1.
Super Mario
–
Super Mario is a series of platform video games created by Nintendo featuring their mascot, Mario. Alternatively called the Super Mario Bros. series or simply the Mario series, at least one Super Mario game has been released for every major Nintendo video game console and handheld. The Super Mario games follow Marios adventures in the fictional Mushroom Kingdom and he is usually joined by his brother, Luigi, and occasionally by other members of the Mario cast. As in platform games, the player runs and jumps across platforms. The games have simple plots, typically with Mario rescuing the kidnapped Princess Peach from the primary antagonist, Bowser. The first title in the series, Super Mario Bros. released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985 and these include a multitude of power-ups and items that give Mario special magic powers such as fireball-throwing and size-changing into giant and miniature sizes. The Super Mario series is part of the greater Mario franchise and this includes other video game genres as well as media such as film, television, printed media and merchandise. Over 310 million copies of games in the Super Mario series have sold worldwide, as of September 2015. The game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System and is the first side-scrolling 2D platform game to feature Mario and it established many core Mario gameplay concepts. The brothers Mario and Luigi live in the Mushroom Kingdom, where they must rescue Princess Toadstool from Bowser, the game consists of eight worlds, each with four sub-levels. Though the worlds differ in themes, the fourth sub-level is always a fortress or castle that ends with a fight against Bowser, the games immense success made it the second best-selling video game of all time after Wii Sports as of May 2013. The Lost Levels The sequel to the original Super Mario Bros. was released as Super Mario Bros.2 in Japan. It uses the original Super Mario Bros. engine with such as weather, new character movements. The main game follows the style of level progression as Super Mario Bros. with eight initial worlds each with four levels. The last levels of the eight worlds is a castle that culminates in a battle against Bowser. 2 could be delivered to America. The game later debuted outside Japan in 1993, as Super Mario Bros, the Lost Levels in the compilation titled Super Mario All-Stars for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The original Famicom version was released for the Wiis Virtual Console service in September 2007 in all regions, Super Mario Bros.2 The game was known in Japan as Super Mario Bros
2.
Mario (franchise)
–
The Mario franchise is a video game franchise published and produced by Nintendo starring the fictional Italian character Mario. The franchises other forms of media include television series and a feature film. It was originally created by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto with the arcade Donkey Kong, the games have been developed by a variety of developers including Nintendo, Hudson Soft, and AlphaDream. Most Mario games have either been released for the arcade or Nintendo video game consoles, the main series in the franchise is the Super Mario platform series, which mostly follows Marios adventures in the fictional world of the Mushroom Kingdom. These games typically rely on Marios jumping ability to him to progress through levels. Analysts suggest that by 2012, the Mario franchise was valued at over $10 billion, the franchise has spawned over 200 games of various genre. After the commercial failure of Radar Scope, Nintendos company president referred to Shigeru Miyamoto to create a game to save the company. Miyamoto came up with the idea of a game in which the character has to make his way through an obstacle course consisting of sloped platforms, ladders. Miyamoto named the game Donkey Kong, and its main protagonist Jumpman, Donkey Kong is an early example of the platform genre. In addition to presenting the goal of saving Pauline, the game gives the player a score, Points are awarded for finishing screens, leaping over obstacles, destroying objects with a hammer power-up, collecting items such as hats, parasols, and purses, and completing other tasks. Eventually Jumpmans name was internationally and permanently changed to Mario, the success of the game spawned several ports, and a sequel, Donkey Kong Jr. which is Marios only appearance as an antagonist. Donkey Kong 3 did not feature Mario, Donkey Kong has established his own unique franchise outside the Mario universe, starting with Donkey Kong Country and has spawned many sequels and spin-offs. The Mario branding was used for the first time in an arcade game, Mario Bros. which introduced Marios brother. The objective of Mario Bros. is to all of the enemies in each phase. Each phase is a series of platforms with four pipes at each corner of the screen, the mechanics of Mario Bros. involve only running and jumping. Unlike future Mario titles, players cannot jump on enemies until they are flipped over, both sides of every phase feature a mechanism that allows the player to go off-screen to the left and appear on the right, and vice versa. The game has reappeared in various forms, including as a minigame in Super Mario Bros.3 and the Super Mario Advance series. Nintendo has released several Mario and Donkey Kong LCD video games for the Game & Watch console, eleven were released between 1982 and 1994
3.
