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Myriapod Mania

Posted on August 5, 2021 by Nathan

I played a little bit of Centipede at the Silverball Retro Arcade in Asbury Park this past weekend, and I remembered seeing something online about the manual for the Atari 2600 version having a crazy back story. The game, introduced in … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Biology, Comics, Donkey Kong, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Science, Video Games | Tagged atari, bees, beetles, centipede, dragonflies, earwigs, elves, fleas, hypnosis, inchworms, insects, kamek, lord motley bugnut, millipede, mosquitoes, mushrooms, myriapoda, paper mario: sticker star, scorpions, shigeru miyamoto, space invaders, spiders, super mario land, super mario land 2, wigglers, wizards | 4 Comments

Drainpipes and Dragons

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Nathan

Dragons are a mainstay of fantasy fiction, and of course have appeared in a number of video games. Even Metroid has them, and that series is more science fiction than fantasy. Dragons in the Super Mario universe in particular are … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Biology, Cartoons, Chinese, Final Fantasy, Japanese, Language, Magic, Mario, Metroid, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Science, Semitic, Television, Video Games | Tagged baba yaga, bahamutt, blarggs, bowser koopa jr., captain toad treasure tracker, czar dragon, dinosaurs, draggadon, dragohoho, dragon driftway, dragons, dragonzamasu, earth dragon, final fantasy vi, gaburyu, gobblegut, gold dragon, humbaba, king bowser koopa, mario and luigi: superstar saga, mario kart 8, paper mario, paper mario color splash, paper mario: the thousand-year door, ruined dragon, sauropods, sea horses, super mario galaxy 2, super mario land, super mario odyssey, super mario rpg, super mario world, tarasque, toad, turtles, tyrannosaurus rex, unbaba, wario's woods, yoshi, yurarin | 3 Comments

Kiss a King

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve looked at a few of the Mario stories from the Nintendo Comics System, and I thought I might as well throw a few more reviews into the mix. While my previous reviews were just of stories I’d read recently, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Donkey Kong, Dreams, Humor, Mario, Monsters, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged anime, beezos, betrayal most proper, birdo, boshi, bowser koopa jr., cobrats, donkey kong coloring and activity book, donkey kong jr., donkey kong no ongaku asobi, donkey kong strikes again!, donkey kong's fun with music, fawful, flurries, fryguy, goombas, goomboss, gunions, hammer brothers, hawkmouths, just deserts, king bowser koopa, king k. rool, Kirby, luigi mario, mario and luigi: partners in time, mario mario, mushroom king, ninjis, nintendo comics system, one piece, paper mario, pauline, piranha plants, princess peach toadstool, pyramids, shroobs, shy guys, sparks, stanley the talking fish, star spirits, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario bros. heroes of the stars, super mario land, super mario odyssey, super mario rpg, the adventures of dirk drain-head, the fish that should've gotten away, the legend, toad, toads, triclyde, venus fire traps, waluigi, wario, wart, wooster, yoshi, you again? | Leave a comment

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 | 2 Comments

Koopas in the Kosmos

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Nathan

Picture by Nathan Johnson I can’t say I’m that familiar with the Super Mario Galaxy games. I remember watching a friend play the first one, and it looked pretty complicated, even toward the beginning when it was still kind of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Donkey Kong, Kid Icarus, Kirby, Mario, Metroid, Star Wars, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged birdo ray, comet observatory, dk jungle climber, fireproof lava boat, flying pizza, goombas, katsini, king bowser koopa, koop star, luigi mario, mario and luigi: bowser's inside story, mario and luigi: partners in time, moon, mouser, octoombas, paper mario: the thousand-year door, platean, princess peach toadstool, Rosalina, shroobs, space zone, starship mario, starshroom, super mario galaxy, super mario galaxy 2, super mario land, super mario land 2, tatanga, toad, toad brigade, toads, wario, wario's woods, x-nauts | 5 Comments

Warping Through Continuity

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Nathan

While there is an official Zelda timelime, there still isn’t one for the Mario series, which makes sense as they don’t really focus on story. Fans certainly have tried to come up with one, however, and have made some clever … Continue reading →

Posted in Donkey Kong, Mario, Video Games | Tagged bowser koopa jr., continuity, cranky kong, doki doki panic, donkey kong '94, goomboss, king boo, king bowser koopa, koopalings, luigi's mansion, mario and luigi paper jam, new super mario bros. wii, paper mario, princess peach toadstool, professor elvin gadd, super mario 3d land, super mario 64, super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario galaxy, super mario galaxy 2, super mario land, super mario land 2, super mario sunshine, super mario world, tatanga, timelines, wario, yoshi, yoshi's story | 2 Comments

Mario’s Early Enemies

Posted on March 30, 2017 by Nathan

Do video games not come with manuals anymore? I know some of them have links to online manuals, but that isn’t exactly the same, even if they’re more convenient. I miss looking at the brief descriptions of various enemies. Still, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Donkey Kong, Focus on the Foes, Mario, Monsters, Television, Video Games | Tagged amps, birds, chain chomps, clawgrip, crabs, crows, donkey kong '94, donkey kong country, donkey kong jr., fighter flies, freezies, fuzzies, hawks, hotheads, jays, klaptraps, koopa troopas, li'l sparkies, mario bros., mario vs donkey kong, nitpickers, paper mario, shellcreepers, sidesteppers, slipices, snapjaws, sparks, spinies, stookybirds, super mario 64, super mario advance, super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario land, super mario world, touch fuzzy get dizzy, turtles, watt, yoshi's island | Leave a comment

Wacky Worlds

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Nathan

The original Super Mario Bros. provided several different environments through which Mario (and sometimes Luigi) had to travel: largely flat worlds with trees and bushes in the background, underground caverns, water, cliffs with tops bigger than their bases, and castles … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Food, Maps, Mario, Names, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged dark land, dinosaur land, giant land, gustav holst, king bowser koopa, kitchen island, koopalings, lemmy koopa, mario is missing!, mushroom world, new super mario bros., new super mario bros. u, new super mario bros. wii, nintendo power, sarasaland, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario land, super mario land 2, super mario world, wario land, wendy o. koopa | 3 Comments

The Brothers Are History!

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Nathan

We all know that the format of the original Super Mario Bros., now thirty years old, influenced a lot of other games. Most of them are different enough to do their own thing, but not so much in the case … Continue reading →

Posted in Mario, Music, Video Games | Tagged armin gessert, chris huelsbeck, commodore 64, great giana sisters, hard 'n' heavy, manfred trenz, nintendo, rainbow arts, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario land, time warp productions | Leave a comment

Vehicular Mario

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Nathan

I’ve been thinking of writing a post about vehicles in the Mario games, but I soon came to the conclusion it was difficult to determine exactly what counted. If you wanted to, you could technically count anything from the moving … Continue reading →

Posted in Mario, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged automobiles, cars, marine pop, mario & luigi superstar saga, mario kart, princess daisy, sky pop, starship mario, super mario galaxy 2, super mario land, super mario sunshine, transportation, vehicles, wario | Leave a comment

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Myriapod Mania

Drainpipes and Dragons

Kiss a King

Mario Map Mysteries

Koopas in the Kosmos

Warping Through Continuity

Mario’s Early Enemies

Wacky Worlds

The Brothers Are History!

Vehicular Mario

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