Editing Super Mario Land (section)

=== Sales ===
Following the Game Boy's "overnight success",<ref name="IGN: GB history" /> ''Super Mario Land'' became the second best-selling [[1989 in video games|1989 release]] in North America (behind the bundled ''Tetris'').<ref name="Famitsu83">{{cite magazine |title=Count Down Hot 100: USA Hot 10! |magazine=[[Famicom Tsūshin]] |date=16 April 1993 |issue=226 |page=83 |lang=ja |url=https://archive.org/details/famitsu-issue-226-apr-1993/page/83}}</ref> In the United States, the game topped [[Babbage's]] Game Boy sales charts for two months [[1992 in video games|in 1992]], from August to September.<ref name="EGMOct1992">{{cite magazine |date=October 1992 |title=EGM Top Ten |url=https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Gaming_Monthly_Issue_039_October_1992/page/n43/mode/2up |magazine=[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]] |pages=44–45 |issue=39}}</ref><ref name="EGMNov1992">{{cite magazine |date=November 1992 |title=EGM Top Ten |url=https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20040%20%28November%201992%29/page/n39/mode/2up |magazine=[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]] |pages=40–41 |issue=40}}</ref>

''Super Mario Land'' went on to sell more than 25 million copies, making it the [[List of best-selling Game Boy video games|fourth best-selling game]] on the console.<ref name="Sales" /> The game also outsold ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' (1988), the best-selling stand-alone (non-bundled) game on the NES home console.<ref name="IGN: history3" />