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
–
Wii is a 2009 side-scrolling platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. The game was released worldwide in November 2009, and in Japan the following month and it is the first Super Mario game to feature simultaneous multiplayer gameplay, and the first title to include Nintendos new Super Guide feature. To highlight the uniqueness of the title, Nintendo chose to use a red case instead of the traditional white. The game is also the first Mario sidescroller to have up to four player multiplayer, the game’s plot is similar to those of other side-scrolling Super Mario games. Wii follows Mario as he fights his way through Bowsers henchmen to rescue Princess Peach, Mario has access to several power-ups that help him complete his quest, including the Ice Flower, the Fire Flower, and the Starman, each giving him unique abilities. While traveling through up to nine worlds with a total of 80 levels, Mario must defeat Bowsers children, Kamek, Wii was critically and commercially successful. As of September 2016, it is the fourth best-selling game on the Wii and it received several honors, including the Best Wii Game award from the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards, IGN, and GameTrailers. A follow-up to New Super Mario Bros, Wii, entitled New Super Mario Bros. 2, was released for the Nintendo 3DS in August 2012, a direct sequel, New Super Mario Bros. U, was developed for the Wii U console and launched with the system in November 2012, Wii is a 2D platformer, some of the characters and objects are 3D polygonal renderings on 2D backgrounds, resulting in a 2. 5D effect that visually simulates 3D computer graphics. Players can play as either Mario, his brother Luigi or two Toad characters, one blue and one yellow. Controls are similar to those of New Super Mario Bros. albeit with the abilities of spinning in mid-air by shaking the Wii Remote, and picking up, carrying. The game does not feature online multiplayer, in multiplayer mode, there can be up to four players simultaneously. If players lose a life and do not have any more lives, they must use a Continue, players can also encase themselves inside the bubble by pressing the A button while a more skilled player traverses a difficult segment. If every character in a co-op session enters a bubble at the time, they will lose the level. On some levels in multiplayer mode, if one or more players do not keep up with the one in the lead, the view will pan out a bit so that the player in the rear can still be in view. If the players still do not catch up, they are dragged by the edge of the screen. On vertically scrolling courses, being left below the results in losing a life
4.
Donkey Kong (video game)
–
Donkey Kong is an arcade game released by Nintendo in 1981. It is an example of the platform game genre, as the gameplay focuses on maneuvering the main character across a series of platforms while dodging and jumping over obstacles. In the game, Mario must rescue a damsel in distress named Pauline, the hero and ape later became two of Nintendos most popular and recognizable characters. Donkey Kong is one of the most important titles from the Golden Age of Video Arcade Games, the game was the latest in a series of efforts by Nintendo to break into the North American market. Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendos president at the time, assigned the project to a video game designer named Shigeru Miyamoto. The two men broke new ground by using graphics as a means of characterization, including cutscenes to advance the games plot, regardless of initial doubts by Nintendos American staff, Donkey Kong succeeded commercially and critically in North America and Japan. Nintendo licensed the game to Coleco, who developed home console versions for numerous platforms, other companies cloned Nintendos hit and avoided royalties altogether. Miyamotos characters appeared on boxes, television cartoons, and dozens of other places. A lawsuit brought on by Universal City Studios, alleging Donkey Kong violated their trademark of King Kong, the success of Donkey Kong and Nintendos victory in the courtroom helped to position the company for video game market dominance from its release in 1981 until the late 1990s. Winning the game requires patience and the ability to accurately time Marios ascent, in addition to presenting the goal of saving Pauline, the game also gives the player a score. The player typically receives three lives with an awarded for the first 7,000 points, although this can be modified via the games built in DIP switches. One life is lost whenever Mario touches Donkey Kong or any object, falls too far through a gap or off the end of a platform. The game is divided into four different single-screen stages, each represents 25 meters of the structure Donkey Kong has climbed, one stage being 25 meters higher than the previous. The final stage occurs at 100 meters, stage one involves Mario scaling a construction site made of crooked girders and ladders while jumping over or hammering barrels and oil drums tossed by Donkey Kong. Stage two involves climbing a five-story structure of conveyor belts, each of which transport cement pans, the third stage involves the player riding elevators while avoiding bouncing springs. The final stage involves Mario removing eight rivets which support Donkey Kong, removing the final rivet causes Donkey Kong to fall and the hero to be reunited with Pauline. These four stages combine to form a level, upon completion of the fourth stage, the level then increments, and the game repeats the stages with progressive difficulty. For example, Donkey Kong begins to hurl barrels faster and sometimes diagonally, the victory music alternates between levels 1 and 2
5.
Shigeru Miyamoto
–
Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer and producer, currently serving as the co-Representative Director of Nintendo. Miyamoto originally joined Nintendo in 1977, when the company was beginning its foray into video games and his games have been seen on every Nintendo video game console, with his earliest work appearing on arcade machines in the late 1970s. Prior to the promotion, he formerly managed Nintendos Entertainment Analysis & Development software division, Miyamoto was born in the Japanese town of Sonobe, a rural town northwest of Kyoto, on November 16,1952. His parents were of modest means, and his father taught the English language, from an early age, Miyamoto began to explore the natural areas around his home. On one of expeditions, Miyamoto came upon a cave. Miyamotos expeditions into the Kyoto countryside inspired his work, particularly The Legend of Zelda. Miyamoto graduated from Kanazawa Municipal College of Industrial Arts with a degree in industrial design and he also had a love for manga and initially hoped to become a professional manga artist before considering a career in video games. He was influenced by mangas classical kishōtenketsu narrative structure, as well as Western genre television shows, the title that inspired him to enter the video game industry was the 1978 arcade hit Space Invaders. Nintendo, a relatively small Japanese company, had traditionally sold playing cards and other novelties, although it had started to branch out into toys, through a mutual friend, Miyamotos father arranged an interview with Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi. After showing some of his toy creations, Miyamoto was hired in 1977 as an apprentice in the planning department, Miyamoto went on to become the companys first artist. He helped create the art for the companys first original coin-operated arcade video game and he first helped the company develop a game with the 1980 release Radar Scope. In an effort to keep the company afloat, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi decided to convert unsold Radar Scope units into a new arcade game and he tasked Miyamoto with the conversion, about which Miyamoto has said self-deprecatingly said that no one else was available to do the work. Nintendos head engineer, Gunpei Yokoi, supervised the project, Miyamoto imagined many characters and plot concepts, but eventually settled on a love triangle between a gorilla, a carpenter, and a girl. He meant to mirror the rivalry between comic characters Bluto and Popeye for the woman Olive Oyl, although Nintendo could not gain the rights to a Popeye adaptation, Bluto evolved into an ape, a form Miyamoto claimed was nothing too evil or repulsive. This ape would be the pet of the character, a funny. Miyamoto also named Beauty and the Beast and the 1933 film King Kong as influences, Donkey Kong marked the first time that the formulation of a video games storyline preceded the actual programming, rather than simply being appended as an afterthought. Miyamoto had high hopes for his new project, but lacked the skills to program it himself, instead, he conceived the games concepts. He wanted to make the different sizes, move in different manners
6.
