Which Paper Mario game won Console Role-Playing Game of the Year at the 8th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards?

The Thousand-Year Door won Console Role-Playing Game of the Year at the 8th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards. The award recognized the 2004 Nintendo GameCube role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo.

The ceremony took place in 2005 and is now associated with the D.I.C.E. Awards. The game competed in a strong console role-playing field and was honored for its distinctive blend of turn-based battles, timed action commands, audience mechanics, humor, and storybook presentation.

The award is sometimes misattributed because the Paper Mario series has received several other honors. The original Paper Mario won the same category at the fifth ceremony, while Sticker Star later won Handheld Game of the Year at the 16th awards. Super Paper Mario received nominations and awards in other categories, but it did not win this specific 2005 console RPG prize. The Origami King was released much later and was not an eligible title for this ceremony.