Then what do you think of THIS!?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mario_games_by_year

It boggles the mind.  Mario was overused before his first game!  So really, Mario is actually whoring himsel out LESS now than he did back in the old days.  Good for him!

Eh as long as the games are different, and fun to play, I couldn't really give a damn how many Mario games they make. Most of my favorite games on Wii are Mario games of some kinda anyway. I do wish however that they cut the extra bs Mario has been in for awhile and refocus on the traditional 2-D Mario sidescrollers. That's where Mario is best.

He was actually in more games than they have listed. He was in Tennis for the Nes and Qix for the Gameboy, too.

Mario only does everything.

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Omg! What a huge list!

Ugh... I have so many games of that list... even Mario Teaches Typing... for the Mac!!

Mario teaches typing, love that one!
If people want to see over-milked franchise, Mario is included.
Reason being they release more than one game for the years, when other great franchises release every one to three years.
However, I still love Mario, you've got to like his personality =)

why not!?

Mario is huge and recognised as high quality games, i love Mario games!

Mario was only in three games in each of the last two years?

It has been confirmed that Mario is getting lazy.

nintendo would get really confused if they were banned from using mario in their games.

they are great at making them, but they need to let some stand on their own two feet without having mario in it.

there'll never be another metroid at this rate.

Exactly.  You and Mario have this in common.

This is why you took that month long break.