When it comes to gaming icons, one character stands above all the rest. No one, not even Master Chief, Samus, Link, Cloud, Sephiroth, Mega Man, or all the rest can match what Mario has done for the video game industry. Other characters and games have been good, but at the end of the day, no one can take away from the fact that Mario was the character who made video games famous in the first place. The very first Super Mario Brothers title helped sell well over 40 million Nintendo units. A TV show was made to hype Super Mario Brothers 2, and even though Mario 2 wasn't nearly as good as the original, Nintendo quickly learned from there mistake and began the marketing behemoth that was the hype of Super Mario Brothers 3. Super Mario 3, without question, was the single most hyped game of all t