Mario is in...Less Games Than I Imagined Actually - Crossover Quest

So, I was looking at some of the previous stuff I'd done to find crossovers, and found that Mario, for being known for doing everything, isn't actually in as many crossovers as I expected. I'm not sure if this is because I'm discounting a lot of crossovers with the Legend of Zelda for already being included, but there aren't that many. There are some though, so let's dive in.

Mario, along with his brother Luigi and Peach (who isn't his brother That would make certain scenes awkward) is in SSX On Tour, picking up a hobby of skiing and snowboarding. I guess he's quite good at it, but I was never really good enough to know.

He's also shooting some hoops with them on NBA Street V3. You'd think with all the exercise he does, he wouldn't be so portly. Maybe it's just all the cake that Peach gives him.

Finally, on the side of Mario sticking himself into other people's games, there's Fortune Street, a Monopoly-esque game that started out as a Dragon's Quest minigame, but eventually became its own thing. Incidentally, the series also features Final Fantasy characters, but not in the same game as the Mario characters.

However, Mario doesn't just sneak into other games. There are characters from other franchises in his own games. Final Fantasy shows up again, this time in Mario Hoops 3 on 3, where a Moogle, Ninja, Black Mage, White Mage and Cactuar turn up to shoot some hoops (wow, I didn't know Mario liked Basketball that much).

And of course, there's the arcade versions of Mario Kart, where he invites quite a few characters from other series to join him on the racetrack. As well as the previously mentioned Pacman, there's also Don-chan, who's from the Taiko no Tatsujin series, a series of rhythm games that only has one game translated into English, which is on the Playstation 2.

Interestingly enough, in the second arcade version of Mario Kart, there's also a Tamagotchi, Mametchi, who you can play as.

You thought I was kidding, didn't you?

So, that's where Mario's gotten around.

Since this was a little short, I'm going to mention something about the Super Smash Bros game I discovered whilst researching this.

Pacman's up taunt is known as Namco Roulette, and it summons one of quite a few characters including at least one character from Dragon Buster, Taiko no Tatsujin, Bosconian, Galaga, Galaxian, The Tower of Druaga, Rally-X, Baraduke, Dig Dug, Sky Kid, Gaplus, Xevious, Libble Rabble, King & Balloon, Valkyrie no Denesetsu and Metro-Cross.

So that's 16 games included in just a single taunt, in a game that in its first installment had 12 characters total. Nowadays, a mere taunt has more characters than an entire game used to have.

That's just... wow.