| RolStoppable said: There's a bunch of fake Super Mario games out there, so I thought I would list them all to make less knowledgeable gamers aware of them. This list doesn't include iPhone garbage which aren't official games in the first place; this is just about titles that were wrongly called Super Mario games by Nintendo. In chronological order:
Definite excusable exception: Super Mario Kart (SNES). The "Super" prefix comes from the console it was developed for, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. This is confirmed by later iterations of the series that all dropped the prefix "Super".
Questionable exception: Super Mario RPG (SNES). I am leaning towards another case like Super Mario Kart. The "Super" probably refers to the SNES, but since there was never a sequel, it can't be said with absolute certainty.
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You are wrong. They are all Super Mario games. As far as I understand your reasoning you consider a Mario game fake if; they are NOT in 2D - would I be correct then?
Well, the original 2D Mario games were called Super Mario Bros. - Bros being the key word here. You are too concerned with the prefix "Super" when you totally disregard the suffix "Brothers". I would call the 2D Marios for the (Super) Brothers-series, as it's the one thing that connects all the "true" Mario games, and not the word "Super" since the original SMB actually is a sequal to the game "Mario Bros". Thus, Mario Bros is the first true Mario game (Donkey Kong excluded since Mario is called Jumpman in that one), and in that game you find "Bros" and not "Super" - therefore a Super Mario game isn't fake unless it's got the word "Bros" in it.
One could argue that the word "Super" implies the use of power ups as well.
So, in other words: you're wrong.
Hope that was understandable...
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