Shigefumi Hino
–
Shigefumi Hino is a graphics designer, game director and planner from Nintendo. He is the creator of Yoshi from the Yoshi franchise, Hino later served as the director of the Pikmin series, alongside Masamichi Abe. – Demo scene director Big Brain Academy, Wii Degree – Sub-director New Super Mario Bros, Wii – Planning Pikmin 3 – Director Super Mario Maker – Planning
7.
Voice acting
–
Voice acting is the art of doing voice-overs or providing voices to represent a character or to provide information to an audience or user. Voice acting is also done for small handheld audio games, performers are called voice actors or actresses, voice artists, or voice talent. Their roles may also involve singing, although a voice actor is sometimes cast as the characters singing voice. Voice acting is recognised in Britain as a specialized dramatic profession, Voice artists are also used to record the individual sample fragments played back by a computer in an automated announcement. The voices for animated characters are provided by voice actors, for live action productions, voice acting often involves reading the parts of computer programs, radio dispatchers, or other characters who never actually appear on screen. With a radio drama or CD drama, there is freedom in voice acting, because there is no need to match a dub to the original actors. In the context of voice acting, narration is the use of commentary to convey a story to an audience. A narrator is a character or a non-personal voice that the creator of the story develops to deliver information to the audience. The voice actor who plays the narrator is responsible for performing the lines assigned to the narrator. In traditional literary narratives, narration is a story element, in other types of narratives, such as plays, television shows, video games. One of the most common uses for voice acting is within commercial advertising, the voice actor is hired to voice a message associated with the advertisement. This has different subgenres, television, radio, cinema, the subgenres are all different styles in their own right. Voiceover used in commercial adverts also is the area of voice acting where de-breathing is used. De-breathing means artificially removing breaths from the recorded voice and this is done to stop the audience being distracted in any way from the commercial message that is being put across. Dub localization is a type of voice-over and it is the practice of voice-over translation altering a foreign language film, art film or television series by voice actors. Voice-over translation is an audiovisual translation technique, in which, unlike in Dub localization, actor voices are recorded over the audio track. This method of translation is most often used in documentaries and news reports to translate words of foreign-language interviewees, automated dialogue replacement is the process of re-recording dialogue by the original actor after the filming process to improve audio quality or reflect dialogue changes. ADR is also used to change original lines recorded on set to clarify context, improve diction or timing, in the UK, it is also called post-synchronization or post-sync
8.
Mario Teaches Typing
–
The popularity of the Super Mario series led to the release of several spin-off Mario educational games from 1988 to 1996. Nintendo had little involvement in the development of games, they were created by various other developers, including The Software Toolworks. Some of the titles were released exclusively for either the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Mario educational games were generally designed for use by children in preschool or kindergarten and focused on developing skills ranging from language and typing to geography and history. The educational games were not well-received, with critics and gamers labeling them as some of the worst Mario games ever made. Many of them have spawned Internet memes, I Am a Teacher, Super Mario Sweater is a Famicom Disk System game released in 1988 only in Japan. It was designed by Royal Industries Co. Ltd. a Japanese appliance, using the program, players could design the sweater they want and the company would make it for 2900 yen. The Mario Discovery Series is a given to five Mario educational games that were developed by The Software Toolworks. Mario is Missing. is a game for the PC, Macintosh. It was developed by The Software Toolworks and released in 1992 for PC, in 1993, the NES version was made and developed by Radical Entertainment. The gameplay was panned by critics. Mario Is Missing. is the first Mario game to feature only Luigi as the character, which did not occur again until Luigis Mansion. Bowser sets up a castle in Antarctica, and plans to use many hair dryers from Hafta Havit and he sends Koopas to cities across Earth to steal artifacts to fund his operation. Mario, Luigi and Yoshi travel to Bowsers castle to stop him, Luigi is hesitant to go in, so Mario goes by himself and is kidnapped by Bowser, prompting Luigi to rescue him. This plot is not explicitly included in the Super NES version, Luigi progresses through the game by completing levels in Bowsers castle, each floor is guarded by one Koopaling and contains a number of pipes which transport Luigi to a city containing Koopas. Once a floor is completed, Luigi must defeat the Koopaling guarding that floor to go ahead to the next, the main gameplay consists of moving around a city in side-scrolling manner while jumping on Koopas to collect stolen artifacts. Luigi then must secure the city by taking these artifacts to their respective locations, once an artifact is returned, the landmark is reopened. During the quest to return all three artifacts to their proper landmarks, Luigi must determine his location to receive the assistance of Yoshi by using a device called the Globulator. If Luigi takes Yoshi to the location, he can ride him for double the walking and running speed
9.
