List of Mario role-playing games
| Mario role-playing games | |
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| Genres | Role-playing game |
| Developers | Square, Intelligent Systems, AlphaDream |
| Publishers | Nintendo |
The Mario franchise has inspired a variety of Mario role-playing games (RPG) to be released on multiple Nintendo video game consoles. All the games feature Mario as the main protagonist, who is often accompanied by one or more playable characters, including existing Mario characters and original characters introduced in each game.
The first game to introduce RPG elements into the Mario franchise was Super Mario RPG, developed by Square and released in 1996 for the Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game does not have a direct sequel. Considered to be its thematic and spiritual sequels, two successive RPG-themed Mario series, the Paper Mario series and the Mario & Luigi series, followed conventions established in the original. The Paper Mario games were developed by Intelligent Systems, a subsidiary of Nintendo, and are renowned for their distinctive visual style, which consists of two-dimensional paper cutout characters moving about in three-dimensional papercraft worlds. The Mario & Luigi games were developed by AlphaDream, another subsidiary of Nintendo, all of which appeared solely on handheld consoles. The latest entries in each series are the Nintendo 3DS games Paper Mario: Sticker Star and Mario & Luigi: Dream Team.
Standalone
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Release years by system: 1996 – Super Famicom/SNES 2008 – Wii Virtual Console |
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Paper Mario series
| Title | Details |
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Original release date(s): JP August 11, 2000 NA February 5, 2001 PAL October 5, 2001 |
Release years by system: 2000 – Nintendo 64 2007 – Wii Virtual Console 2015 – Wii U Virtual Console |
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Original release date(s): JP July 22, 2004 NA October 11, 2004 EU November 12, 2004 AUS November 18, 2004 |
Release years by system: 2004 – GameCube |
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Original release date(s): NA April 9, 2007 JP April 19, 2007 EU September 14, 2007 AUS September 20, 2007 |
Release years by system: 2007 – Wii |
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Original release date(s): NA November 11, 2012 JP December 6, 2012 EU December 7, 2012 |
Release years by system: 2012 – Nintendo 3DS |
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Mario & Luigi series
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Release years by system: 2003 – Game Boy Advance 2014 – Wii U Virtual Console |
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Release years by system: 2005 – Nintendo DS |
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Original release date(s): JP February 11, 2009 NA September 14, 2009 EU October 6, 2009 AUS October 22, 2009 |
Release years by system: 2009 – Nintendo DS |
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Original release date(s): EU July 12, 2013 AUS July 13, 2013 JP July 18, 2013 NA August 11, 2013 |
Release years by system: 2013 – Nintendo 3DS |
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