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Mario
Mario, created by Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto, first appeared as "Jumpman" in the 1981 arcade game "Donkey Kong" before becoming the star of his own franchise beginning with 1985's "Super Mario Bros.," and he has since become the best-selling video game franchise character in history. The Mario franchise spans platformers, kart racers, sports games, and party games across dozens of individual titles, and its willingness to experiment with genre while keeping the core character and Mushroom Kingdom setting consistent let Nintendo build one of the most commercially durable properties in entertainment history. Mario's cross-media reach, including the record-breaking 2023 animated "Super Mario Bros. Movie" and decades of merchandising, theme park attractions, and cultural references, extended the character's recognition well beyond people who have ever actually played a Mario video game. Mario's combination of its unmatched sales record as gaming's best-selling franchise and its successful expansion across genres and media formats has made it the most commercially significant video game franchise in the industry's history.
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Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy launched in 1987, created by Hironobu Sakaguchi for developer Square, reportedly named partly because the game was intended as the company's last-ditch project before an anticipated bankruptcy, a fate the game's surprise commercial success ultimately helped the company avoid entirely. The franchise became known for its anthology structure, with each mainline numbered entry typically featuring an entirely new self-contained story, world, and cast of characters rather than direct narrative continuity, letting Square (later Square Enix) continuously reinvent the series' setting and mechanics with each new installment. Final Fantasy VII, released in 1997, is widely credited as one of the most influential and commercially significant role-playing games ever made, helping establish Japanese role-playing games as a major commercial genre for Western audiences during the PlayStation era. Final Fantasy's combination of its unusual anthology structure reinventing itself with each entry and Final Fantasy VII's historically significant role popularizing Japanese RPGs in the West has made it one of the most influential video game franchises in the industry's history.
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