Paper Mario, released in the year 2000 is a role-playing video game which is also the first game in the series of Paper Mario. Intelligent Systems developed the game for the Nintendo 64.
The game, Paper Mario, takes place in the Mushroom Kingdom while the main protagonist Mario strives to save Princess Peach from the antagonist of the story, Bowser, who has enclosed the seven Star Spirits. Bowser took the Princess Peach up to the sky, defeated Mario and made him invisible by taking the Star Rod from Star Haven.
The player here takes control of Mario and a few numbers of his partners as they try to resolve the puzzles in the game and also defeat their enemies through battles. All the fighting in the game is unique as they influence the capability of attacks by presenting necessary controller inputs acknowledged as action commands. The player gathers partners as they progress into various locations and only one partner can follow Mario in the overworld, although the player can change them at any time.
If you wish to play the Paper Mario game under the Paper Mario series, an emulator called Nintendo 64 should be installed. Few good Nintendo 64 emulators include Project 64, which is a simple to use, user-friendly interface where you can play any of your favourite Nintendo 64 games. You can freely download this from the emulator's site.
Other Nintendo 64 emulators include Mupen64, Super HLS, 1964, Megan64 and so on.
Paper Mario has got a collection of many games, and after playing this version, you would also like other games with comparable features in the series. Three of the Paper Mario related games are: