How much “Super Mario” per year?

It's impossible to objectively quantify art, but we try anyway. For example: Is “ Super Mario ” a good video-game franchise? Looking at review scores, Super Mario includes some of the most universally-acclaimed games ever published: Galaxy, Galaxy 2, and Odyssey are respectively the #4, #5, and #13 highest ranking video-games of all time on Metacritic, all with 97 overall. Chances seem good? What if we tried quantifying art in a different and slightly more reductive way? This blog post introduces and calcul