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The King Is a Drip!
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 |
Kiss a King
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? |
Never Steal a Used Carpet
Koopa Klaus – Christmas was almost a month ago, but here’s the Christmas episode of this show. I already wrote about this one twelve years ago, and I can’t say I can think of much to add. It is weird … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christmas, Comics, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Food, History, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged al capone, albatosses, apes, bad rap, baron manfred von richtofen, birdo, bob-ombs, brian bonsall, captain lou albano, caught in a draft, cloud land, crime land, danny wells, dirk drain-head, donkey kong, duh stoopid bomb!, ed metzger, eliot ness, fat boys, flab boys, flurries, flying carpets, george washington slept here, gorilla my dreams, gorillas, james brown, king bowser koopa, king james, koopa klaus, koopa klub, koopa troopas, lakitu, little mac, little marios, luigi mario, mama mario, mario and the red baron koopa, mario mario, michael jackson, mother brain, mouser, mushroom king, nester, nintendo comics system, nintendo power, ostros, pasta, pasta land, perry martin, pidgits, president george washington, princess peach toadstool, rap land, ratigator, sam shalam, santa claus, sergeant slaughter, shy guys, snifits, spaghetti, spinies, super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, the untouchables, the unzappables, toad, wart, wooster, world war i |
I’m Gonna Smash This City Flatter Than a Tofu Pancake!
Another week (well, more or less), another set of Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode reviews. Hooded Robin and His Mario Men – Mario and his entourage are in Sharewood Forest on their way to Sharewood Village for some reason, … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Food, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged 20000 koopas under the sea, 20000 leagues under the sea, annette funicello, baroness blueblood, bats, birdo, bloopers, captain abidab, christopher hewett, club nintendo, dirk drain-head, doomsub, dr. t. garden, flower power, fortune teller, frygal, fryguy, godzilla, happy harbor, heart throb, herman melville, hooded robin, hooded robin and his mario men, ice capades, jim ward, jules verne, kamek, kaye ballard, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, koopilus, koopingham, leprechauns, luck, luigi mario, madam agogo, madonna, mario in mariozilla, mario mario, mario meets koop-zilla, mighty mcmario and the pot of gold, moby-dick, mouser, mr. belvedere, ninjis, nintendo comics system, old mcdonald, princess peach toadstool, rob stone, robin hood, sayanora, scott baio, scott nemes, sharewood forest, shy guys, sophia loren, super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super sushi, the adventures of dirk drain-head, toad, toads, trouters, vampire until ready, vampires, wart, young mcdonald |
Grand Unified Marioverse Theory
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one interested in mapping the Mushroom World and riveting together a sense of continuity for the Mario games. Like Oz, the games show a whimsical world where the creators weren’t all that … Continue reading →
Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Maps, Mario, Metroid, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged a link to the past, banjo-kazooie, brothers bear, crossovers, diddy kong racing, dk vine, donkey kong country 3, gulliver, hyrule, king bowser koopa, link's awakening, luigi, mario kart, mario kart 8, mushroom kingdom, mushroom world, ocarina of time, paper mario, paper mario: the thousand-year door, princess peach toadstool, reddit, skyward sword, starfy, super mario bros. 3, super smash bros., wario, wart, yoshi, zelda timeline |
Super Mario Apocrypha
Nintendo kind of seems to be steering away from Mario-related media as of late, as least in North America. I’ve heard that Archie Comics wanted to do a Mario title, but couldn’t get permission. In my younger days, however, there … Continue reading →
Posted in Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Comics, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Magic, Mario, Mega Man, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged anime, bowser koopa jr., club nintendo, dinosaur dilemma, dinosaur land, donkey kong '94, dr. light, dr. wily, flown the koopa, king bowser koopa, koopalings, luigi mario, mario vs wario, mouser, mushroom king, mushroom kingdom, mushroom world, nintendo adventure books, nintendo comics system, princess peach toadstool, super mario 64, super mario adventures, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario rpg, super mario world, the great mission to rescue princess peach, timelines, waluigi, wario, wart, yoshi |
Nintendo in Book Form
I grew up in the heyday of Choose Your Own Adventure books, which allowed the reader to make choices from a list of options at certain junctures in the narrative. A lot of them led to death, because that was … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Donkey Kong, Games, Mario, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged brain drain, cheep cheeps, choose your own adventure, dinosaur dilemma, dinosaur land, donkey kong jr., doors to doom, double trouble, dungeons and dragons, flown the koopa, ganon, hammer brothers, iggy koopa, king bowser koopa, koopa capers, leaping lizards, link, ludwig von koopa, luigi, magikoopas, mario and luigi: bowser's inside story, monster mix-up, morton koopa jr., mushroom king, mushroom kingdom, narnia solo games, nintendo adventure books, pipe down!, princess peach toadstool, super mario world, the crystal trap, the shadow prince, toad, triforce, unjust desserts, wart, wendy o. koopa, wooster, yoshi |
Final Fakery
The TV Tropes page on Urban Legends of Zelda (good name, by the way) had a link to this post from the alt.games.final-fantasy newsgroup, which brought back some memories. I read that group pretty regularly back when I started college, … Continue reading →
Posted in Animal Crossing, Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Humor, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Mario, Metroid, Urban Legends, Video Games | Tagged 7th saga, aerith gainsborough, alt.games.final-fantasy, bahamut, battletoads, dragon queen, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest ix, dragonlord, dragons, final fantasy dissidia, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy tactics, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy vii, final fantasy X, general leo christophe, kain highwind, king bowser koopa, lavos, lufenia, lunarians, lutz, neko, noah, psaro, ricard highwind, ridley, rumors, samus aran, schala, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, tom nook, torneko taloon, tortimer, tv tropes, wart, zemus, zenith dragon, zenus |
The Toadette Principle
The Smurfette Principle is basically a reference to franchises where being male is the default, and there are very few (often only one) female characters. This character usually has stereotypical feminine accessories, and has a personality mostly consisting simply of … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Gender, Mario, Muppets, Television, Video Games | Tagged gargamel, mario kart: double dash, muppet babies, new super mario bros. u, new super mario bros. wii, papa smurf, paper mario, princess daisy, princess peach toadstool, Rosalina, scooter, skeeter, smurfette, smurfs, the great mission to rescue princess peach, toad, toadette, waluigi, wart |
A Whole Muu World
I’m sure most of you know that the American version of Super Mario Bros. 2 started out its life as a game called Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, roughly translating to Dream Factory: Heart-Pounding Panic (the “doki doki” part being … Continue reading →
Posted in Advertising, Buddhism, Language, Mario, Monsters, Religion, Star Trek, Video Games | Tagged doki doki panic, edith nesbit, fairies, fuji television, imajin, lina, mamu, mu, muu, piki and poki, subcon, subspace, super mario bros. 2, the book of beasts, wart, Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic |