Mario Strikers (series)

The Mario Strikers series, also known as the Mario Football series in Europe and Australia, and the Mario Soccer series in South Korea, is a series of Mario games in which Mario and his friends play "Strike", a more extreme variant of association football (commonly known as "football" or "soccer"). It is a Nintendo-exclusive series that launched its first game in 2005. The series contains Super Mario Strikers and Mario Strikers Charged, as well as the upcoming Mario Strikers: Battle League.

Trivia

 * It is one of the two Mario sports series next to the Mario Baseball series to not be released on a handheld console.
 * To promote the first entry in the series, a browser game was released in 2005 called Super Mario Strikers -- Heads-Up.