
is widely credited with helping revive the North American gaming industry from the crash of 1983, and was the best-selling videogame for decades until Wii Sports outsold it. Some courses have secret Warp Zones that allow the player to skip ahead. The other courses take place across land, sky, and sea (with swimming based on the controls of Balloon Fight), establishing recognizable course themes such as the underground.

The game features eight worlds with four courses each, ending in one of Bowser's castles where the player fights a Fake Bowser to rescue a mushroom retainer. It is a horizontally sidescrolling 2D platformer that introduced staple characters, items, and enemies, as well as the recurring premise of Bowser kidnapping Princess Toadstool. is the first game in the Super Mario series, originally for the Famicom and NES.
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The series has also spun off into the Yoshi and Wario franchises through backdoor pilots with limited Super Mario branding, as well as the Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker game, each starring a major character that debuted in a Super Mario game.

For the purposes of this article, entries in the series include: The exact definition of the Super Mario series is open to interpretation, and varies between sources, including official websites. It consists of 2D and 3D platforming games, starting with Super Mario Bros. Super Mario is the main series of videogames in Nintendo's Mario media franchise. A stacked Super Mario logo used since Super Mario 3D Land
