text: Outside platform games , he has appeared in video games of other genres , including the Mario Kart racing series , sports games , such as the Mario Tennis and Mario Golf series , and role-playing games such as Paper Mario and Super Mario RPG .
simplified: The Mario Kart series is a type of Mario sports game . There have been other Mario sports games like Mario Golf and Mario Tennis , and the baseball and soccer games Mario Superstar Baseball and Super Mario Strikers .