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Rob Kamphausen said:
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Nowhereman said:
As much as the name Mario sells to Nintendo fans, you have to understand that so much being Mario related is what keeps a lot of people away from Nintendo as they view it as being a kiddie orientated games system!



in gamecube's life span, nintendo released a handful of mario titles (your 16 seems high). nintendo also released many times that amount of non-mario games. and thats just first party. second and third party titles saw still more non-mario games.

if the angst of the population is over 1%, or even 10%, of the games, thats a perception issue, not a production or artistic one. there's no great way to correct that.


Ok, you are still totally missing the point and contradicting yourself.
You said that in five years there are 5 Madden games and 5 Mario games, which I said wasnt true.
I then said there was at least 16 Mario related games released in a 4 year period on the GC, which you dispute, then back it up by saying percentages.
By that reckoning Madden makes up a far smaller percentage of games released on any other system than Mario on the GC.

For the record the Mario related GC titles were:
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* Luigi's Mansion (2001) - Mario is the man you must save in this "Ghostbusters-esque" title.
* Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001) - largely a facelift of SSB with a new Final Fight-style side-scrolling brawler; this was also the first game featuring Mario to be given a "T" (Teen) rating from the Entertainment Software Rating Board.
* Super Mario Sunshine (2002) - First Mario platform game for Nintendo's GameCube
* Mario Party 4 (2002)
* Mario Party 5 (2003)
* Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (2003) New features include 2-drivers system, and the support of 16 players playing at the same time, using GameCube's LAN feature.
* Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour (2003)
* Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004) Sequel to Paper Mario.
* Mario Power Tennis (2004)
* Mario Party 6 (2004)
* NBA Street V3 (2005) Mario, Luigi and Peach are playable characters as the "Nintendo All-stars" team in the GameCube edition of this game.
* Mario Superstar Baseball (2005)
* Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix (2005)
* SSX On Tour (2005) Mario, Luigi and Peach are playable characters.
* Mario Party 7 (2005)
* Super Mario Strikers (2005)



Ok, so maybe the NBA game is stretching it, but the fact still remains that it was probably given lots of page space in magazines and on websites that made mention of this!

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