Guinness World Records

The Guinness World Records (also abbreviated as GWR) is an annual reference book that lists world records for a variety of subjects, including the Super Mario series. A spin-off of the book called Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition features video game-related world records exclusively.

Super Mario

 * Best-selling Mario game, Super Mario Bros., with over 40.24 million sales
 * Best-selling Wii U game, New Super Mario Bros. U, 4.70 million sales
 * Best-selling non-bundled Mario game and the best-selling Nintendo DS game,New Super Mario Bros., with 29.66+ million sales
 * Highest Coin Target in a Platform Game: New Super Mario Bros. 2, 1,000,000 coins
 * Fastest 70-Star Completion of Super Mario 64: 49 min, 36 sec, by Mike Sigler
 * Fastest Super Mario Bros. Minimalist Speedrun: 5 min, 2 sec, by John Lundrigan
 * Rarest Super Mario Game: Nintendo Campus Challenge, one remaining
 * Highest Rated Platform Game Series: Super Mario, with a Metacritic average of %92
 * Going by aggregator GameRankings, Super Mario Galaxy is the most critically acclaimed Mario game with an average score of 97.64%
 * Fastest Single Segment Completion of Super Mario Bros. 2, 9 min, 15 sec, by Andrew Gardikis
 * Fastest single-segment completion of Super Mario Bros. 3, "MitchFlowerPower", with 3 min 8 sec
 * Fastest completion of Super Mario Bros., "Blubber", with 4 min 57.69 sec
 * Fastest completion of Super Mario World, "GreenDeathFlavor", with 9 min 47 sec
 * Fastest completion of Super Paper Mario, "Gamerob", 4 hrs 24 min and 40 sec
 * Most sports videogames based on a platform series, 19
 * Fastest completion of World 1-1 in Super Mario Bros., Adrian Keung and Tristen Geren, with 31 sec
 * Highest score in New Super Mario Bros.'s Sort or 'Splode, Tristen Geren, with 337 points
 * Highest score in Super Mario Bros., Andrew Gardikis, with 1,435,100 points
 * Highest score on the arcade version of Mario Bros., Isaiah TriForce Johnson, with 1,262,800 points
 * Highest score in VS. Super Mario Bros., Isaiah TriForce Johnson'', with 3, 404, 400 points
 * Highest score in Mario Bros. (NES), Tom Votava, with 10, 777, 770 points
 * Highest score in Mario Bros. (NES and 2-player co-op), Ryan Johnson and Jonathan Adams, with 2,443,650 points
 * Highest score in Mario Bros. (Wii), Chad Brevik, with 14, 900, 990 points
 * Highest score in Super Mario Land, Rudy Ferretti, 999, 999 points
 * Highest score in Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, John Pompa, 1,034,170
 * Lowest score in Stroke Play Congo Canopy in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, Jonathan Adams, with 41 strokes
 * Most Block Star Points in Mario Party 6, Jake Patzer, 71 points
 * Longest Surface Time in Monty's Revenge in Mario Party 7, Jake Patzer, 16.16 sec
 * Shortest Distance in Study Fall in Mario Party DS, Ryan Reed, 0.0m
 * Biggest Blowout in Domination Mode in Mario Strikers, Jeremy Zsupnik, 7
 * Most Kills in Endless Brawl of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Andrew Furrer, 525
 * First Mario game released for Apple hardware, Mario Bros., having been ported by Atari to the Apple II computer before the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System
 * First Super Mario game released for a non-Nintendo system, Super Mario Bros. Special, being released for the NEC PC-88 and the
 * Most viewed online game walkthrough, a YouTube guide for New Super Mario Bros. uploaded by "cesaritox09", viewed 30,331,835 times

Mario Kart

 * Best-selling racing series, the Mario Kart series, with 104.3 million sales
 * Best-selling Racing Game on the 3DS, Mario Kart 7, 6,140,000+ sold
 * Best-selling Racing Game, Mario Kart Wii, 32,040,000 + sold
 * Highest-rated racing game on Nintendo DS going by GameRankings, Mario Kart DS with a score of 91.43%.
 * Best-selling handheld racing game, Mario Kart DS, with 23.11 million sales according to VG Chartz
 * First Nintendo-published game to feature competitive online play, Mario Kart DS
 * Fastest Single-Segment Speedrun of Mario Kart Wii (hard difficulty), 1 hr, 7 min, 9 sec, by Jose Karica
 * Most Super Mario Kart World Records (Female), Leyla Hasso, 30
 * Most Watched Racing Game Fan Film, Rémi Gallard, 63,083,695 views
 * Fastest lap of Airship Fortress in Mario Kart DS, Thomas Bolton, 34.1 seconds
 * Fastest lap of Koopa Beach 2, David Roldan, 12.7 seconds
 * Fastest lap on Rainbow Road in Super Mario Kart, Guillaume Leviach, 16.53 seconds, as well as eighteen other record times on the PAL version and 11 record times on the NTSC version
 * Fastest time trial record on Super Mario Kart's Vanilla Lake 2 for a female, Leyla Hasso, with 51.87 seconds
 * Fastest completion of Mario Circuit 1 in the NTSC version of Super Mario Kart, Sami Çetin, with 55.97 seconds
 * Fastest completion of the All-Cup Tour in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Benoît "TJazZ" Boudreau, with a total time of 29 min, 7 sec
 * Fastest mode for a Mario Kart game, 200cc mode
 * First Mario Kart game with full anti-gravitational racing, Mario Kart 8
 * Most Super Mario Kart World Championship trophies, Florent Leocanet, won seven gold trophies between 2002 and 2015

Donkey Kong

 * Highest score on Donkey Kong (hammer), 1,127,700, by Hank Chien
 * Highest score on Donkey Kong (no hammer), 640, 500, by Estel Goffinet
 * Highest score on Donkey Kong (Emulator), 1, 167, 400, by Dean Saglio
 * Highest score on Donkey Kong 3 (Marathon), 4,252,400, by George Riley
 * Highest score on Donkey Kong 3 (Emulator and Marathon), 6,167, 400, by George Riley
 * Highest score on Donkey Kong Junior (Emulator), 1,308,000, by George Riley
 * Highest score on Donkey Kong (Game Boy/Color), 317, 600, by John Pompa
 * Fastest completion of Donkey Kong (Game Boy/Color), 5 hr 44min and 19 sec, by Tom Vatava
 * Fastest 200% completion of Donkey Kong Country Returns, 5 hr 47 min 50 sec, by John Lundrigan

Wario

 * Fastest completion of time attack in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$, Nicholas Reymann, 1 min 15.36 sec
 * Fastest Completion of Hard Mode of Wario's Woods (NES), Daniel Dock, 11 min 30 sec
 * Fastest Completion of Hard Mode of Wario's Woods (SNES), Daniel Dock, 9 min 45 sec
 * Fastest Completion of Hard Mode of Wario's Woods (Wii), Ryan Genno, 17 min 43 sec

Other

 * Largest Collection of Video Game Memorabilia, 8,030+ as of September 19, 2012, by Brett Martin
 * First movie based on a videogame, Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen!, (which the book directly translates to Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach!), released in 1986.
 * The first feature film based directly on a video game, the Super Mario Bros. film
 * The Best-selling Sonic videogame is Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, with 13.06 million sales
 * Most prolific party videogame series, Mario Party, 14 games released