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Paper Mario, known in Japan as Mario Story (マリオストーリー, Mario Sutōrī?) is a role-playing (RPG) video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It was first released in Japan on August 11, 2000, in North America on February 5, 2001, and in Europe on October 5, 2001.

Paper Mario was a spiritual sequel to Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars for the Super NES, and is the first game in the Paper Mario series of video games. It has had two sequels released; the first, for the Nintendo GameCube entitled Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and a second for the Wii entitled Super Paper Mario, which is designed as a platformer with role-playing elements.

The game's English title comes from its unique graphical style, reminiscent of older Mario titles, which features 2D looking characters resembling paper cutouts contained within 3D environments, with a full range of 3D movement, hence the name.

The game was re-released on Wii's Virtual Console on July 13, 2007.[1] The game has been in the Top 20 Most Popular Downloads on the North American Virtual Console since its release and was the Number 1 download when the Wii Shop Channel Updated on August 6, 2007. It was displaced by Super Mario Bros.