List of Mario video games by genre

This is a list of games that Mario has appeared in, or games with other Mario characters, organized by genre. Over the years, Mario and his brother Luigi have appeared in several popular video games, both with starring and less significant roles.

Platform series

This category includes any of the main Mario games: platform games (2D and 3D) that feature Mario as the main player character.

Mario series

Main article: Mario (series)

Title	Released	Developer	System
Donkey Kong	1981	Nintendo	Arcade
Mario Bros.	1983	Nintendo	Arcade
Super Mario Bros.	1985	Nintendo EAD	Famicom/NES
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels	1986	Nintendo EAD	Famicom Disk System
Super Mario Bros. 2	1988	Nintendo EAD	NES
Super Mario Bros. 3	1988	Nintendo EAD	Famicom/NES
Super Mario Land	1989	Nintendo RD1	Game Boy
Super Mario World	1990	Nintendo EAD	Super Famicom/Super NES
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins	1992	Nintendo RD1	Game Boy
Super Mario 64	1996	Nintendo EAD	Nintendo 64
Super Mario Sunshine	2002	Nintendo EAD	Nintendo GameCube
New Super Mario Bros.	2006	Nintendo EAD	Nintendo DS
Super Mario Galaxy	2007	Nintendo EAD Tokyo	Wii

Spinoffs

Several characters from the main series have gone on to star in their own platform games, many of which feature Mario in minor roles.

Title	Role of Mario	Released	Developer	System
Donkey Kong Jr.	Antagonist	1982	Nintendo	Arcade
Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3	Rival/minor antagonist	1993	Nintendo	Game Boy
Wario's Woods	Not present	1994	Nintendo	NES/Super Famicom/Super NES
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island	As a Baby	1995	Nintendo	Super Famicom/Super NES
Luigi's Mansion	Abductee	2001	Nintendo EAD	Nintendo GameCube
Super Princess Peach	Abductee	2005	TOSE	Nintendo DS
Yoshi's Island DS	As a Baby	2006	ARTOON	Nintendo DS

Remakes of platformers

Main article: Super Mario remake series

Title	Released	Developer	System
Kaettekita Mario Bros.	1989	Nintendo EAD	Famicom Disk System
Mario Bros. Classic	1993	Nintendo EAD	NES
Super Mario All-Stars	1993	Nintendo EAD	Super Famicom/Super NES
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe	1999	Nintendo EAD	Game Boy Color
Super Mario Advance	2001	Nintendo EAD	Game Boy Advance
Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2	2002	Nintendo EAD	Game Boy Advance
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3	2002	Nintendo EAD	Game Boy Advance
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3	2003	Nintendo EAD	Game Boy Advance
Super Mario 64 DS	2004	Nintendo EAD	Nintendo DS

RPG series

Main article: Mario role-playing games

Original

Title	Released	Developers	System
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars	1996	Square/Nintendo	Super Famicom/Super NES

Paper Mario

Paper Mario DS || TBA || TBA || Nintendo DS

Mario & Luigi

Title	Released	Developer	System
Paper Mario	2000/2001	Intelligent Systems	Nintendo 64
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door	2004	Intelligent Systems	Nintendo GameCube
Super Paper Mario	2007	Intelligent Systems	Wii

Title	Released	Developer	System
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga	2003	AlphaDream	Game Boy Advance
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time	2005	AlphaDream	Nintendo DS
Mario & Luigi RPG 3	2009	AlphaDream	Nintendo DS

Mario Party series

Main article: Mario Party (series)

Title	Released	Developer	System
Mario Party	1998	Hudson Soft	Nintendo 64
Mario Party 2	1999	Hudson Soft	Nintendo 64
Mario Party 3	2000	Hudson Soft	Nintendo 64
Mario Party 4	2002	Hudson Soft	Nintendo GameCube
Mario Party 5	2003	Hudson Soft	Nintendo GameCube
Mario Party-e	2003	???	e-Reader
Mario Party 6	2004	Hudson Soft	Nintendo GameCube
Mario Party Advance	2005	Hudson Soft	Game Boy Advance
Mario Party 7	2005	Hudson Soft	Nintendo GameCube
Mario Party 8	2007	Hudson Soft	Wii
Mario Party DS	2007	Hudson Soft	Nintendo DS

