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Pokémon vs Mario vs Zelda

Nintendo, the Japanese video game company, owes a great deal of its commercial success to the Super Mario, Pokémon and Legend of Zelda series. Many games based on these fantasy universes are available for Nintendo consoles and handhelds. Million of console gamers have grown up enjoying the adventures of the iconic plumber, Mario, with his impossible jumps and cute friends and foes. Pokémon fans are all about collecting hundred of different creatures and then training them to make them more powerful so they can capture more pokémon. And so forth. Repetitive? Yes, but great fun too. Now with the arrival of Pokémon Go, this franchise has become trully a mass phenomenon. Other Nintendo fans prefer the RPG genre and to incarnate Link and figtht their way through forests and dungeons to rescue princess Zelda.

Top Nintendo games

Nintendo can claim to have produced some of the best video games of the history of the industry. Titles such as Metroid, Donkey Kong, Super Smash Bros., Animal Crossing, Star Fox 64, Fire Emblem and Golden Eye 007 have left an imprint on gamers' hearts. However, any top Nintendo games list would be incomplete without including several of the excellent videogames of the Pokémon, Mario and Zelda sagas. We have shortlisted here some of the best titles of the three franchises:

Top 10 Mario Games

Super Mario Galaxy (Wii 2007)

Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES 1990)

Super Mario 64 (N64 1996)

Mario Kart Super Circuit (GBA 2001)

Paper Mario (N64 2001)

Super Mario Bros. (NES 1985)

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (SNES 1995)

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (DS 2009)

Mario Kart DS (DS 2005)

Super Mario Land (GB 1989)

Top 10 Pokémon games

Pokémon Red & Blue (GBA 1998)

Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver (DS 2009)

HeartGold & SoulSilver (DS 2009) Pokémon Black & White (DS 2011)

Pokémon Gold & Silver (GBC 2000)

Pokémon X & Y (3DS 2013)

Pokémon Snap (N64 1999)

Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen (GBA 2004)

Pokémon Emerald (GBA 2004)

Pokémon Yellow (GB 1998)

Pokémon Platinum (DS 2008)

Top 10 Zelda games

The Legend of Zelda (NES 1987)

The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (N64 1998)

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES 1991)

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (GB 1993)

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GC 2003)

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (N64 2000)

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS 2013)

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES 1988)

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages & Seasons (GBC 2001)

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (2009)

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