"Hello/Hallo/Hola/Bonjour/Ciao fellow Europeans! Good news if, like your correspondent, you dwell in gaming's forgotten region - Nintendo Europe has finally pulled its finger out and published a Q3 release schedule that features concrete dates for the likes of Super Paper Mario, Big Brain Academy, Resident Evil Wii Edition, and Trauma Center on the Wii."

"Nintendo sold 70,000 units of Super Paper Mario in Japan the first day of the distribution.

In North America Super Paper Mario sold 149,876 in it’s first 5 days."

"Wii:

1. Super Paper Mario (Nintendo)
2. Cooking Mama: Cook Off (Majesco)
3. Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Midway)
4. Prince of Persia: Rival Swords (Ubisoft)
5. Spiderman 3 (Activision)

GameCube:

1. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo)
2. Mario Party 7 (Nintendo)
3. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo)
4. TMNT (Ubisoft)
5. Super Smash Bros. Melee (Nintendo)

Nintendo DS:

1. Pokemon Diamond (Nintendo)
2. Pokemon Pearl (Nintendo)
3. Puzzle Quest: Chal..."

A video from gametrailers about Super paper Mario which gets into detail about the story and character development

"With the weekend upon us, I am sure a lot of you are playing Super Paper Mario. While the game might not be the most challenging, you might hit a few snags along the way. We’ve provided you with a bunch of links to guides, but MyCheats (1up) has a nice, free, big guide for you to check out. If you are going with one guide, I would say this is the best choice."

There have beens tons of Super Paper Mario reviews giving it fantastic ratings. This video gives it a 7/10, and pretty much makes fun of the game. Overall, it's a funny video, and it only takes up a minute of your time.

"Nintendo argues that some people hooked by the Wii’s ultra-simple tennis and bowling games will lose their sense of intimidation about video games and gravitate toward games like “Super Paper Mario.'’ That’s ultra-wishful thinking. It’s never going to happen in any significant numbers.

What may happen, to concede a different point to Nintendo, is that
some lapsed gamers may pick up where they left off years ago, attracted by the originality of the Wii’s controls. They indeed might be “..."

"While Mario's proper 3D Wii adventure is still a ways off, Nintendo and developer Intelligent Systems have cooked up an engaging adventure to tide the plumber's fans over--Super Paper Mario. Although originally slated to be a GameCube release, Super Paper Mario has been shifted to the Wii to good effect. The unique game is a hybrid of platforming and role-playing that feels both new and familiar at the same time. The game has many of the aesthetics of the previous Paper Mario games and featur..."

"I feel bad. Yesterday I posted an article about how the nice people at Circuit City would give the unhappy customers who did not receive Paper Mario on opening day a giftcard of $20 if they did not have it. Because of my tiny, little, Asian beady eyes, I did not see how fine the print really was. Aaron emailed us to tell his story:

I get to Circuit City and stand in the customer service line. I see they'd erected a little sign reading Super Paper Mario sold out. I'm bummed that they do..."