In addition to presenting the goal of saving Pauline, the game gives the player a score. Donkey Kong is an early example of the platform genre. Miyamoto named the game Donkey Kong, and its main protagonist "Jumpman". Miyamoto came up with the idea of a game in which the playable character has to make his way through an obstacle course consisting of sloped platforms, ladders and rolling barrels.
It is the best-selling video game franchise of all time, with more than 826 million copies of games sold, including more than 385 million for the Super Mario games alone.Ī replica of a Donkey Kong arcade cabinetĪfter the commercial failure of Radar Scope, Nintendo's company president referred to Shigeru Miyamoto to create an arcade game to save the company. The Mario series is one of gaming's most successful and renowned franchises, with many of its games, in particular within the Super Mario subseries, being considered to be some of the greatest video games ever made.
Donkey Kong, and Paper Mario several characters introduced in the Mario franchise, such as Donkey Kong, Wario, Yoshi and Luigi sparked successful franchises of their own.
The franchise has spawned over 200 games of various genres and several sub-series, including Mario Golf, Mario Kart, Mario Party, Mario Tennis, Mario vs. The flagship Mario subseries is the Super Mario series of platform games started with 1985's Super Mario Bros., which mostly follows Mario's adventures in the fictional world of the Mushroom Kingdom and typically rely on Mario's jumping ability to allow him to progress through levels. Most Mario games have been released exclusively for Nintendo's various video game consoles and handhelds, from the third generation onward. The Mario games have been developed by a variety of developers including Nintendo, Hudson Soft, and AlphaDream. The series' first installment was 1983's Mario Bros., although Mario had made his first appearance in 1981's Donkey Kong, and had already been featured in several games of the Donkey Kong and Game & Watch series. It is primarily a video game franchise, but has extended to other forms of media, including television series, comic books, a 1993 feature film, an upcoming 2023 animated film and theme park attractions. Mario is a media franchise, produced and published by video game company Nintendo, created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and starring the titular Italian plumber Mario.
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