Hotel Mario
–
Hotel Mario is a computer puzzle game developed by Fantasy Factory and published by Philips Interactive Media and Nintendo for the Philips CD-i in 1994. The primary character of the game is Mario, who must find Princess Toadstool by going through seven Koopa hotels in the Mushroom Kingdom, every hotel is divided into multiple stages, and the objective is to close all doors on each stage. Defeating a Koopaling on the final stage takes the player to the following building. After Nintendo decided not to have Sony create an add-on for the Super Famicom/Super NES, controlling Mario, or his brother Luigi in two-player mode, the player has to complete all stages of the seven hotels in the game. The first six hotels contain 10 stages, and the last contains 15 stages, progressing from one stage to the next requires the player to shut every door shown in stage, without exceeding a given time limit. The purpose of closing the doors to progress is not explained, elevators, which operate differently depending on the hotel, enable the player to go between the five floors of the stage. The faster a stage is cleared, the points will be given to the player. Every stage has its own title screen via which the game can be saved, the screens are also used to enter previously played hotel stages and the map of the Mushroom Kingdom, which allows the player to access any visited hotel. While trying to close the doors, the player must avoid certain hazards, Mario will lose a life if he touches an enemy, runs out of time, runs off the edge of the floor he is on, or if all the doors are open. Enemies in the game are mostly regular Mario series creatures, such as Goombas, Koopas, Boos, the opponent on the last stage of each hotel is one of the Koopalings, who each use different methods to attack Mario. In his normal state, Mario can tolerate one hit from an enemy, by opening doors the player can find power-ups which grant different abilities. A Super Mushroom transforms Mario into Super Mario, with glowing overalls, if the player finds another mushroom while Mario is in the Super Mario form, the item turns into a Fire Flower. When grabbing it, Mario becomes Fire Mario and can throw fireballs to eliminate enemies, a 1-up mushroom known as Extra Mario Mushroom or Toad can only be found by Fire Mario. Another way to earn a life is collecting 30 coins. The player can obtain a Star Man, which makes Mario temporarily able to knock any enemy off the screen by simply touching them. The game takes place in the Mushroom Kingdom, which Bowser has turned into a resort for the use of himself and his children. Each hotel in the area is guarded by one of the Koopalings, the hotels represent different building types with various locations, including a tree, a mine and a cloud. Having been invited for a picnic by Princess Toadstool, Mario, at the entrance, however, they find a message from Bowser
10.
Charles Martinet
–
Charles Martinet is an American actor and voice actor. He is best known for voicing Mario in the Super Mario video game series, Martinet is of French descent and speaks fluent French and Spanish. His family moved to Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain when he was 12 years old and he attended the American School of Paris and graduated in 1974. Martinet attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he intended to study international law. His senior year, he decided to discontinue his studies after a tutor told him to regurgitate information hed written in his book, a friend suggested to him to take acting classes to combat his fear of public speaking. His first role was a monologue from the Spoon River Anthology, eventually, Martinet earned an apprenticeship at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. After training with the Berkeley Rep for several years, Martinet went to London to attend the Drama Studio London, upon returning to California he joined the Berkeley Reparatory Theatre. He went on to become a member of the San Jose Repertory Theatre for four years. This system was called Mario in Real-Time or MIRT and was developed by Pasadena based SimGraphics and this digital puppetry, with Martinets comic performance, was a novelty at the time. Martinet earned the job when, one day, he was told by his friend there was going to be an audition at a trade show in which you talk to people as a plumber. He went to the audition at the last minute as the directors were already putting away their equipment. Charles Martinet walked in and asked, Can I please read for this, the directors let him audition and told him, Youre an Italian plumber from Brooklyn. At first Martinet planned to talk like a stereotypical Italian American with a deep and he then thought to himself that it would be too harsh for children to hear, so he made it more soft-hearted and friendly, resulting in what Marios voice is today. Martinet has also stated that he kept on talking with his Mario voice until the tape ran out. He says that Petruchio from William Shakespeares Taming of the Shrew was an inspiration for his portrayal of Mario, Martinets video game voice over debut was as Mario in the 1995 Windows release of Interplays game Marios FUNdamentals. However, most were first exposed to Marios voice in the landmark 1996 game Super Mario 64, during the recording session, he and a few developers wondered what Mario would do when the player leaves him alone. In the end, Martinet came up with the idea that Mario would dream of pasta during his sleep, ahhh spaghetti, ahhh ravioli, ahhh mamma mia. when Mario is in his second sleeping position. He has voiced Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, Toadsworth, Metal Mario, Shadow Mario, Piantas, Mini-Mario Toys, Baby Mario, Baby Luigi and he also voiced the enemies Wart, Mouser, Tryclyde, and Clawgrip in Super Mario Advance
11.
