, devoting his life to intensive Sega Saturn training. He trained physically by carrying around a giant Sega Saturn and punching a giant controller, and mentally by breaking piles of bricks with his head. But he would also frequently visit the city to seek out people who were not playing the Sega Saturn, and harshly teach them a lesson. In one commercial he barges into a nightclub and beats up everyone inside; in another, he beats up three youths who irresponsibly go outside to play baseball instead of playing video games and in another he attempts to throw down several zombies in a parking lot to not much success (He is shown to be ok in the next advert though). Sanshiro was a serious man with a firm sense of duty, and he believed that playing video games was the most valuable activity in life.
The character became very well known in Japan, and helped make the Saturn successful in that country.
When the Saturn was phased out and the Sega Dreamcast released, Sanshiro's end came in the form of a commercial involving a missile directed at the Tokyo headquarters of SEGA. Although the commercial leaves the crazed launcher's identity ambiguous, many gamers assume it to be Sony because of its dominant share of the video game market at the time. Sanshiro heroically jumped onto the missile, deflected it into the atmosphere, and was killed in the subsequent explosion. The voiceover said that "Segata Sanshiro will live on in your hearts", followed by a display of the game Segata Sanshirō Shinkenyūgi, the only game with Segata playing a major role. It is said this game is the last one produced for the aged Saturn console, to be followed by the Sega Dreamcast.
He is also referenced in the Japanese version of Virtua Fighter 4, where one of the AI profiles for Akira Yuki is named Segata.
Segata Sanshiro also has a cameo appearance in Rent-a-Hero No.1, a Japanese release for the Dreamcast and Xbox.
Translated theme song lyrics The character was so popular that a theme song and music video were released. This is an approximate English translation of the lyrics meant to communicate the spirit of the song.
Segasaturn Shiro! by Segata Sanshiro
The solitary man who devoted his soul to the way of games Today, he comes again He will punish those who do not play seriously Their battered bodies will never forget!
[chorus] Segata Sanshiro, Segata Sanshiro! Sega Saturn... shiro!
They play tennis, sing karaoke, flirt around in clubs... Are there not more serious tasks to be done? Those who do not play maturely He questions them deep inside their hearts
Segata Sanshiro, Segata Sanshiro! Sega Saturn... shiro!
(voice of Segata) Youngsters... is there something in your life you are completely devoted to? Something you sink into so deep you put your life on the line? You must play Sega Saturn! Play... until your fingers break! Until your fingers break!
Even if they chase after sex, that petty pleasure Their soul will remain hollow Those who do not immerse themselves to the extreme in gaming Will find their bodies beaten harshly!
Segata Sanshiro, Segata Sanshiro! Sega Saturn... shiro!
The white clouds floating on the great blue sky And the boiling red bloodshed in fierce gaming Those who give up halfway through Their battered bodies will never forget!
Segata Sanshiro, Segata Sanshiro! Sega Saturn... shiro! Segata Sanshiro, Segata Sanshiro! Sega Saturn... shiro!
And this dude! Crash Bandicoot (クラッシュ バンディュー, Kurasshu Bandikū?), or simply Crash, is a popular video game character created by Naughty Dog, an anthropomorphic bandicoot who stars in a video game franchise of the same name. Originally a straightforward platformer for the PlayStation, it has since expanded to the Game Boy Advance, GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox with various spin-off games in different genres.
So I am the best!
- ^ David Low (2005). "Nintendo reveal sales figures". Australia's PAL Gaming Network. Retrieved February 12.
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