Mario RPG should be the "father" of the Paper Mario series, and Mario Land 2 should be the father of the Wario series.

I know I'm a loser for being bothered by little things like that, but still.

Hmm. I had a class with someone who did something quite like this for a class project, and he had a good 100+ games, but I'm not sure if he had absolutely every single one.

Wonder if it's the same guy. *strokes chin*

This is awesome, but yeah, there are a few inconsistencies. The chart puts all the Mariokarts as siblings, yet the Wariowares as children to the original Warioware. Hrm.

And people say Halo is a whored out franchise. This sure puts it in perspective.

Mario & Wario didn't give birth to all the Wario spin-offs. Mario Land 2 did.

And most of them are great.

Its wrong; Why isn't supermairo land 2 (SML2) connected to Warioland (SML3) and Super mario RPG should be connected to Paper mario and mario & luigi.

@deadhaed8

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.:)

They forgot Smash Bros.

...The hell is Punch Ball Mario Bros.?

Also, ho-ho! Cheap shot at Megaman! I'd bet there at at least as many, say, Bomberman games.

As has been mentioned already, their organization leaves something to be desired. The Wario games need to be spun off SML2 instead of Wario and Mario. The Smash Bros games may not be Mario games, but he's more than a cameo in them so they belong there.

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.

Like Kvb said, they messed up Wario's feature. He debuted in Super Mario Land 2, which debuted a spinoff game named "Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land", and from there teh series began.

God, every time I see Super Mario Bros. Special, my skin crawls. I can't play that game anymore.

This is really interesting.

Pssh... Sellout.

It's a good chart but little things like the mario karts and the paper marios not being children to the originals while others were got kind of annoying.