3. Super Mario Bros 3: It's All An Act
Nintendo's American-Italian mascot is the biggest name in video games. No single character has spawns not only depth but variety of games. From his adventures to save his girlfriend, Princess Peach, to his games of tennis, racing, parties and the list goes on and on. The mustachioed super hero has outlasted his rivals, producing strings of entertaining games consistently, starting all the way back 1983 with Super Mario Bros (not counting Donkey Kong, which featured Mario as "Jumpman" in 1981) until the present in which Nintendo routinely releases Mario games. After the initial success of Mario 1 and 2, Nintendo released Super Mario Bros 3 in 1988. The intro to the game shoes a curtain rising up onto Mario and Luigi on what appears to be a stage. This was later incorporated into the idea that Super Mario 3 is just a play, and that Mario, Luigi and the Princess are in no real danger at all. The theory goes on show how instead of previously platforms floating into the air, they now appear to be supported by mechanisms and screwed in to the background, all supporting the "it's all a play" theory. On top of this theory, a darker, slightly sinister version of it is that the play is all in Mario's mind, after freeing the princess and returning to his regular plumber life, Mario can't quiet cope with the reality that he is no longer the hero and turns to alcohol. Mario 3 is actually all in his head and creates a fantasy in which he is again the hero. Sad, but potentially true seeing as Nintendo has never seen fit to rebuff the theory, so it continues to make the rounds on the internet.