Category Archives: Maps

The King Is a Drip!

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Nathan

It’s March 10, which means that it’s Mario (MAR10) Day, at least in this country. I guess elsewhere it’s Iomar Day. I write a lot about the Mario universe anyway, of course. I’m really not that good at the games, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Humor, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged airships, apook corporation, apook correspondence school of journalism hotel management and transmission repair, boomerang brothers, cloud nine, commander shroob, fungus forest, green gecko gem, harvey atkin, kamek, king bowser koopa, koopa paratroopas, koopa troopas, luigi mario, magic carpet madness, magic wands, mario and luigi: partners in time, mario kart, mario mario, mario's time machine, mushroom king, mushroom kingdom, mutiny on the fungi, nintendo comics system, pidgits, piranha plants, piranha-round sue, princess peach toadstool, shroobs, star hill, stopwatch, super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, the kingdom enquirer, thwomp volcano, time travel, toad, toads, wart, wooster, yoshi's island ds, yoshi's new island | Leave a comment

Prester Change-O

Posted on March 8, 2020 by Nathan

I’d seen mentions of Prester John, but I wasn’t really sure who he was. I’ve since found out he was a mythical Christian king in or near India whom the European Church saw as a potential ally against the Muslims … Continue reading →

Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, Comics, Crusades, History, Islam, Maps, Middle Ages, Monsters, Mythology, Religion | Tagged abraham ortelius, alexander romances, alexander the great, arabian nights, bishop hugh of jabala, bishop jacques de vitri of acre, Byzantine Empire, emperor manuel commenus, fantastic four, genghis khan, jesus, john the apostle, john the baptist, john the presbyter, kara kitai, mongols, nestorian christianity, pope eugenius iii, prester john, seljuk empire, sinbad the sailor, st thomas the apostle, yeliu tashi | 2 Comments

Sticker Fun

Posted on February 22, 2020 by Nathan

I finished Paper Mario: Sticker Star last weekend, and I’m only just writing about it now. It’s fairly slight, especially for a role-playing game, but still pretty fun. I wrote earlier about how you can only make moves by using … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Poetry, Video Games | Tagged aliens, bloopers, boos, bowser koopa jr., dinosaurs, dry dry desert, enigmansion, fuzzies, game shows, ghosts, goombas, gooper blooper, gritzy desert, hollijolli village, kamek, kersti, king bowser koopa, luigi mario, mario and luigi: partners in time, mario and luigi: superstar saga, mario mario, megasparkle goomba, mizzter blizzard, mushroom kingdom, paper mario, paper mario: sticker star, paperization, paragoombas, petey piranha, piranha plants, pokeys, princess peach toadstool, professor elvin gadd, royal stickers, shroobs, shy guys, snifit or whiffit, snifits, spear guys, sticker comet, stickers, time travel, toadbert, toads, toadsworth, toadwood forest, tower power pokey, wigglers, yoob, yoshi's island, yoshis | Leave a comment

Sticking It to Bowser

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve been playing Paper Mario: Sticker Star for over a week now. This one seems not to be all that popular among fans, for several reasons. This is the fourth game in the Paper Mario series, and the first for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged continuity, decalburg, dry dry desert, drybake desert, fairies, kersti, king bowser koopa, mario and luigi paper jam, mario mario, mushroom kingdom, paper mario, paper mario: sticker star, paper mario: the thousand-year door, paperization, shigeru miyamoto, sticker comet, stickers, toads | 1 Comment

Nothing More Than Feelings

Posted on January 17, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve been playing Super Princess Peach recently. I’d heard it was easy, but as much as I love video games, I’m not that great at them. It is generally forgiving compared to traditional Mario games. You have a life bar … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Gender, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged calm, diamond city, durmite, emotions, fury volcano, giddy sky, gloom, goombas, gooper blooper, jewelry land, joy, king boo, king bowser koopa, kitchen island, ladida plains, luigi mario, mario and luigi: bowser's inside story, mario kart 8, mario mario, mushroom kingdom, petey piranha, princess peach toadstool, rage, sherbet land, stone blooper, super mario land 3: wario land, super mario rpg, super princess peach, syrup castle, toad, toad city, toadstool's ???, toadsworth, vibe island, vibe scepter, vibes, wario, wario land ii, wario's woods, warioware, warioware gold, wigglers | Leave a comment

What Would Baum Do?

