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Now don’t get me wrong – Super Mario World has somehow replaced Mario 3 in recent years as the de facto 2d Mario game. It’s always been strange to me how subtle that shift was. Ask the Mario 3 vs. Mario World question in 2000 and there’s no question that Mario 3 wins out. But as people get older, Mario World’s addition of Yoshi, the nonlinear world map, ghost houses, star road, switch blocks, etc became the standard. I’m not at all interested in getting into a Mario 3 vs. Mario World debate – that horse has been beaten to death – but I’m pretty interested in how that shift occurred. I can’t think of too many other examples where one game in a series usurped the title from another so many years later.

For other games that quietly rose a lot within their series, there's Majora's Mask and Final Fantasy IX.
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