Peter Cullen
–
Peter Claver Cullen is a Canadian voice actor. He also voiced Monterey Jack in Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers from season one through some of season two, starting in 2007, Peter Cullen has reprised his role as Optimus Prime in related Transformers media, starting with the first live-action film. Cullen was born on July 28,1941 in Montreal, Quebec to Henry L. and he has three siblings, Michaela, Sonny, and Larry. Cullen attended Regiopolis-Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School and he is a member of the first graduating class of the National Theatre School of Canada, which graduated in 1963. His brother, Larry Cullen, was a retired Captain in the United States Marine Corps, Cullen played a French-Canadian astronaut character named Commander Bi Bi Latuque alongside Ted Zeigler for the 1969 childrens show, The Buddies on CFCF-TV in Montreal. He honed his skills by working as a radio announcer, notably in his home town of Montreal on MOR station CKGM doing the overnight. From 1967-69, he was the announcer for Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, from 1971-74, he, Zeigler and Billy Van were series regulars on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. In 1974, Cullen was the announcer and a regular on The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show. He lent his voice to a character in the album The Story of Halloween Horror in 1977, real heroes dont yell and act tough, they are tough enough to be gentle, so control yourself. Cullen later learned from his agent, Steve Tisherman, that he not only won the part of Prime, but also, to his surprise, the role of Ironhide as well, which he saw as a home run. He has stated that Optimus is his voice role, and that he based the voice of the Autobot leader on his older brother Larry. When he came home, I could see a change and he was quieter and he was a man and a hero to me, says the actor. I watched him and listened to him, id never had an opportunity to do a superhero, and when that came, just came right out of me and I sounded like Optimus. The public backlash over Optimus death surprised producers greatly, children were leaving the theaters because of the characters death. The writers temporarily revived the character for an episode in Season 3 called Dark Awakening. Initially, this was intended to be his final appearance, but after fan requests continued, The Return of Optimus Prime, the original ending of Dark Awakening was altered in reruns to include a teaser about the return of the character. He is contractually obligated to voice Optimus in at least one more sequel and his performance in the premiere season of Transformers, Prime earned him a nomination for a 2011 Daytime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program category. In the 1980s and the 1990s, Cullen appeared on a number of television shows. I and he also had a voice part in the 1984 motion picture Gremlins, as a gremlin, and the first season of the 2008 Knight Rider series as KARR
12.
Saturday Supercade
–
Saturday Supercade is an animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Ruby-Spears Productions. It ran for two seasons on CBS beginning in 1983, each episode is composed of several shorter segments featuring video game characters from the golden age of video arcade games. Pitfall and Q*bert rotated weekly while the three were weekly. Kangaroo with friends and the Monkey Business Gang, frogger is an ace reporter of the swamp who works at the Swamp Gazette. He and his friends Shellshock Shelly Turtle and Fanny Frog go out in search of stories to publish in the swamps newspapers. Frogger also has to deal with his boss and editor-in-chief Tex Toadwalker. As in the game, he gets flattened or has an encounter with an alligator. He is on the lam, and Mario and Pauline are chasing the ape, as with the original game, Donkey Kong will often grab Pauline, and Mario has to save her. Plots typically centered on them encountering crime with the villains conning the slow-witted Donkey Kong into doing their work and Mario and Pauline exposing the truth. After Mario and Pauline reveal the truth to Donkey Kong, the three of them team up to stop the plans followed by Donkey Kong evading Mario. Features both block-hopping scenes, swearing bubbles and occasional flying disc, all from the original game, new to the cartoon was Q*berts use of slippy-doos, a black ball projectile which he loaded and fired through his nose, producing an oil slick wherever the balls splattered. Slick and Sam are also featured and he befriends a greaser nicknamed Bones who has a motorcycle and offers to help Junior by finding his dad together. Donkey Kong Jrs catchphrase is Monkey muscle, which he tells to himself and Bones to inspire self-confidence. Bones often serves as the voice of reason when Donkey Kong Jr. bites off more than he can chew, quick Claw and Rhonda later appeared in Pitfall II, Lost Caverns. With officer Kimberly, he works for Space Marshall Vaughn to keep the peace in the universe and they fight the evil alien commander Borf and keep him from invading Earth. Ace and Kim try to keep his situation secret and pretend that Dexter is Kims little brother. It was aired late night on Cartoon Network in the late 1990s, cute Groots Cosmic Camp Catastrophe Dangerous Decoy Moon Missile Madness Perilous Partners Frozen in Fear Age Ray Riot Wanted, Dexter. The Monkeybiz Gang would cause trouble by trying to escape from the zoo, friendly Nancy Cartwright - Kimberly Peter Cullen - Mario Ted Field Sr. J
13.
