Super Mario Galaxy[a][b] is a 2007 platform video game for the Wii, and the third

3D game in Nintendo's Super Mario series. As Mario or Luigi, the player embarks on
a quest to rescue Princess Peach, save the universe from Bowser, and collect 121
Power Stars. The levels in the game consist of galaxies filled with minor planets
and worlds, with different variations of gravity, the central element of gameplay.
The player controls the player character using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, and
completes missions, fights bosses, and reaches certain areas to collect Power
Stars. Certain levels use the motion-based Wii Remote functions.

Nintendo EAD Tokyo began developing Super Mario Galaxy after the release of Donkey
Kong Jungle Beat in late 2004, when Shigeru Miyamoto suggested that Nintendo should
commission a large-scale Mario game. The concept for the use of spherical platforms
originated from ideas used in Super Mario 128, a technology demonstration shown at
Nintendo Space World in 2000. Nintendo aimed to make the game appeal to players of
all ages, and the team had more freedom in designing it compared to other Super
Mario games because of the outer space setting. The soundtrack was composed by
Mahito Yokota and Koji Kondo, using a symphony orchestra for the first time in the
series.

Super Mario Galaxy was a critical and commercial success, hailed as one of the
greatest video games of all time. Super Mario Galaxy is the highest-rated game of
all time on review-aggregating site GameRankings. Critics praised the game's
graphics, gravity mechanics, soundtrack, and setting. It won several awards from
gaming publications, including multiple "Game of the Year" titles, and became the
first Nintendo title to win the British Academy Games Award for Best Game.[2] The
game is the ninth bestselling Wii game worldwide with sales of 12.79 million, as
well as the second bestselling 3D entry in the Super Mario series. The game was
rereleased as a Nintendo Selects title in 2011, as a download via the Wii U's eShop
in 2015, and on the Nvidia Shield in China in 2018. A sequel, Super Mario Galaxy 2,
was released for the Wii in 2010.