It’s no surprise that a series that pours innovation, imagination and musical gems into every game it makes would get that kind of results. Easily the most recognizable video game character of all time, the Super Mario series has become the most successful video game franchise, selling over 262 million copies of games worldwide.
The game was just that good.įlash to 2015- Mario has only grown bigger and stronger since. Little did Nintendo know that it would become the fifth best selling video game of all time and, arguably, would be the game that would save video games from extinction after the video game crash of 1983.