Lou Albano
–
Louis Vincent Captain Lou Albano was an Italian American professional wrestler, manager and actor. He was active as a wrestler from 1953 until 1969 before becoming a manager until 1995. Over the course of his 42-year career Albano guided 15 different tag teams, Albano was one of the Triumvirate of Terror, a threesome of nefarious WWF managers which included The Grand Wizard of Wrestling and Freddie Blassie. The trio was a fixture in the company for a decade until The Grand Wizards death in 1983, a unique showman, with an elongated beard, rubber band facial piercings, and loud outfits, Albano was the forefather of the 1980s Rock n Wrestling Connection. Collaborating with Cyndi Lauper, Albano helped usher in wrestlings crossover success with a mainstream audience, capitalizing on his success, he later ventured into Hollywood with various television, film, and music projects. He became well-known to a new generation of fans as the actor, Albanos parents, Carmen Louis Albano and Eleanor Albano née Morrone, were of Italian heritage but both born in the United States. Eleanor was a concert pianist who had performed at Carnegie Hall. Her brother, a physician, introduced her to Carmen in the 1930s, after marrying, they temporarily relocated to Italy while Carmen pursued his medical degree at the University of Bari. He later co-patented a forceps instrument to assist in breech birth deliveries, Louis Albano was born in Italy when his father had three months remaining at the university. He was baptized in the Vatican, and his parents shortly thereafter returned to the New York City area, Lou was one of nine children, of whom five lived to adulthood. The family settled in the Mount Vernon area, Lou attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, New York, where he competed in track and field, and finally rose to the position of captain of the football team. It was this rank that later inspired his wrestling moniker, Captain Lou Albano and his skills were such that he received 32 offers of full scholarship from universities around the country, and he chose the University of Tennessee on the strength of their football team. Here, Albano was teammates with the likes of Darris McCord, Doug Atkins, Albano had conflicts with the dean due to poor behavior and was expelled after attempting to cheat on a final exam. He then joined the United States Army, but due to a childhood injury exacerbated by his football days, in 1953, Albano married his high school sweetheart, Geraldine Tango. The marriage lasted 56 years, until his death, Albano has been noted by several others for his faithfulness to his wife, a rare characteristic in the on-the-road world of 1970s and 1980s professional wrestling. Although Albanos father, retired from medicine, wanted to open an insurance agency with his son, a distant cousin and family friend, Lou Duva, introduced Albano to Willie Gilzenberg, a boxing promoter who later became the first titular president of the WWWF. Gilzenberg, noting Albanos relatively short stature, instead encouraged him to enter wrestling, Gilzenberg asked Soldier Barry to help train Albano, and in 1952, the two began doing house shows in the New York area. Albano was originally seen as a pretty boy, and wrestled as the babyface Leaping Lou Albano, after a non-wrestling injury caused a gash on his forehead, he purposefully did not allow the scar to heal, and the minor disfigurement allowed him to turn heel
14.
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
–
Super Show. is an American television series based upon Nintendos Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros.2. It is the first of three TV shows based on the game series, with the other being The Adventures of Super Mario Bros.3. It was originally broadcast via syndication from September 4,1989 to December 1,1989. The Family Channel picked up the series on September 23,1991, the show was produced by DiC Animation and was distributed by Viacom Enterprises in association with Nintendo of America, Inc. DHX Media, the company of Cookie Jar Entertainment and DiC, is the current distributor. The first and last parts of each episode were live segments which showed Mario and Luigi and it appears that the live segments take place before Mario and Luigi went to the Mushroom Kingdom. There was also another episode with Cassandra Peterson as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, in one episode, Lou Albano portrays himself, forcing his regular character to leave the scene in order for himself to appear. In the episode in question, pop star Cyndi Lauper states shes looking for Lou Albano because hes missing, Mario exclaims how much he wants to meet Lou, and later Lou appears as himself supposedly while Marios out shopping for pizza. As a result, Luigi gets to meet Lou, but Mario does not, Lou Albano and Danny Wells also once played female versions of themselves, Marianne and Luigeena, and also two hillbilly cousins, named Mario Joe and Luigi Bob. Each Super Mario Bros. cartoon served as the segment of every show, following the introduction. The cartoon featured characters and situations based upon the NES games Super Mario Bros.2, as well as several sound effects and musical cues from the two games. Each episode featured Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool defending the Mushroom Kingdom from the reptilian villain King Koopa, getting into the spirit of these parodies, Koopa often used alter egos fitting the current theme. The theme song for the cartoon segments revealed that the Super Mario Brothers were accidentally warped into the Mushroom Kingdom while working on a drain in Brooklyn. After traveling via the drain, the Super Mario Brothers defeated King Koopas Koopa Troopas, saved Princess Toadstool. At the beginning of every segment, Mario recites an entry into his Plumbers Log. When Mario and Luigi are in danger, they often do their Patty-Cake routine, Patty-cake, Patty-cake, gimme Pasta power as fast as you can. The Super Mario Bros. cartoons aired four days a week, on every Friday episode of The Super Mario Bros. Scenes from each episode of the show were shown during the segments on the preceding Super Mario Bros
15.
