List of Mario games by genre

This is a list of games that Mario has appeared in, or games with other Mario characters, organized by genre. Over the years, Mario and his brother Luigi have appeared in several popular video games, both with starring and less significant roles.

Platform series

This category includes any of the main" Mario" games: platform games (2D and 3D) that feature Mario as the main player character.

"Mario" series

RPG series

Original

"Mario Party" series

"Mario Tennis" series

Other sports

"Mario's Picross" series

Picross is a paint by numbers game on a 5×5 to 15×15 grid in which digits along the sides describe the widths of squares to be filled out, or etched in, by Mario's pickaxe in order to reveal a picture within a time limit.

Licensed educational "Mario" games

The following educational games were licensed by Nintendo, but not developed and published by Nintendo.

Cancelled "Mario" games

For one reason or another, the following Super Mario games were announced but never commercially released.

"Super Mario's Wacky Worlds"

*System: CD-i
*Developer: Nova Logic
*Cancelled because of the CD-i's commercial failure. It was intended to be a true sequel to "Super Mario World", but was replaced by "Hotel Mario".

"Super Mario 64 2"

*Developer: Nintendo EAD
*System: Nintendo 64
*From shortly after the release of "Super Mario 64", Shigeru Miyamoto promised a sequel to "Super Mario 64". The game was apparently going to feature Mario and Luigi, and was said to be at varying stages of development throughout the life of the Nintendo 64 console. The game was never shown and never released, and it may eventually become the "Super Mario 128" project that also has never been released, Shigeru Miyamoto has said that elements from Super Mario 128 went on to create Pikmin (for GameCube) and Super Mario Galaxy (for Wii).

"Super Mario 128"

*Developer: Nintendo EAD
*System: Nintendo GameCube/Wii
*Like "Super Mario 64 2" before it, "Super Mario 128" has been long-awaited and will almost definitely never be released. However, experiments of the game have reportedly led to the development of the Wii Remote and has inspired the development of the "Mario" game for the Wii console (similar to the experiments with "Super Mario FX" leading to the development of the Nintendo 64 controller and "Super Mario 64"). However, during his keynote speech at the Game Developers Conference 2007, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto revealed what eventually happened to "Super Mario 128". "What happened to "Mario 128"?" said Miyamoto at the end of his keynote, "most of you already played it...," then the screen showed that "Mario 128" equated to "Pikmin".