Editing Mario (section)

====Sports games====
{{See also|List of Mario sports games{{!}}List of ''Mario'' sports games|Mario Kart{{!}}''Mario Kart''}}
Nintendo has released a variety of sports games featuring ''Super Mario'' properties, which include [[tennis]], [[golf]], [[baseball]], [[soccer]], [[kart racing]], and other miscellaneous.

In the 1984 video game ''[[Golf (1984 video game)|Golf]]'', although one of the two playable characters looks similar to that of him, wearing red clothes and black pants,<ref name="ign golf">{{cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/11/marios-love-of-golf|title=Mario's Love of Golf|date=October 11, 2012|access-date=March 25, 2021|website=[[IGN]]|last=Nix|first=Marc|archive-date=October 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030033740/https://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/11/marios-love-of-golf|url-status=live}}</ref> he is never directly referred to be Mario;<ref name="Kotaku sports">{{cite web|url=https://kotaku.com/the-ups-and-downs-of-mario-sports-games-1826037124|title=The Ups And Downs Of Mario Sports Games|date=June 22, 2018|access-date=March 25, 2021|website=[[Kotaku]]|last=Bertoli|first=Ben|archive-date=January 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127202043/https://kotaku.com/the-ups-and-downs-of-mario-sports-games-1826037124|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1997, his look was changed in the re-release of the [[Famicom Disk System]] to that more like the character, and Nintendo later confirmed the character was Mario in a guide book of the game in 1991, marking his first sports video game appearance.<ref>{{cite book | title=Mario Mania: Nintendo Player's Guide | publisher=[[Nintendo of America]] | date=1991 | location=Redmond, WA | oclc=299240250 | page=9}}</ref> He then directly appeared in ''[[NES Open Tournament Golf]]'' in 1991 as one of two playable characters, the other being Luigi, along with a variety of other ''Mario'' characters with supporting roles. The character sprites were designed by [[Eiji Aonuma]], his first project in graphical art design.<ref name="Kotaku sports"/>

''[[Mario's Tennis]]'' for the [[Virtual Boy]] was the first tennis game featuring Mario. [[Camelot Software Planning]], who previously developed ''[[Everybody's Golf (1997 video game)|Everybody's Golf]]'' for Sony, was contracted to develop ''[[Mario Tennis]]'' for the [[Nintendo 64]].<ref name="Kotaku sports"/> Each character had a unique ability, with Mario having an all-around average set of skills to pair with his type of character.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/08/mario_history_mario_tennis_-_2000|title=Mario History: Mario Tennis – 2000|date=August 28, 2015|access-date=March 25, 2021|website=[[Nintendo Life]]|last=Whitehead|first=Thomas|archive-date=April 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424115609/http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/08/mario_history_mario_tennis_-_2000|url-status=live}}</ref> This would eventually set the stage for future ''Mario Tennis'' video games.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2004/12/03/camelot-talks-mario-power-tennis |title=Camelot Talks Mario Power Tennis |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=December 2, 2004 |website=IGN |access-date=January 20, 2015 |archive-date=February 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226192502/http://www.ign.com/articles/2004/12/03/camelot-talks-mario-power-tennis |url-status=live }}</ref>

The ''[[Mario Kart]]'' series began with ''[[Super Mario Kart]]'' for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]] in 1992; early in development, the game did not have any ''Mario''-themed elements. A few months into the process, the designers were testing how one character would look at another they had just passed.<ref name="mariokartwii" /> They implemented Mario, simply to see how he would look inside a kart, and the original concept was scrapped entirely after they decided he looked better than the previous non-defined characters.<ref name="mariokartwii">{{cite web | title = It Started With A Guy In Overalls | publisher = Nintendo Wii | url = http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/mariokart/vol1_page1.jsp | access-date = December 28, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080409212703/http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/mariokart/vol1_page1.jsp | archive-date = April 9, 2008 | url-status = live }}</ref> Similar to the ''Mario & Luigi'' series, he appears as a sprite that turns in 16 different angles.<ref>{{cite web|last=Heckel|first=Nathan|title=Reviews – Super Mario Kart|publisher=Nintendojo|url=http://www.nintendojo.com/reviews/SNES/view_item.php?1052508795|access-date=December 28, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061114022502/http://www.nintendojo.com/reviews/SNES/view_item.php?1052508795|archive-date=November 14, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> <!-- Add more info about later installments -->

''[[List of Mario sports games#Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series|Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games]]'' is a crossover series of party and sports games featuring characters from the ''[[Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' franchise and the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series. It includes different varieties of sports such as skateboarding, fencing, volleyball, gymnastics, and many others.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/review/52115/mario-n-sonic-at-the-olympic-games-tokyo-2020-switch-review |title=Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games: Tokyo 2020 (Switch) Review |first=Daan |last=Koopman |website=Nintendo World Report |date=November 5, 2019 |access-date=March 27, 2024 |archive-date=November 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191105204939/http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/review/52115/mario-n-sonic-at-the-olympic-games-tokyo-2020-switch-review |url-status=live }}</ref>