Mario was originally called Jumpman, and was the player character in the arcade game Donkey Kong. Later, Nintendo decided to change his name to Mario ( there are several rumours as to whom mario is named after, including one that says he was named after one of the owners of the pizzeria across the street from Nintendo HQ in the US). His classic outfit was designed less for aesthetics and more for practicality; the first Super Mario Bros. game was on the NES, which had too little memory to process hair, so they gave him a hat. Also, the display from the NES was so pixellated that if all his clothes were one colour, the player would be unable to differentiate his legs from the rest of his body; so in order to make the legs obvious, ninty gave mario his trademark dungarees. As for the second part, Nintendo are still making Mario games because lots of people buy them. They are great games, so there is no reason for ninty to stop making mario games. I hope this has adequately answered your question.
Yes, Nintendo is still making new Super Mario games for each new Nintendo game console that is released. The latest Super Mario game released was for the Nintendo DS3.
yes Nintendo is still making legend of Zelda games and will soon be coming out with one for the Nintendo DS.
Most certainly! Has been for years, still is. Mario is Nintendo's mascot, and the games are one of the hottest games out there, rare, expensive, and completely addicting.
Indeed they are. I know that they are currently working on the 3DS but Nintendo DS Games will not stop until a long time.
Yes, you can use ds lite games in the original Nintendo ds. They are not making new specialized games for the Nintendo ds lite. they are still making games that fit both the original DS and the Nintendo DS Lite.
In some games such as Mario and Sonic at the Olympic games,winter games and at the London 2012 yes they do.But they don't work together to create games such as Samba De Amigo,Mario party 8,Nights:Journey into dreams and any pokemon games.
As long as Nintendo is still in business it seems they will always make Mario kart games. So I'd say that's a safe bet to make that they will.
Yes, Nintendo is still making Pokémon.
actually no they wont stop making sonic games becuase sonic is doing a great job on making his games successful especially sonic lost world its even better than his other games he is tottaly winning mario mario is doing good but still he needs adjustment sonic also needs adjustment but his the most best fictional gamer
No one will know until Nintendo tells us, but I think it is very unlikely, since Francis is from Super Paper Mario, and most of the characters in the Paper Mario games do not appear in the other Mario games. Still, that doesn't mean he won't be in the next Mario Galaxy!
Despite the release of the 3DS, several DS games are still in development, such as Metal Max 2 Reloaded and Kirby Mass Attack. Still, after some time it can be expected that the development of DS games will be phased out.
Possibly, but they are still selling DSi.