Sports series

Mario Kart series

Main article: Mario Kart

Title	Released	Developer	System
Super Mario Kart	1992	Nintendo EAD	Super Famicom/Super NES
Mario Kart 64	1996	Nintendo EAD	Nintendo 64
Mario Kart Super Circuit	2001	Intelligent Systems	Game Boy Advance
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!	2003	Nintendo EAD	Nintendo GameCube
Mario Kart Arcade GP	2005	Namco Bandai	Arcade
Mario Kart DS	2005	Nintendo EAD	Nintendo DS
Mario Kart Arcade GP 2	2007	Namco Bandai	Arcade
Mario Kart Wii	2008	Nintendo EAD	Wii

Mario Golf series

Main article: Mario Golf (series)

Title	Released	Developer	System
NES Open Tournament Golf	1991	Nintendo RD1	Famicom/NES
Mario Golf	1999	Camelot	Nintendo 64
Mario Golf	1999	Camelot	Game Boy Color
Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour	2003	Camelot	GameCube
Mario Golf: Advance Tour	2004	Camelot	Game Boy Advance

Mario Tennis series

Main article: Mario Tennis (series)

Title	Released	Developer	System
Mario's Tennis	1995	Nintendo	Virtual Boy
Mario Tennis	2000	Camelot	Nintendo 64
Mario Tennis	2001	Camelot	Game Boy Color
Mario Power Tennis	2004	Camelot	Nintendo GameCube
Mario Tennis: Power Tour	2005	Camelot	Game Boy Advance

Mario Strikers series

Mario Strikers is a football/soccer video game series that was developed by Next Level Games and published by Nintendo.

Title	Released	Developer	System
Super Mario Strikers	2005	Next Level Games	Nintendo GameCube
Mario Strikers Charged	2007	Next Level Games	Wii

Mario Baseball series

Title	Released	Developer	System
Mario Superstar Baseball	2005	Namco	Nintendo GameCube
Mario Super Sluggers	2008	Namco	Wii

Mario & Sonic series

Title	Released	Developer	System
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games	2007/2008	Sega Sports	Wii/DS
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games	2009	Sega	Wii/DS

Other sports

Title	Released	Developer	System
Mario Excite Bike	1995	Nintendo	Satellaview
Mario Hoops 3-on-3	2006	Square Enix	Nintendo DS

Puzzle series

Dr. Mario series

Main article: Dr. Mario (series)

Title	Released	Developer	System
Dr. Mario	1990	Nintendo RD1	Famicom/NES/Game Boy
Tetris & Dr. Mario	1994	Nintendo	Super Famicom/SNES
Dr. Mario 64	2001	Newcom	Nintendo 64
Dr. Mario Online Rx	2008	Nintendo	Wii/WiiWare

Mario vs. Donkey Kong series

Title	Released	Developer	System
Donkey Kong	1994	Nintendo	Game Boy
Mario vs. Donkey Kong	2004	NST	Game Boy Advance
Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis	2006	NST	Nintendo DS

Mario's Picross series

Picross is a paint by numbers game on a 5×5 to 15×15 grid in which digits along the sides describe the widths of squares to be filled out, or etched in, by Mario's pickaxe in order to reveal a picture within a time limit.

