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somnuz@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Well then… To stay true to the history, we probably would have to go back to Galaxian from ‘79, which introduced 1-UPs / additional lives, bonus stages and player upgrades, plus simple summary / statistics for hits and misses.

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Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
See but the question isn’t “originated”.

It’s “popularised”.

Which Mario clearly did, outpassing both “Galaxian” and Crash in terms of popularity.

I know that Crash is bigger for you, but in the big picture, comparing Mario to Crash is like comparing Pokemon to Digimon.

vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Mario

The main core series, Super Mario, began with the platformer game Super Mario Bros. (1985) on the Nintendo Entertainment System. The main games consist of Mario trying to rescue Princess Peach from the villain Bowser and saving the Mushroom Kingdom.

As of June 2024, the Mario video game franchise has sold more than 900 million units worldwide, making it the best-selling video game franchise of all time. The main Super Mario series alone has sold more than 495 million copies worldwide.

Super Mario Bros. 1985 NES, estimated revenue $1,652,300,000

Have to scroll quite far down this list …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_best-selling_video_game_… to find Crash.

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- somnuz@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  See, you are right and that’s exactly why I started with “This might be a little on the side of the main topic”…
  
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  - Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Hmm. Fair enough, fair enough.
    
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