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 * 1985: Super Mario Bros. initially released in Japan for the Famicom. Worldwide, the game would quickly become one of the most important and the best selling titles of all time. It starred the plucky plumbers in yet another adventure that took them across a multitude of different stages.
 * 1996: The Nintendo 64, along with classic Super Mario 64, is released. The console is one of the pioneering systems capable of generating 3D graphics. It is also the originator of the standard joystick that is used in many controllers.
 * 2001: The GameCube is released in Japan on the 14th, three days after hijackers crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. Because of this, the economy took a major dip and the sales of the Cube weren't very appealing. This same fate occurred with Microsoft's Xbox console.