Thoughts and Fiction

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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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…