Paper Mario

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Paper Mario
Developer(s)	Intelligent Systems
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Release date(s)	JP August 11, 2000 NA February 5, 2001 PAL October 5, 2001 Virtual Console JP July 10, 2007 PAL July 13, 2007 NA July 16, 2007
Genre(s)	RPG
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: E (Everyone) ELSPA: 3+ OFLC: G
Platform(s)	Nintendo 64 Nintendo iQue Virtual Console
Media	320 Mbit (40 MB) N64 cartridge
Input	Nintendo 64 controller, GameCube controller (Wii), Classic controller (Wii)

Paper Mario, known in Japan as Mario Story (マリオストーリー, Mario Sutōrī^?), and called Super Mario RPG 2 and Super Mario Adventure during production, is a role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It was first released in Japan on August 11, 2000, in North America on February 5, 2001, and in Europe on October 5, 2001.

Paper Mario was a spiritual sequel to Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars for the Super NES, and is the first game in the Paper Mario series of video games. It has had two sequels released; the first, for the Nintendo GameCube entitled Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and a second for the Wii entitled Super Paper Mario, which is designed as a platformer with role-playing elements.

The game’s English title comes from its unique graphical style, reminiscent of older Mario titles, which features 2-D looking characters resembling paper cutouts contained within 3-D environments, with a full range of 3-D movement, hence the name.

The game was re-released on Wii’s Virtual Console on July 16, 2007.^[1]