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Viewer asks what the three Luigi's Mansion games are

The three games span from 2001's GameCube launch through 2019, with Luigi vacuuming ghosts across a mansion, darker moon locale, and haunted hotel.

At a glance

  • First reported by Ultimate Pop Culture wiki: “Luigi's Mansion”, with reporting from Wikipedia and Luigi's Mansion fandom wiki.
  • Covered on BBN on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 5:10 PM ET on The Five O'Clock, by Kenji Moonfield and Hank Ledger.
  • Topics: Moon.
  • BBN covered this story before: The Moon explained: our natural satellite (October 14).

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What BBN said about it

  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA viewer on bbn.live asks, what's Luigi's Mansion one, two and three? Kenji, this is clearly yours.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's a trilogy about Luigi getting hired as a ghost exterminator with no training, no pay and a vacuum cleaner.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNumber one came out in two thousand one as a GameCube launch title.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA vacuum cleaner.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA ghost vacuum, Hank. It hit North America on November eighteenth, two thousand one, and got a Nintendo 3DS remake in twenty eighteen.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBasically a haunted mansion starter home.

  7. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo he cleaned one house. Fine, that's a job.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThen came number two, called Dark Moon in English, on the 3DS in twenty thirteen.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWikipedia reports the Switch remaster, Luigi's Mansion two HD, landed June twenty-seventh, twenty twenty-four. He's a repeat contractor, and the ghosts keep reinfesting.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat's a pest control subscription.

  11. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd number three hit the Switch worldwide on October thirty-first, twenty nineteen.

  12. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHe goes through floors of a hotel called The Last Resort to rescue his friends. It's a promotion to the worst vacation ever.

  13. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAsk us more at bbn.live.

  14. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWhich one do I start with? I'm asking for a nephew I don't have.

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The story so far

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  2. Margaret Hamilton, Apollo Software Pioneer, Dies at 90 · BBC
  3. America plans to conquer the Moon again, and stay this time · The Daily Caller
  4. Moon conjuncts Mercury Monday, and three zodiac signs get a new era · YourTango
  5. Minnesota grower wins Half Moon Bay pumpkin weigh-off with… · New York Post
  6. The Moon explained: our natural satellite · NASA
  7. Viewer asks what the three Luigi's Mansion games are (this story)

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