Information: - Gameplay. In the game's plot, "Baron Von Blubba" has kidnapped the brothers Bubby and Bobby's girlfriends and turned the brothers into Bubble Dragons, Bub and Bob. Bub and Bob have to finish 100 levels in the Cave of Monsters in order to rescue them. - , subtitled for its original Japanese release, is a 1990 platform video game developed and published by Nintendo as a pack-in launch title for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). Development was handled by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development, led by Shigeru Miyamoto, who produced the game. It also features 2D graphics with linear transformations. - A Platform game (or platformer) is a video game which involves guiding an avatar to jump between suspended platforms and/or over obstacles to advance the game. The player controls the jumps to avoid letting the avatar fall from platforms or miss necessary jumps. The most common unifying element of games of this genre is the jump button, but now there are other alternative like swiping in touchscreen. "Jumping", in this genre, may include swinging from extendable arms, as in "Ristar" or "Bionic Commando", or bouncing from springboards or trampolines, as in "Alpha Waves". These mechanics, even in the context of other genres, are commonly called "platforming", a verbification of "platform". Games where jumping is automated completely, such as 3D games in "The Legend of Zelda" series, fall outside of the genre. - There have been five "Mario Kart" games released for home consoles, three portable games, and three Namco co-developed arcade games, for a total of eleven. The latest title in the series, "Mario Kart 8", was released on Wii U in May 2014. The series has sold over 100 million copies worldwide to date. An enhanced version of "Mario Kart 8", entitled "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe", will be released on the Nintendo Switch in April 2017. - , stylized as PAC-MAN, is an arcade game developed by Namco and first released in Japan in May 1980. It was created by Japanese video game designer Toru Iwatani. It was licensed for distribution in the United States by Midway and released in October 1980. Immensely popular from its original release to the present day, "Pac-Man" is considered one of the classics of the medium, and an icon of 1980s popular culture. Upon its release, the gameand, subsequently, "Pac-Man" derivativesbecame a social phenomenon that yielded high sales of merchandise and inspired a legacy in other media, such as the "Pac-Man" animated television series and the top-ten hit single "Pac-Man Fever". Pac-Man was popular in the 1980s and 1990s and is still played in the 2010s. - Paper Mario, known in Japanese as and originally known as Super Mario RPG 2, is a role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 game console. It was first released in Japan on August 11, 2000, in North America on February 5, 2001, and in Europe and Australia on October 5, 2001. "Paper Mario" was re-released for Nintendo's Wii Virtual Console in July 2007 as well as Wii U Virtual Console in 2015. - In the game, Mario is portrayed as an Italian-American plumber who, along with his younger brother Luigi, has to defeat creatures that have been coming from the sewers below New York City. The gameplay focuses on Mario's extermination of them by flipping them on their backs and kicking them away. The original versions of "Mario Bros."the arcade version and the Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment System (FC/NES) versionwere received positively by critics. - Super Mario Bros. : The Lost Levels is a 1986 side - scrolling , platformer action game developed and published by Nintendo as the sequel to the 1985 Super Mario Bros. The games are similar in style and gameplay apart from a large increase in difficulty . Like the original , Mario or Luigi venture to rescue the Princess from Bowser . Unlike the original , the game has no two - player option and Luigi is differentiated from his twin plumber brother by having less ground friction and higher jump height . The Lost Levels also introduces setbacks like poison mushroom power - ups , counterproductive level warps , and mid-air wind gusts . The main game has 32 levels across eight worlds , followed by five bonus worlds . The Lost Levels was first released in Japan for the Famicom Disk System as Super Mario Bros. 2 ( Japanese : 2 ) on June 3 , 1986 , following the success of its predecessor . It was developed by Nintendo R&D4 , the team led by Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto . Nintendo of America considered the game too difficult to sell in North America and instead sold a retrofitted version of Japanese game Doki Doki Panic as its Super Mario Bros. 2 . The game was not released in North America until its inclusion on the 1993 Super Nintendo Entertainment System compilation Super Mario All - Stars . It was later ported to the Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , and Virtual Console ( Wii , Nintendo 3DS , and Wii U ) . The game is known for its intense difficulty . Reviewers characterized the game as an extension of the original release , continuing the difficulty progression of its forebear . In this way , some recommended the The Lost Levels for those who mastered the original . Video game journalists appreciated the game 's challenge in a speedrunning context . The game gave Luigi his first character traits and introduced the poison mushroom power - up , which would be used throughout the Mario franchise . The Lost Levels was the most popular game on the Famicom Disk System , for which it sold about 2.5 million... - Abandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s, Nintendo then developed into a video game company in the 1970s, ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most-valuable company with a market value of over $85 billion. From 1992 until 2016, Nintendo was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners. - Mario's Time Machine is an educational video game originally released for MS-DOS and then for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super NES consoles. The Software Toolworks both developed and published the MS-DOS and Super NES versions in 1993, while the NES version was developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Nintendo in 1994. The MS-DOS version was re-released as "Mario's Time Machine