1996 's Super Mario RPG : Legend of the Seven Stars for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System is the first Mario role-playing game . There have also been five more Mario RPG 's : Paper Mario , for the Nintendo 64 ; Mario & Luigi : Superstar Saga , for the Game Boy Advance ; Paper Mario : The Thousand-Year Door , for the Nintendo GameCube ; Mario & Luigi : Partners in Time , for the Nintendo DS and Super Paper Mario , for the Wii . 1996 's Super Mario RPG : Legend of the Seven Stars for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System is the first Mario role-playing game ; six games have followed , including three in the Paper Mario series ( Paper Mario for the Nintendo 64 , Paper Mario : The Thousand-Year Door for the Nintendo GameCube , and Super Paper Mario for the Wii ) and three in the Mario & Luigi series ( Mario & Luigi : Superstar Saga for the Game Boy Advance and Mario & Luigi : Partners in Time and Mario & Luigi : Bowser 's Inside Story for the Nintendo DS ) .