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TK14 on 17 August 2013

Yes. Zelda.

Also, Xenoblade, Pokemon, Donkey Kong Country, Kirby, etc.



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Nirvana_Nut85 on 17 August 2013

This was the game that sealed the deal for me as a kid!



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MrUnagi on 17 August 2013

I would have found Zelda and F-Zero and Kirby.



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MrUnagi on 17 August 2013
MrUnagi said:
I would have found Zelda and F-Zero and Kirby.


And Star fox and Xenoblade and Smash Bros and Metroid and so on

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007BondAgent on 17 August 2013
pezus said:
007BondAgent said:
pezus said:
007BondAgent said:
pezus said:

Mario is by a country mile Nintendo's biggest character and IP (IPs? Depends on who you ask). Heck, even enemies of the Nintendo kingdom played it back in the day and liked it. We all know Nintendo release a lot of Mario games so I'm wondering if Mario is the reason you're a Nintendo fan. If Mario didn't exist, would you have become a Nintendo fan in the first place back in the day? The question is primarily directed at Nintendo fans, but it could work for other people as well (if they hate Mario lol).

On home consoles yes

 

But on handhelds, pokemon is actually their biggest ip

Mario Kart? 

I'm talking about all Mario games. Pokemon has nothin' on ol' Mario

Pretty much every mario game was bundled on ds, pokemon on the otherhand can sell without the need off bundles

Yeah, but that still doesn't change the fact that Mario is way bigger than Pokemon. It isn't just about sales per game but also about how many Mario games there are that sell a lot.


Yeah, i'm sure super paper mario and dream team were all mega hits

Mario kart 7, Super mario 3d land and new super mario bros were all massively bundled on the 3ds, yet x and y will outsell it within it's first year



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DieAppleDie on 17 August 2013

well my fav game back then was by far SMWorld
so...probably yes because of N64, being the best console ever and stuf



DieAppleDie on 17 August 2013

to 007bondagent
your are so wrong. MK7 and 3Dland were bundled when they went digital not long ago
and NSMB2 hasnt been bundled at all



Roma on 17 August 2013

yes but probably later than now because of discovering Zelda with OoT



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richardhutnik on 17 August 2013
pezus said:

Mario is by a country mile Nintendo's biggest character and IP (IPs? Depends on who you ask). Heck, even enemies of the Nintendo kingdom played it back in the day and liked it. We all know Nintendo release a lot of Mario games so I'm wondering if Mario is the reason you're a Nintendo fan. If Mario didn't exist, would you have become a Nintendo fan in the first place back in the day? The question is primarily directed at Nintendo fans, but it could work for other people as well (if they hate Mario lol).

Mario is Nintendo's biggest character, because Donkey Kong is THE game that kept Nintendo in the videogame business.  Had they not had Donkey Kong, then Radar Scope would of been the end of Nintendo in videogames, and there would be no NES, and likely no revivival of the home videogames.  PC gaming would of been the norm, and this site wouldn't of been up.  So, no Mario, no videogame business most likely.  Well, at least not one we have today, so no one would even be a fan of Nintendo, and there would really be more Atari fans left.



pokoko on 17 August 2013
RolStoppable said:
pokoko said:
The funny thing is, Duck Hunt and the light gun were Nintendo's big marketing focus back then. I remember people really wanting it for that, because it seemed so cool, like it was an arcade game inside your house. That's why I wanted one, though after I got it, I pretty much never used it again.

Mario BECAME popular because it was bundled with the NES. I think people forget that. Donkey Kong was the well-known character at that point. With that in mind, just about anything could have replaced Mario as Nintendo's bundled game and become popular. Default bundling is THE way to make a franchise popular.

Personally, as someone who never liked Mario games, I would have been happier with something else. The heavy Mario focus always annoyed me somewhat, though I'm kind of glad they pimped out Mario rather than something like Zelda. That would have been sad.

No, the NES became popular because it was bundled with Super Mario Bros. The software sells the hardware.

Default bundling doesn't mean anything, if the bundled game isn't anything special.

Hah, yeah, except no one cared about the Mario Bros. arcade game.  It was basically a new IP and new IPs don't sell hardware.  The NES hit at the right time and became incredibly popular, pulling Mario along with it.  Donkey Kong was their star back then.  Everyone I knew wanted a NES first for the robot, then for the light gun, then for all the games it had.  Perhaps Mario helped in the second half of the console's life-cycle but it certainly wasn't the reason the NES initially broke through.  Mario was just Donkey Kong's understudy at that point.