If you ever wanted to see the sheer scale of the Mario franchise, look no further than Limit Break's impressive family line, a handy chart that shows off every single Mario game ever made. The chart breaks it down to show where certain games "fathered" others, and breaks off to show where certain games within the franchise became franchises in their own right.
The chart, of course, is absolutely huge and well worth checking out, just for curiosity's sake. I'd be really interested to see this guy do a chart for Mega Man as well ... but that's probably a project that could take a lifetime to complete.
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9:30 AM on 07.18.2009
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I know I'm a loser for being bothered by little things like that, but still.
Wonder if it's the same guy. *strokes chin*
I'm on it.
yeah I actually own that game sorta. Funny story, some years ago my parents bought my brother and I each a game. For me they bought Final fantasy 1 + 2: dawn of souls and for my brother they bought Puzzle League w/ DR mario. He was not pleased and I was very happy.:)
Smash Bros. isn't a mario game. it just happens to have mario in it.
Also, ho-ho! Cheap shot at Megaman! I'd bet there at at least as many, say, Bomberman games.
Also Mario and Luigi should spawn Mario and Luigi 2 then Mario and Luigi 3, not both of them on the same branch (and they should be spawned off SM:RPG as had already been mentioned).
If you're going to include Super Mario 64 DS it needs to be spun off of the original Mario 64 since it's the same game. That also means Super Mario DX on GBC should be included too. But not the NES Classics/Famicom Mini version since unlike the GBC game it was just a port, whereas DX had been redone to fit the screen of the GBC and included SMB2.
For ease of reading the sports game spin-offs should probably come off from one point so it doesn't clutter up the rest of the tree.
But that's just from a quick read through. I'm sure there's far more things that could be pointed out. It's still a neat look at the whoring of Mario.