But one game was shown, and although we don’t yet know its title, the consensus is that we’ve had our first look at Mario Kart 9. I’ll admit—the roughly 20 seconds of gameplay looks like ...

Mario's first appearance came with the original Donkey Kong in 1981, since then the Mario franchise has sold over 879 million copies, with "Super Mario" titles making up 430 million of that.

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