Next Level Games
| Next Level Games | |
|---|---|
| |
| Founded | August 2002[?] |
| First Super Mario game | Super Mario Strikers |
| Latest Super Mario game | Mario Strikers: Battle League |
| Current president | Douglas Tronsgard (CEO) |
- “Next Level Games! Wahoo!”
- —Mario, Mario Strikers Charged
Next Level Games is a Canadian video game company that has made five video games of the Super Mario franchise, namely all three of the Mario Strikers games, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, and Luigi's Mansion 3. Next Level Games is also credited as "Special Thanks" in the Nintendo 3DS remake of Luigi's Mansion. Additionally, the company developed Super Mario Spikers until the game was canceled in favor of Punch-Out!! for the Wii. The company also created other sports games for the Nintendo GameCube (and competing consoles).
Due to the success of its games for Nintendo, the studio co-founder, Jason Carr, announced that Next Level Games would be working exclusively with Nintendo following the release of Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon.[1] On January 5, 2021, Nintendo announced that it had acquired 100% stake in Next Level Games, making it a wholly owned subsidiary.[2]
Super Mario installmentsEdit
| Title | Year released | Console |
|---|---|---|
| Super Mario Strikers | 2005 | Nintendo GameCube |
| Mario Strikers Charged | 2007 | Wii |
| Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon | 2013 | Nintendo 3DS |
| Luigi's Mansion 3 | 2019 | Nintendo Switch |
| Mario Strikers: Battle League[3] | 2022 | Nintendo Switch |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Nutt, Christian (January 9, 2014). Next Level Games: Working with Nintendo, making a studio great for developers. Gamasutra. Retrieved February 12, 2024. (Archived January 9, 2014, 16:37:14 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
- ^ (January 5, 2021). Notification of the Acquisition of the Canadian Software Developer, Next Level Games. Nintendo. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
- ^ Theriault, D. (February 14, 2022). Next Level Games Confirmed To Be Developing Mario Strikers: Battle League. Nintendo World Report. Retrieved February 14, 2022.
