"Paper Mario" received critical acclaim, receiving a 93/100 on review aggregator Metacritic based on 15 reviews. The game was the top selling game in Japan on the week of its release, selling more than 276,000 copies, and the top-selling game for two weeks in other regions. It was ranked #141 on "Electronic Gaming Monthly"'s "Greatest 200 Videogames of their Time" in February 2006, the 63rd best game made on a Nintendo system in "Nintendo Power"s "Top 200 Games" list, and the 13th greatest Nintendo 64 game of all time by the same magazine. It currently ranks as the sixth-highest scoring Nintendo 64 game on Metacritic, the ninth highest rated video game of 2001, and the highest-scoring Nintendo 64 game released that year.