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
–
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros.3 is an American animated television series based on the video game Super Mario Bros.3. It aired on NBC with Captain N, The Game Master in a programming block titled Captain N & The Adventures of Super Mario Bros.3 from September 8,1990 to December 1,1990. It is the second of the three TV shows based on the game, with the others being The Super Mario Bros. Super Show and Super Mario World, DIC Entertainment produced this series while Nintendo provided the characters and power-ups. In 1 July 2015, the show was re-released to Steam by Cinedigm, the Adventures of Super Mario Bros.3 focuses on Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool, who reside in the Mushroom World. Most of the episodes revolve around the four characters efforts to prevent the attacks made by King Koopa, the animation was done by Sei Young Animation Co. Ltd. however this show was co-produced by Italian studio Reteitalia S. P. A. Hence the slight differences in character design, since the show was based on Super Mario Bros. 3, the enemies and power-ups were also seen in the show, in addition to being more faithful to the Mario gameplay, the series was given an established sense of continuity, something that the previous series lacked. The show was known for having many of its episodes set in the real world. Episodes took place in such as London, Paris, Venice, New York City, Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles and even Washington. One memorable episode entitled 7 Continents for 7 Koopas was about the Koopalings invading each of the seven continents. This cartoon was shown in the hour-long Captain N and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros.3 programming block along with the second season of Captain N. All further airings of the series separated it from Captain N when Weekend Today came on the air in 1992 and this series is noted for its different naming and age scheme for the Koopalings. This was due to the going into production before official names were given in the game. Super Show and Super Mario World, Luigi is the character to appear in all episodes. A DVD featuring one episode plus two Heathcliff episodes was released as a prize in Golden Grahams cereal in 2004, due to the success of the DVD sets of The Super Mario Bros. Factory and Vivendi Entertainment released a box set of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. NCircle Entertainment has also released the series in 4 volumes as well as the Collectors Edition of the complete series, the original broadcast version of Adventures of Super Mario Bros.3 features covers of licensed songs on five episodes and two Milli Vanilli songs on one episode
16.
Super Mario World (TV series)
–
Super Mario World is an American animated musical comedy television series loosely based on the Super NES video game of the same name. It is the animated series based on the Mario video game series. Super Show. and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros.3, unlike its two predecessors, this series does not feature Toad and takes place in Dinosaur World. Thirteen episodes of the show were aired, as part of a block with Captain N, just like The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, the show is produced by DIC Entertainment and the Italian studio Reteitalia, S. p. A. in association with Nintendo of America, Inc. who licensed the characters and power-ups from the game to DiC. King Koopa and the Koopalings were also around, having followed the Super Mario Bros. unlike in the game, Dinosaur Land was depicted as being populated with cavepeople, including a pre-adolescent caveboy named Oogtar, who replaced the role of Toad. Some episodes revolved around Mario trying to introduce a modern invention to the cavepeople in an attempt to make their lives easier and it is unclear whether the characters had traveled back in time, or if Dinosaur Land was simply a lost valley-esque island that the characters had come to. The show was aired on Saturday mornings on NBC in the 1991-92 season. It was featured in a time slot with a shortened version of Captain N, The Game Master. Episodes of Super Mario World were later shown as part of the syndication package Captain N, afterwards, the series was split up from Captain N altogether and shown in time-compressed reruns on as part of Mario All-Stars on Family Channel, and later USA Network. In the United Kingdom, however, the show was still broadcast as Captain N & The New Super Mario World, meanwhile, two PAL tapes were released in the United Kingdom. More recently, the series was released on DVD in Australia and this series is the most short-lived of the three American Mario animated series. The series takes place in Dinosaur World, rather than in Dinosaur Land, in addition, Yoshis Island is populated predominantly with cavemen instead of Yoshis. Several names were changed from the game as well, the Forest of Illusion was called the Enchanted Forest, furthermore, enemies featured in the game were rarely called by their in-game names on the show, Bowser was called King Koopa. Furthermore, his castle says KOOPA instead of BOWSER, also, Koopas are called Troopas, and Chargin Chucks are called Football players. As in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros,3, the Koopalings were still referred to by their nicknames. King Koopa still had his appearance from the previous two cartoons. Mario, Luigi and Princess Toadstool kept their NES designs, another notable fact was that when Yoshi hatched, the dinosaur was not born with his red shell, as revealed when Luigi told the story of Yoshis birth in the final episode, Mama Luigi
17.
Japanese language
–
Japanese is an East Asian language spoken by about 125 million speakers, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language. It is a member of the Japonic language family, whose relation to language groups, particularly to Korean. Little is known of the prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century recorded a few Japanese words, during the Heian period, Chinese had considerable influence on the vocabulary and phonology of Old Japanese. Late Middle Japanese saw changes in features that brought it closer to the modern language, the standard dialect moved from the Kansai region to the Edo region in the Early Modern Japanese period. Following the end in 1853 of Japans self-imposed isolation, the flow of loanwords from European languages increased significantly, English loanwords in particular have become frequent, and Japanese words from English roots have proliferated. Japanese is an agglutinative, mora-timed language with simple phonotactics, a vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length. Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words, sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or emphatic impact, or make questions. Nouns have no number or gender, and there are no articles. Verbs are conjugated, primarily for tense and voice, but not person, Japanese equivalents of adjectives are also conjugated. Japanese has a system of honorifics with verb forms and vocabulary to indicate the relative status of the speaker, the listener. Japanese has no relationship with Chinese, but it makes extensive use of Chinese characters, or kanji, in its writing system. Along with kanji, the Japanese writing system uses two syllabic scripts, hiragana and katakana. Latin script is used in a fashion, such as for imported acronyms. Very little is known about the Japanese of this period, Old Japanese is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language. Through the spread of Buddhism, the Chinese writing system was imported to Japan, the earliest texts found in Japan are written in Classical Chinese, but they may have been meant to be read as Japanese by the kanbun method. Some of these Chinese texts show the influences of Japanese grammar, in these hybrid texts, Chinese characters are also occasionally used phonetically to represent Japanese particles. The earliest text, the Kojiki, dates to the early 8th century, the end of Old Japanese coincides with the end of the Nara period in 794
18.
