New Super Mario Bros.

Mario

Princess Peach

Bowser Jr.

Yoshi

The game met a massive success upon launching in Japan, selling nearly 420,000 units in its first day of availability, for a total of nearly 900,000 copies in its first four days of availability, making it the best debut for a Nintendo DS game.

While obviously a 2D game, many moves from the 3D Super Mario 64 were incorporated into the game play. For example, the ground pound and wall kick.

The game reached the half a million mark in the United States in little over a month, selling at a rate of 20 copies every minute, and the 1 million mark twelve weeks after release.

Mario: Here I go!

Mario: It's-a me, Mario!

Mario: Buh-bye!