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The  Luigi franchise is a  media franchise consisting of video games published and produced by the Japanese company  Nintendo. It centers around the fictional character  Luigi, an Italian plumber who serves as the hero of a realm called the  Mushroom Kingdom. The franchise was created by game designer  Shigeru Miyamoto and its first installment was the arcade game  Bros., released on July 14, 1983. The games are primarily developed and self-published by Nintendo internally, with some games in the franchise being developed by other companies under Nintendo's supervision, such as  Hudson Soft,  Camelot Software Planning,  Intelligent Systems, and  AlphaDream. Most  Luigi games have been released for Nintendo's various video game consoles and handhelds, from the  third generation onwards.
  
 
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Mushroom World Encyclopedia
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 The  Mushroom World Encyclopedia is a multilingual and open-content project which includes the independent encyclopedias covering the franchise from different areas of the world.
 
 
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Mushroom World Encyclopedia
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 The  Mushroom World Encyclopedia is a multilingual and open-content project which includes the independent encyclopedias covering the franchise from different areas of the world.
  
 
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NIWA is a group of open-content encyclopedias based on Nintendo franchises.
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