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Mario RPG
Developer(s)	Various
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Years active	March 9, 1996–February 23, 2006
Genre(s)	RPG
System(s)	Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, SNES

The Mario RPG series is an unofficial branch of Mario games that have spawned various RPG games featuring Mario characters and the Mario universe. The first of these was Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Later, the Paper Mario series appeared, followed by the Mario and Luigi games for the Game Boy Advance.