Mario Sports Superstars | |
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Developer(s) |
Bandai Namco Studios Camelot Software Planning |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Director(s) | Naohiro Hayashi Shugo Takahashi |
Producer(s) | Fumihiro Suzuki Hiroyuki Takahashi Shugo Takahashi |
Designer(s) | Hiroyuki Takahashi Shugo Takahashi |
Programmer(s) | Sangbae Nam Haruki Kodera Yutaka Yamamoto |
Artist(s) | Takanori Ikezawa Satoshi Tamai |
Composer(s) | Motoi Sakuraba |
Platform(s) | Nintendo 3DS |
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Genre(s) | Sports |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Mario Sports Superstars is a sports video game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS handheld video game console. The game contain five sports minigames, soccer, baseball, tennis, golf, and horse racing, and was released worldwide in March 2017.
The game consists of five sports – soccer, baseball, tennis, golf, and horse racing. Despite the number of sports contained, they are not mini-games, but rather, full-scale recreations of each sport. For example, the soccer part of the game contains eleven versus eleven gameplay, the same as is standard in the sport. Each individual sport contains single player tournaments, local multiplayer, and online multiplayer game modes.
The game was first announced during a Nintendo Direct on September 1, 2016. Despite Nintendo's ownership of the Mario franchise, the title is being co-developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Camelot Software Planning, with the latter having developed games in the Mario Golf and Mario Tennis series. While Nintendo's Mario Sports line has featured stand-alone entries in soccer (Mario Strikers), baseball (Mario Super Sluggers), tennis (Mario Tennis) and golf (Mario Golf), they had never featured horse racing, or compiled all these sports into one compilation. The game was released worldwide in March 2017. As with Camelot's previous Mario sports titles, the soundtrack was written and arranged by Motoi Sakuraba.