Title	Released	Developer	System
Mario's Picross	1995	Jupiter	Game Boy
Mario's Picross 2	1995	Jupiter	Game Boy
Mario's Super Picross	1995	Jupiter	Super Famicom

Mario & Wario

Main article: Mario & Wario

Hotel Mario

Main article: Hotel Mario

On the compact disc-interactive console by Philips, is the obscure puzzle-action game where Mario must take the elevator between the several floors of a hotel to shut every door to clear the level. Like in Wrecking Crew, the path Mario takes is critical so that he does not walk into enemies. Some enemies open doors on each floor and will end the game if every door in the stage is opened. Each hotel ends in a boss battle with one of the Koopas from Super Mario Bros. 3 until Bowser at the end.

Wrecking Crew series

One of the early, pre-Super Mario Bros. Famicom games, Wrecking Crew combined action with puzzle. As Mario, players have to chip away all of the stone walls on each tower, avoiding enemies and being sure not to get trapped. In 1998 a pseudo-sequel was created, putting Wrecking Crew into a more generic block puzzle format.

Title	Released	Developer	System
Wrecking Crew	1985	Nintendo RD1	Famicom/NES
Wrecking Crew '98	1998	Nintendo RD1	Super Famicom Nintendo Power cartridge

Miscellaneous

Title	Released	Developer	System
Super Mario Bros. Special	1986	Hudson Soft	NEC PC-8801
Alleyway	1989	Nintendo R&D1	Game Boy
Mario Paint	1992	Nintendo EAD	Super Famicom/Super NES
Mario Clash	1995	Nintendo EAD	Virtual Boy
Mario no Photopi	1998	Nintendo	Nintendo 64
Mario Artist	1999	Nintendo EAD	Nintendo 64 64DD
Mario Pinball Land	2004	Fuse	Game Boy Advance
Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix	2005	Konami	Nintendo GameCube
Itadaki Street DS	2007	Armor Project, Square Enix	Nintendo DS

Licensed educational Mario games

The following educational games were licensed by Nintendo, but not developed and published by Nintendo.

Title	Released	Developer	System
Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up	1991	Software Toolworks	PC
Mario Is Missing!	1993	Software Toolworks	NES
Mario's Time Machine	1994	Software Toolworks	NES
Mario's Early Years: Fun with Numbers	1994	Software Toolworks	Super NES
Mario's Early Years: Fun with Letters	1994	Software Toolworks	Super NES
Mario's Early Years: Preschool Fun	1994	Software Toolworks	Super NES
Mario Teaches Typing	1991, 1995	Interplay	DOS, Windows/Macintosh
Mario Teaches Typing 2	1997	Brainstorm	Windows
Mario's FUNdamentals	1997	Brainstorm	PC

Cancelled Mario games

For one reason or another, the following Super Mario games were announced but never commercially released.

Super Mario's Wacky Worlds

• System: CD-i
• Developer: Nova Logic
• Cancelled because of the CD-i's commercial failure. It was intended to be a true sequel to Super Mario World, but was replaced by Hotel Mario.

Super Mario 64 2

• Developer: Nintendo EAD
• System: Nintendo 64
• From shortly after the release of Super Mario 64, Shigeru Miyamoto promised a sequel to Super Mario 64. The game was apparently going to feature Mario and Luigi, and was said to be at varying stages of development throughout the life of the Nintendo 64 console. The game was never shown and never released, and it may eventually become the Super Mario 128 project that also has never been released. Miyamoto has said that elements from Super Mario 128 went on to create Pikmin (for GameCube) and Super Mario Galaxy (for Wii).

Super Mario 128

• Developer: Nintendo EAD
• System: Nintendo GameCube/Wii
• Like Super Mario 64 2 before it, Super Mario 128 has been long-awaited and will almost definitely never be released. However, experiments of the game have reportedly led to the development of the Wii Remote and has inspired the development of the Mario game for the Wii console (similar to the experiments with Super Mario FX leading to the development of the Nintendo 64 controller and Super Mario 64). However, during his keynote speech at the Game Developers Conference 2007, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto revealed what eventually happened to Super Mario 128. "What happened to Mario 128?" said Miyamoto at the end of his keynote, "most of you already played it...," then the screen showed that Mario 128 equated to Pikmin.