Deluxe" in 1996. - The "Super Mario" games follow Mario's adventures in the fictional Mushroom Kingdom, usually with Mario as the player character. He is usually joined by his brother, Luigi, and occasionally by other members of the "Mario" cast. As in platform video games, the player runs and jumps across platforms and atop enemies in themed levels. The games have simple plots, typically with Mario rescuing the kidnapped Princess Peach from the primary antagonist, Bowser. The first title in the series, "Super Mario Bros.", released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985, established gameplay concepts and elements prevalent in nearly every "Super Mario" game since. These include a multitude of power-ups and items that give Mario special magic powers such as fireball-throwing and size-changing into giant and miniature sizes. - , subtitled Legend of the Seven Stars in its North American release, is a role-playing video game developed by Square (now Square Enix) and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It was originally released on March 9, 1996, in Japan and on May 13, 1996, in North America. Nintendo ported the game, with minor differences, to the Wii's Virtual Console service in 2008 and to the Wii U's Virtual Console service by late June 2016 to regions around the world. It is the first role-playing video game in the "Mario" series. The game contains fundamental gameplay similarities and inspirations to other Square role-playing video games, such as the "Final Fantasy" series, with a story and action-based gameplay derived from the "Super Mario Bros." series. - Japan ("Nippon" or "Nihon" ; formally "" or "Nihon-koku", means "State of Japan") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland (east of China, Korea, Russia) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest. - After the development of "Mario Party 8", several of Hudson Soft's key designers left to work for Nintendo subsidiary Nd Cube, developers of "Wii Party". Starting in 2012 with "Mario Party 9", Nd Cube has taken over development of the series from Hudson Soft. The latest title in the series, "", was released in 2016 for the Nintendo 3DS. - In video games, power-ups are objects that instantly benefit or add extra abilities to the game character as a game mechanic. This is in contrast to an item, which may or may not have a benefit and can be used at a time chosen by the player. Although often collected directly through touch, power-ups can sometimes only be gained by collecting several related items, such as the floating letters of the word 'EXTEND' in "Bubble Bobble". Well known examples of power-ups that have entered popular culture include the power pellets from "Pac-Man" (regarded as the first power-up) and the Super Mushroom from "Super Mario Bros.", which ranked first in UGO Networks' "Top 11 Video Game Powerups". - Charles Martinet (born September 17, 1955) is an American actor and voice actor. He is best known for voicing Mario in the "Super Mario" video game series. He has voiced Mario, the title character in Nintendo's flagship video game franchise, since 1995. He also voices Baby Mario, Luigi, Baby Luigi, Wario, Waluigi and Toadsworth. - Mario Tennis, known in Japan as , is a 2000 sports video game developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 video game console. The game was released in North America and Japan in the summer of 2000, and released in Europe later in November. It is the first tennis-based game starring Mario since "Mario's Tennis", and the second game developed by Camelot on a Nintendo system. The game is known for being the introduction of Waluigi, and the re-introduction of Princess Daisy and Birdo. - A video game is an electronic game that involves human or animal interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor. The word "video" in "video game" traditionally referred to a raster display device, but as of the 2000s, it implies any type of display device that can produce two- or three-dimensional images. Some theorists categorize video games as an art form, but this designation is controversial. - The "Mario" franchise is the best-selling video game franchise of all time. Over 210 million units of the overall "Mario" series of games have been sold. Outside of the "Super Mario" platform series, other "Mario" genres include the "Mario Kart" racing series, sports games such as the "Mario Tennis" and "Mario Golf" series, role-playing games such as "Super Mario RPG" and "Paper Mario", and educational games such as "Mario Is Missing!" and "Mario's Time Machine". The franchise has branched into several mediums, including television shows, film, comics, and licensed merchandise. Since 1995, Mario has been voiced by Charles Martinet. - Super Mario Bros. 2, released in Japan as , is a 1988 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was first released in North America on October 9, 1988. "Super Mario Bros. 2" has been remade or re-released for several video game consoles. - The action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including handeye coordination and reaction-time. The genre includes diverse subgenres such as fighting games, shooter games and platform games which are widely considered the most important action games, though some real-time strategy games are also considered to be action games. - Luigi first appeared in the 1983 arcade game "Mario Bros." as the character controlled by the second player, and retained this role in "Super Mario Bros.", "Super Mario Bros. 3", "Super Mario World", and other titles. The first game where he was available as a primary character was "Super Mario Bros. 2". In more recent appearances, Luigi's role became increasingly restricted to spinoffs such as the "Mario Party" and "Mario Kart" series, though he has been featured in a starring role on three occasions: first in the 1991 educational game "Mario Is Missing!", in "Luigi's Mansion" for the Nintendo GameCube in 2001, and in "" for the 3DS. In all three of these games, he is called upon to act as the hero because Mario, the usual hero within the franchise, is in need of rescue. Luigi has also appeared in every episode of the three DiC TV series based on the NES and Super NES games. What is the relationship between 'super mario bros.: the lost levels' and 'nintendo entertainment analysis and development'?
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