10 Best-Selling Products Of All Time

#5 Mario Franchise

Category: Video game franchise

Units sold/sales: 262 million units

Parent Company: Nintendo

The Mario Franchise, which could grab the fifth position in the list of evergreen best-selling products, is a media franchise consisting of video games published and produced by Nintendo starring the fictional super hero, Mario. The franchise is active in other media including television series and films. The master brain behind Mario was originally Shigeru Miyamoto which was introduced with the video game, Donkey Kong in July 1981. Then the games were developed by a variety of developers including Nintendo, Hudson Soft and AlphaDream. The major series of the franchise is the Super Mario platform series that follows Mario’s adventures in the fictional world of the Mushroom Kingdom and these games chiefly rely on Mario’s jumping ability to allow him to progress through various levels of the game. The franchise was featured in more than 200 games of various genres, being the best-selling video game franchise of all time.