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Can you name the Mario Games (U.S. Releases)*?

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This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Phil Sandifer
*Mario is either in the title of the game or a playable character
*Remakes and compilations not included

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Year	Game	System
1981		Arcade
1983		Arcade
1983		G&W
1983		G&W
1985		NES
1985		NES
1986		NES (Japan)
1988		NES
1989		GB
1990		NES/GB
1990		NES
1991		SNES
1991		MS-DOS
1991		MS-DOS
1991		NES
1991		G&W
1992		NES
1992		SNES
1992		SNES
1992		GB
1992		MS-DOS
1992		MS-DOS
1993		SNES
1993		SNES
1993		SNES
1993		SNES
1993		NES/SNES/GB
1994		CD-i
1995		Virtual Boy

Year	Game	System
1995		Virtual Boy
1995		Game Boy
1995		Game Boy
1995		SNES
1996		SNES
1996		Nintendo 64
1997		Nintendo 64
1999		GB Color/N64
1999		Nintendo 64
1999		Nintendo 64
2000		Nintendo 64
2000		Nintendo 64
2001		Nintendo 64
2001		Nintendo 64
2001		GB Advance
2001		Gamecube
2002		Gamecube
2002		Gamecube
2003		Gamecube
2003		Gamecube
2003		Gamecube
2003		GB Advance
2004		Gamecube
2004		Gamecube
2004		Gamecube
2004		GB Advance
2004		GB Advance
2004		GB Advance
2005		Gamecube

Year	Game	System
2005		Gamecube
2005		Gamecube
2005		Gamecube
2005		GB Advance
2005		GB Advance
2005		Nintendo DS
2005		Nintendo DS
2005		Nintendo DS
2005		Arcade
2006		Nintendo DS
2006		Nintendo DS
2006		Nintendo DS
2006		Nintendo DS
2007		Wii
2007		Wii
2007		Wii
2007		Wii
2007		Wii
2007		Nintendo DS
2007		Arcade
2008		Wii
2008		Wii
2008		Wii
2009		Nintendo DS
2009		Nintendo DS
2009		Nintendo DS
2009		DS/Wii

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There are 90 comments for this game.
(Warning: comments may contain spoilers)

	gopaladins:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 21:22 GMT	4 points
	i own "mario is missing!" on SNES. only listed as MS-DOS here.

	gopaladins:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 21:27 GMT	3 points
	does mario not make an appearance in luigi's haunted mansion?

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 21:31 GMT	7 points
	gopaladins - I listed first system of release in all cases. And though Mario makes an appearance in Luigi's Mansion, he makes an appearance in numerous games. But he is not playable in Luigi's Mansion, nor is he in the title of the game, which was the criterion I used for including games on the list.

	taylor:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 21:43 GMT	-1 points
	maybe i'm just not nerdy enough (that's hard to believe) but who knew there were 90 versions of mario party or mario kart...

	meltingbridge:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 21:46 GMT	1 point
	i'm just amazed at the variety of games...a humble plumber playing golf, tennis, and pinball

	albagobragh:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 21:46 GMT	3 points
	Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games should work for Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 21:49 GMT	2 points
	redalert - I just tried it and it accepted it. Possible they already fixed it with their ninja-like capabilities. :)

	guyleguy:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 21:57 GMT	4 points
	Got a respectable 67, forgot most of the children's games and some obscure ones like the NES Golf game. And honestly, more people got Mario Kart than Super Mario Bros? As in the game that pretty much launched the current era of video games? The game that saved the video game market after the Atari meltdown? Alright, just checking.

	AdmiralMaxtreme:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 22:02 GMT	11 points
	I think that "Super Mario Brothers" should be acceptable instead of just "Super Mario Bros." "Bros" is just the abbreviation for "Brothers," so shouldn't "Brothers" count, too?

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 22:19 GMT	2 points
	"Super Mario Brothers" doesn't count for two reasons. First, every game using the "Mario Bros" title has used the "Bros." abbreviation in lieu of "brothers." Second of all, there's a maximum character length for answers - that is, the total length of all accepted answers for a given slot cannot exceed a particular length. Accepting "brothers" brought the quiz over length for some fields, so I had to err on the side of specificity in order to make the full quiz work.

	Cheeseknight:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 22:47 GMT	2 points
	Thank you so much! I've been waiting for this one for a while! Also, why is Dr. Mario Online RX not on here?

	ElDavo:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 23:20 GMT	2 points
	I didn't get many... missed Mario Partys 1-8, all of which I've played... I don't really follow the Mario series of games much.

	BenA:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 23:27 GMT	2 points
	Good quiz. I can't believe how many I forgot but there's even more I didn't know! I remember a game called Mario and Yoshi (almost a tetris style game) on my Gameboy, should that be in it? I do live in the UK so it may not have been a US release.

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 23:29 GMT	2 points
	Cheeseknight - I decided it was a remake of Dr. Mario, mostly. Ben - Mario & Yoshi was released simply as "Yoshi" in North America, and is on there.

	thevictor390:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 23:47 GMT	2 points
	There was a Mario Teaches Typing 2 - I had it. I'd also argue that Super Mario 64 DS is more than just a remake, but I can see both sides of that. There was also a Game Boy "Donkey Kong" that was very different from the NES/arcade version, and I know there was a Donkey Kong III for NES but I don't know if you play as Mario, er... "Jump Man." Glad to see Mario Clash for VB, though... I still have that.

	thevictor390:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 23:51 GMT	2 points
	Forgot one - Mario and Luigi were choices for starting pitchers on the Game Boy game "Baseball," which also featured Mario on the cover art (although in game he is indistinguishable from the other characters).

