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[[File:Marioseries.jpg|thumb|Artwork from an early 1990s ''Nintendo Power'' guide depicting various ''Super Mario'' games: ''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]'', ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', ''[[Dr. Mario (game)|Dr. Mario]]'' and ''[[Super Mario World]]''.]] | [[File:Marioseries.jpg|thumb|Artwork from an early 1990s ''Nintendo Power'' guide depicting various ''Super Mario'' games: ''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]'', ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', ''[[Dr. Mario (game)|Dr. Mario]]'' and ''[[Super Mario World]]''.]] | ||
Throughout the ''Super Mario'' franchise's life span of over | Throughout the ''Super Mario'' franchise's life span of over forty years, many critics, fans, and developers have considered it to be the greatest video game franchise of all time. Mario is widely considered the most famous video game character in history and an icon of the gaming industry.<ref>[http://www.gamecubicle.com/features-mario-nintendo_shining_star.htm "Nintendo's Shining Star: The History of Mario"]. ''Game Cubicle''. August 23, 2008.</ref><ref>Orlando, Greg. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20081020153928/http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/multimedia/2007/05/gallery_game_history?slide=18 Console Portraits: A 40-Year Pictorial History of Gaming]." ''{{wp|Wired News}}''. May 15, 2007.</ref><ref>Buchanan, Levi. "[http://retro.ign.com/articles/954/954165p1.html Is There a Bad Mario Game?]" | ||
{{wp|IGN}}. February 13, 2009.</ref> Mario was an inaugural inductee of San Francisco's "{{wp|Walk of Game}}," which honored notable figures in video gaming from 2005 to 2012; and was the first video game character to be honored with a figure in the {{wp|Hollywood Wax Museum}} in 2003. At the height of his popularity, a national survey showed that Mario had become more recognizable to children than American cartoon characters like {{wp|Mickey Mouse}}.<ref>Iwabuchi, Koichi. ''[http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=8083&viewby=title Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Nationalism]''. {{wp|Duke University Press}}. p. 30.</ref> Miyamoto has declared Mario to be his favorite out of all the characters he has created.<ref>"[http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/video-games/4334387 Exclusive Interview with Nintendo Gaming Mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto]" on GamePress.</ref> | {{wp|IGN}}. February 13, 2009.</ref> Mario was an inaugural inductee of San Francisco's "{{wp|Walk of Game}}," which honored notable figures in video gaming from 2005 to 2012; and was the first video game character to be honored with a figure in the {{wp|Hollywood Wax Museum}} in 2003. At the height of his popularity, a national survey showed that Mario had become more recognizable to children than American cartoon characters like {{wp|Mickey Mouse}}.<ref>Iwabuchi, Koichi. ''[http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=8083&viewby=title Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Nationalism]''. {{wp|Duke University Press}}. p. 30.</ref> Miyamoto has declared Mario to be his favorite out of all the characters he has created.<ref>"[http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/video-games/4334387 Exclusive Interview with Nintendo Gaming Mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto]" on GamePress.</ref> | ||