Super Mario
All of the theories and thoughts I’ve had about the world of Super Mario (including various Mario timeline posts).
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The Mario Timeline: Mario 64 DS
Time to drop the pretence. I’m kidding myself if I don’t think I’m making a Mario timeline. I didn’t intend to make one, but here we are. Let’s talk about Mario 64 DS. The first and second Mushroom Wars occur, respectively, during the original Super Mario Bros. and New Super Mario Bros. series. In those…
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Mario Timeline: New Super Mario Bros.
Over a series of posts, I have slowly and somewhat unintentionally begun to build my own Mario Timeline. But for a lot of Mario games (especially the side-scrollers), creating a timeline is more a practice in storytelling, world-building, and wild speculation than theorising. Many of the games don’t have much of a story to work…
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Warrior-Plumbers: The Mario Timeline Continued.
A while ago, I wrote a blog post about the Mario Timeline. I didn’t actually make a timeline – I’ve not played enough of the games for that – but I had some thoughts on how to make one. And, now, I’ve had some more thoughts on the matter, so I thought it was worth…
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The Mushroom Kingdom: A Land of Tyranny and Stockholm Syndrome
I may have gotten carried away on this one, maybe let my mind wander a little too freely. But Princess Peach is a tyrannical dictator and all the toads/mushroom people have Stockholm Syndrome. I refuse to elaborate! Okay, maybe I will. How did the Mushroom Kingdom survive before Mario showed up? The Mushroom Kingdom’s people,…
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Creating a Mario Timeline
A few random thoughts on the series’ chronology. There have been a few attempts on YouTube, at least that I’ve seen, to construct a unified Mario timeline – one that includes all of the games. It’s a task that my own nerdy inclinations are sympathetic to, but it does seem a tad insurmountable. There are…
Thoughts and Fiction 