Mario Fargo Research Paper

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The mario franchise is owned by nintendo. The japanese game designer is Shigeru Miyamoto. The first game one of the mario franchise is donkey kong and the date the game was made is july, 9, 1981 (www.theguardian.com 2018). Mario is a italian plumber who is one of the most known characters in the world. Mario games have started out with donkey kong and the newest game of mario odyssey(www.economist.com 2018). The mario games sold 240 million copies of games and the franchise only has near 20 games. In december the mario franchise got 70 million dollars. Mario games gotten over 25 billion dollars over all (https://kotaku.com 2018) Mario games has other characters like mario's brother luigi peach,yoshi,bowser and toad. The mario
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Games like super smash bros have characters like link,fox,samus and kirby. Other games they appear in is with another game franchise is with sonic the hedgehog . The game is mario and sonic at the olympics(www.mariowiki.com). The latest game of the Mario franchise is super Mario odyssey which released on the Nintendo switch and was a game a lot of people were playing. A popular Mario games series is Mario kart(www.nintendo.com). The newest Mario kart game was Mario kart 8 deluxe and the game includes characters from the game splatoon. The Mario franchise has been going on for 25 years (www.mariowiki.com). The creator of Mario was born in the year of 1952. The original donkey Kong game has sold over over 350 million copies. The Mario franchise is not just games there is also a movie (www.theguardian.com 2018). The movie is called Super Mario Bros with Bob Hoskins as mario and John Leguizamo as Luigi and the movie was made in May 28, 1994. Shigeru miyamoto does not just make the mario games he also made the game the game the legend of Zelda (www.theguardian.com 2018). In the first game of donkey Kong Mario was not called Mario he was called jumpman. Some of the best mario games was the …show more content…
Mario is usually not mario in the game dr.mario released on nes 1990 mario had to drop medicine to eliminate the viruses and the name was dr.mario. The first mario kart game was called super mario kart which released on a super nes in 1992. This was one of the best mario games of all time which sold 3.82 million copies (www.mariowiki.com 2018). Mario is missing a game that appeared on super nes in 1992. It is where mario was not the main character luigi was the main character in the game. Super mario 64 which released on the nintendo 64 in 1996 was a huge evolution for mario and the franchise (www.mariowiki.com 2018). The first mario party game was released on nintendo 64 in 1998. In total the game had 56 minigames and the game was only one player. super mario galaxy was the first mario game to appear on the wii in 2007.in the newest game of super mario odyssey mario could threw his hat and he will morph into that item (www.mariowiki.com 2018). If he threw the hat a billet bill he could be the bullet bill.when turning in the items that you throw your hat at you could past the obstacles you need to. The game was released on the switch and a lot of people like to play the game.ever since october in 2017 the game super mario odyssey has made 2.6 million dollars aking the game the fastest selling game in the united states(www.mariowiki.com 2018).super smash bros was made in 1999 on the nintendo 64. The game was worldwide so

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