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 21st, 2008 at 23:51 GMT	2 points
	I was unaware that the Game Boy Donkey Kong was different, but given that they'd go in together I'm not stressed about it. Donkey Kong III does not involve controlling Mario. I did, however, miss Mario Teaches Typing 2. My apologies. :)

	el_barto:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 00:29 GMT	2 points
	I don't know a whole lot about Mario, especially the new school. But I'm extremely disappointed in those who don't know Mario got his start on DK.

	ed martin:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 01:17 GMT	-2 points
	It should accept "super mario brothers" aswell as "super mario bros."

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 01:51 GMT	2 points
	ed martin - I addressed that complaint above - my comment at 22:19 GMT. But in any case, there's a limit to how many answers I can accept for a given item, and "brothers" put me over that limit. I had to stop accepting something, and given that every single game in the series is in fact called "bros," not "brothers," it was the most reasonable thing to stop accepting.

	DK:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 02:16 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz. Really bummed about some of them. I knew the games just couldn't remember the exact titles. Like the two-thousand door I kept thinking was the 2000 year old door, and super mario strikers I thought was just Mario Football. I also like how you made the colours red, green and white like the Italian flag. ;)

	Patrick:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 02:42 GMT	0 points
	If mario has to be playable, then alot of these games that are on the list shouldnt count. Also this list is missing alot of games, Such as some of the older Donkey Kongs, and I would surely add Punch-out, if Mario is missing counts.

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 03:02 GMT	2 points
	Patrick - the rule is "Mario is playable or in the title." Which games, exactly, do you think don't fit that criterion?

	BlueWingX:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 03:18 GMT	3 points
	Hey Phil, what about "Mario & Wario"? It was only released in Japan, but wouldn't it count? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_and_Wario

	TallKool1:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 03:44 GMT	1 point
	A couple questions...Mario All-Stars, and the Mario Advance series? I know they're compilations, but it's "Mario Games"...

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 04:00 GMT	5 points
	BlueWingX - It was on an earlier draft of the quiz. I cut it because I discovered a bunch more Japan-only Mario games that didn't even have translated titles, and made the game too hard as a result. So now the only Japan one is the Japanese SMB2, which did eventually see US release, and anyway, almost everybody will get along with the American SMB2.

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 04:00 GMT	2 points
	TallKool1 - Yeah, but I excluded all compilations and re-releases, as it says in the fine print. :)

	Psychlone:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 04:26 GMT	0 points
	What about Donkey Kong Jr.? Mario was in that game.

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 05:25 GMT	2 points
	Psychlone - Yes, but he was not in the title or controllable in it. :)

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	Matt :	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 16:10 GMT	-2 points
	Um...one major omission was Punch Out (or Mike Tyson's Punch Out if you prefer). Mario was the ref.

	boston bully:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 16:27 GMT	-2 points
	Matt good call I was about to put that in here myself but you beat me to it

	Ben:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 17:54 GMT	1 point
	Matt and Boston.. it says that it must be a playable character or in the title of the game... he wasnt playable as the ref :)

	Math Chick:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 18:44 GMT	2 points
	I think Phil and Ben should be nominated for sainthood for their patient replies!

	guyleguy:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 18:55 GMT	2 points
	You really should include the GB version of "Donkey Kong," as it is a completely different game than the original arcade DK. Basically, it is the prequel to "Mario vs. DK," and yes, you do play as Mario in the game. I kept trying "Donkey Kong 94" or "Game Boy Donkey Kong" but neither one was working...

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 19:23 GMT	2 points
	guyleguy - As I said in an earlier reply, I didn't realize it wasn't just a remake of the classic arcade game, but even if I had, I'd have given it for "Donkey Kong," so it wouldn't affect the outcome much. :)

	guyleguy:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 20:20 GMT	4 points
	True, but typing "Super Mario Bros. 2" brings up two answers, right? Same with Mario Tennis. It wouldn't change the difficulty, but it would acknowledge that the game exists as something besides a remake.

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 20:29 GMT	2 points
	guyleguy - Sure. And if I did the quiz now, I'd add it as a separate entry. My point is that the error doesn't affect the quiz much, not that it isn't an error. :)

	The Hiryuu:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 07:53 GMT	1 point
	Is Yoshi's Island DS an entirely new game? I thought remakes didn't count...if that's in there and it's not simply a remake of Super Mario World 2, #1 - Super Mario All-Stars, Super Mario Bros. DX, and all the Super Mario Advances should be in there, and #2 - I have to check it out. Mario is Missing and Mario's Time Machine are both also available on NES and SNES. And "NES Open Tournament Golf" requiring that full thing and not simply "NES Open" is a little rough, don't ya think?

	The Hiryuu:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 08:02 GMT	2 points
	Err, meant to be if it is a new one, have to check it out. If it isn't, the others should be there. Whoops.