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somnuz@lemm.ee 2 months agoWell then… To stay true to the history, we probably would have to go back to Galaxian from ‘79, which introduced 1-UPs / additional lives, bonus stages and player upgrades, plus simple summary / statistics for hits and misses.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
See but the question isn’t “originated”.
It’s “popularised”.
Which Mario clearly did, outpassing both “Galaxian” and Crash in terms of popularity.
I know that Crash is bigger for you, but in the big picture, comparing Mario to Crash is like comparing Pokemon to Digimon.
vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Mario
Super Mario Bros. 1985 NES, estimated revenue $1,652,300,000
Have to scroll quite far down this list …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_best-selling_video_game_… to find Crash.