Mario spinoffs don't usually introduce major characters to the franchise, but one example occurred in 2001 in Mario Tennis on the N64, which introduced this eternal assist trophy.
Who is Waluigi?
During our trainer's first adventure in the Kanto region, he finds himself battling Brock in the first gym of the game, located in this city.
What is Pewter City?
Of Bombs, Bow and Arrow, and the Lantern, the only one not in the original Legend of Zelda
What is the Lantern?
Despite being a massively popular genre in gaming, this character is the only fighter to come from a Third Person Shooter franchise.
Who is Inkling?
Pokemon Gold and Silver continued the trend of Legendary birds with these two, who were also featured on the boxart.
Who are Ho-Oh and Lugia?
This recurring character first appeared in Mega Man 3, where it was revealed he was Dr. Light's first prototype for a fighting robot.
Who is Proto Man?
Similar to the number of stars in its predecessor, Super Mario Sunshine featured this number of shines.
What is 120?
In the first portable entry of the iconic Mario Kart series, players rev their engines for the first time on this track, the first of Super Circuit's Mushroom Cup.
What is Peach Circuit?
While he may have lost his Metal and Vanish Caps, this Super Mario World power-up was added to Mario's arsenel in Super Mario 64 DS.
What is the P-Balloon?
An upgrade from 64's 12, Melee featured this number of playable characters, if Sheik is counted separately from Zelda.
What is 26?
Despite being the main character, Link's name only appeared in this many mainline games.
What is 4?
Of the Third Party characters from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, he is the only one whose origin game never released on a Nintendo console in any form.
Who is Kazuya?
Despite what you may have been told, Luigi did not first appear in the arcade classic Mario Bros., but this 1983 portable title.
What is Mario Bros. (Game & Watch)?
Kirby couldn't use copy abilities in his series until the second title, Kirby's Adventure, making this starting world the first in the series to feature such abilities.
What is Vegetable Valley?
Of Cutter, Stone, and Sword, the one in the most Kirby games.
What is Cutter?
Although characters like Pokemon Trainer have multiple characters in a single slot, allowing for 6 or more taunts per slot, this fighter is the only one to be a single character with 4 taunts.
Who is Wario?
Ocarina of Time featured a new iteration of the Zelda series' Seven Sages, made up of Zelda, Ruto, Darunia, Impa, Saria, and these last two.
Who are Nabooru and Rauru?
While Rondo of Blood was his first appearance in a video game, Richter Belmont's first North American game appearance would come in the form of this game.
What is Castlevania Dracula X?
Super Mario 64's Tall Tall Mountain featured the first and only mainline Mario appearance of this recurring Monkey.
Who is Ukiki?
In Dr. Mario, the level on which the player chooses decide how many viruses appear in the stage, with the titular character having to defeat this many on the lowest level.
What is 4?
In Yoshi's Island, Yoshi can transform into a car, a helicopter, a train, a submarine, and this powerful vehicle.
What is a tank?
Nowadays extremely common in Smash Ultimate, this fighter from Melee was the first to have a counter, going off of the Smash Ultimate character numbers.
Who is Peach?
Before the days of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and Pokemon Art Academy, this game was the first North American-released Pokemon spinoff.
What is the Pokemon Trading Card Game?
While Dr. Eggman is the main antagonist of the primary Sonic series, this foe took the role of main antagonist in Knuckles Chaotix.
Who is Metal Sonic?
What is Dodgeball?
While Corneria is typically the first level of many Star Fox games, Star Fox: Assault's campaign decided to have Fox and his team visit this recurring planet first instead.
What is Fortuna?
Of Wave Beam, Beam Burst, and X-Ray Scope, the only one not in Super Metroid.
What is Beam Burst?
All Metroid stages but Pyrosphere and Frigate Orpheon are based off of areas from the original Metroid, with only this area from the game never inspiring a stage.
What is Tourian?
Similar to the three magic spells Link obtains in Ocarina of Time, players would need to find these three medallions in a Link to the Past.
What are Quake, Bombos, and Ether?
Metal Gear was released on the NES in 1987 in Japan, but a half a year earlier it released on this computer system.
What is the MSX2?