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Nathan

The Autumn 2019 Baum Bugle has an old article by the late Fred Meyer, which I think I’d seen some version of before, postulating on what L. Frank Baum might have written if he’d lived longer. Obviously we can never … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Maps, March Laumer, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged an oz book, captain fyter, forest of gugu, fred meyer, frogman, glinda of oz, great waterfall, kingdom of dreams, lake quad, oziana, policeman bluejay, polychrome, rinkitink in oz, skeezers, the baum bugle, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the royal book of oz, the tin woodman of oz, tik-tok of oz, twinkle tales, yips | Leave a comment

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em, Then Beat ‘Em

Posted on December 28, 2019 by Nathan

Toad Warriors – This episode seems to be a favorite, or at least it is with the guys who host the podcast on Hard Times. I can’t say I disagree, as I tend to like it when Toad takes a … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Cartoons, Celebrities, Donkey Kong, Food, Greek Mythology, Humor, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged aliens, bats, beezos, birdo, bob-ombs, captain clump, car land, clare carey, count koopula, david horowitz, do you believe in magic?, donkey kong jr., dracula, e.c. the extra creepy, fight back!, fire flower, frankenstein, goombas, grand koopa canyon, great balls of fire, harry blackstone jr, hercufleas, hercules, igor, jerry lee lewis, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, luigi mario, mad max, magic johnson, magician, mouser, mythis, parrots, pasta, patches, pirates, pirates of koopa, princess peach toadstool, ravioli, robots, spaghetti, spiders, super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario odyssey, super mario world, the fire of hercufleas, the marios fight back, the road warrior, thunder birdo, toad, toad warriors, trouters, turtlevania, tweeters, vampires, wereturtles, zombies | Leave a comment

Wario vs. Everybody

Posted on December 27, 2019 by Nathan

I think I’ll write a bit about some video games I’ve never played. I feel a little silly doing that, but I did do some research. That’s something, right? Anyway, I like to understand what these games do in terms … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Pokémon, Video Games | Tagged aliens, birdo, bulldog, cloud catching mountain, drago, dragons, dry dry desert, elves, fairies, golem, katsini, luigi mario, mario and wario, mario kart, mario vs wario, mermaids, mushroom kingdom, new super mario bros. u, nintendo power, pidgits, pleasant woods, princess peach toadstool, sprites, super mario land 2, tatanga, toad, wanda, wario, wario land, wario's woods, witches, yoshi, yoshis | 2 Comments

Mario Map Mysteries

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Nathan

I’ve been looking at the Marioverse Discord group in the past few days, and I’ve seen some interesting speculation as to where certain locations from earlier games might be on the Super Mario Odyssey world map. The thing is, at … Continue reading →

Posted in Donkey Kong, Magic, Maps, Mario, Video Games | Tagged bonneton, bowser's kingdom, cascade kingdom, dinosaur land, king bowser koopa, lake kingdom, luncheon kingdom, mario and luigi: partners in time, mario kart: double dash, mario land, mario party, mario party 2, mario party 7, mario party advance, mushroom city, mushroom kingdom, mushroom world, new donk city, sand kingdom, sarasaland, seaside kingdom, shroom city, snow kingdom, super mario land, super mario land 2, super mario odyssey, super mario world, toadsworth, wario, wooded kingdom, yoshi's island | 1 Comment

Amnesiac Achaeans Anonymous

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Nathan

I finished Glory of Heracles for the DS this past weekend. I’ve written about the game before, but there are a lot of revelations toward the end. The last boss is Typhon, who isn’t really that hard, although he’s annoying … Continue reading →

Posted in Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Humor, Kid Icarus, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged daedalus, erinyes, eris, furies, glory of heracles, hephaestus, heracles, hercules, icarus, iphicles, oceanus, prometheus, titans, typhon, undead, zeus | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Maps

Prester Change-O

Sticker Fun

Sticking It to Bowser

Nothing More Than Feelings

What Would Baum Do?

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em, Then Beat ‘Em

Mario Map Mysteries

Amnesiac Achaeans Anonymous

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