Extension included the game on their "Best JRPGs of All Time" list. In its first week of release in Japan, The Thousand-Year Door was the best-selling game, selling about 159,000 units. It proceeded to sell 409,000 units in the country and 1.23 million copies in North America. The game has since been included in the Player's Choice line. Legacy The Thousand-Year Door is considered by many to be the best game in the Paper Mario series. Later games to appear in the series, starting in 2007 with Super Paper Mario, began to change the format and genre after each release to fit the scope of an action-adventure series, by removing certain role-playing game elements and other features, such as turn-based combat. The new approach was often critiqued by critics, and most reviewers compare the game to The Thousand-Year Door to highlight what the games were lacking. Paper Mario: The Origami King returned some minor elements that had been removed from the games that it followed, such as Paper Mario: Sticker Star'', but most critics still derided the game of having a lack thereof. Notes References External links Official Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door website (via WayBack Machine) Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door at RPGClassics 2004 video games Alien invasions in video games Video games about demons Video games about dragons Fantasy video games Intelligent Systems games GameCube-only games Interactive Achievement Award winners Mario role-playing games Video games developed in Japan Video games set on the Moon GameCube games Video games about shapeshifting Video games about magic Transgender-related video games Single-player video games Video games about curses Paper Mario Video games scored by Yuka Tsujiyoko D.I.C.E. Award for Role-Playing Game of the Year winners