With the huge success of Nintendo's Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, its unsurprising that the company would want to recreate that hit with a sequel. However, due to their collaboration with Square on the project, Nintendo had to rebrand the sequel as Square weren't available to develop the game. Thus, Paper Mario was born. Nintendo management didn't have a lot of faith in the game as they produced a small amount of cartridges with very little advertising. Its 2001 release date in North America and in European territories only worsened sales. Due to the rise and advent of the series on the Gamecube and the Wii, as well as the dedicated die-hard Mario fanbase, there's still a huge demand for Paper Mario on the N64. Paper Mario can cost as much as £65 for just the cartridge, or up to £80-90 with a case in decent condition. Paper Mario isn't insanely rare, but Nintendo's dedicated plumber loving fanbase will make obtaining a neat copy of the game both expensive and hard.
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