Maybe it is the game being good, maybe it is just nostalgia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises http://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Maybe it is the game being good, maybe it is just nostalgia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game... With 240 million sales, there's probably a little Mario in each of us. New releases and/or perpetual emulation of Mario games is the one constant we can expect to find in future generations of devices with new and old generations of people alike grabbing coins and jumping on Koopa shells.