Amada Anime Series: Super Mario Bros.
–
The Mario media franchise extends out of video games into non-game media. Mario and themes related to the franchise have appeared in shows, anime, films, comics and manga, merchandise. Saturday Supercade was a television series produced for Saturday mornings by Ruby-Spears Productions. It ran for two seasons on CBS, beginning in 1983, each episode comprised several shorter segments featuring video game characters from the Golden Age of Arcade Games. Donkey Kong, Mario and Pauline were featured in the show, Super Show. is the first American TV series based on the Mario NES games. It was broadcast in syndication from September 4 to December 1,1989, the show was produced by DIC Entertainment and was distributed for syndicated television by Viacom Enterprises. King Koopas Kool Kartoons was a live action television show broadcast in Southern California during the holiday season of 1989/1990. The show starred King Koopa, the main antagonist of the Mario series, the 30-minute program was originally broadcast during the after-school afternoon time-slots on Los Angeles-based KTTV Fox 11. The Adventures of Super Mario Bros.3 is the second TV series based on the Mario NES games and it aired on NBC from September 8 to December 1,1990. Based on the Super Mario Bros.3 video game, the cartoon shows Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool and Toad fighting against Bowser and his Koopalings, like the previous Mario cartoon series, the animation was done by Sei Young Animation Co. Ltd, however this show was co-produced by Reteitalia S. P. A, hence the slight differences in character design. Super Mario Challenge was a show aired on The Childrens Channel. It ran from 1990 to 1991 and aired at 4,30 p. m. every weekday, the presenter, John Lenahan, was a lookalike of Mario, and dressed in his clothes. Two guest players had to do tasks, all of which involved playing the Mario video games Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros.2 and, after its release in 1991, Super Mario Bros.3. Rounds included challenges to see which player could complete a level in the fastest time, Super Mario World is an animated television series based on the SNES video game of the same name. It is the third and currently last Saturday morning cartoon based on the Mario series, the show was originally aired on Saturday mornings on NBC in the 1991–92 season. It was featured in a time slot with a shortened version of Captain N. Episodes of Super Mario World were later shown as part of the syndication package Captain N, afterwards, the series was split from Captain N altogether and shown in time-compressed reruns on Mario All-Stars
19.
Takeshi Aono
–
Takeshi Aono was a Japanese voice actor and actor from Asahikawa, Hokkaidō. He was attached to Aoni Production at the time of his death and he graduated from Hokkaidō Asahikawa Higashi High School. Aono was most known for the roles of Shiro Sanada, Rihaku, Nurarihyon, Piccolo Daimao and Kami-sama, Kumahachi Kumada, Dakuan, Deathsaurus, Jinpachi Mishima, Aono was also known to appear in the first ten One Piece movies. He is also known to gamers as the voice of the diabolical Dr. Wily in the PlayStation-era Mega Man games, Aono is mostly remembered for his harsh voice for many Japanese anime series. In May 2010, Aono checked into a hospital for an aortic dissection and suffered a stroke shortly thereafter and his ongoing roles were replaced with other voice actors. At about 4,38 pm on April 9,2012, Aono was 75 years old at the time of his death. Ippatsuman The Mysterious Cities of Gold Pataliro, kimengumi 1987 Fist of the North Star 2 Tsuide ni Tonchinkan Bikkuriman 1988 Oishinbo Kiteretsu Daihyakka Hello. Lady Lynn 1989 Kariage-kun Jungle Emperor Soreike, ryoma Crayon Shin-chan Super Jigan Tetsujin 28 FX Hime-chans Ribbon Tenchi Muyo. 1993 Legend of the Swordmaster Yaiba Ghost Sweeper Mikami Battle Tycoon, Flash Hiders SFX Battle Spirits, the Night Before Christmas 1995 Gulliver Boy Neighborhood Story Chibi Maruko-chan Tenchi Muyo. Slump Haunted Junction Tenchi in Tokyo 1998 Shikuu Tenshou Nazca Outlaw Star Sentimental Journey Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden Master Keaton Yu-Gi-Oh, fumoffu Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo 2004 Aqua Kids Ojarumaru Girls Bravo, first season Zoids Fuzors Black Jack Yu-Gi-Oh. The Underground Space Choujin Crayon Shin-chan, Action Kamen vs. in Love Tenchi Muyō
20.
Mario Paint
–
Mario Paint is a video game released in 1992 by Nintendo for use with the Super NES. It is packaged with the Super NES Mouse peripheral, aside from being a basic drawing utility, Mario Paint allows the user to make custom stamps pixel-by-pixel. Several publications, such as Nintendo Power, released guides on how to create iconic Nintendo related stamps for use within Mario Paint, in addition to just creating static pictures, a user can make simple looping animations which can then be set to music created in the music generator. In addition, the features include 60 different textures and patterns,75 different stamps,15 customizable stamps. Mario Paint contains a fly-swatting mini-game, Gnat Attack, which is an action game that takes full advantage of the mouse peripheral. The player controls a gloved hand holding a flyswatter, which must swat flying insects on the screen, there are three levels, each with 100 insects and a boss. When you defeat the last boss it takes you back to level one, there is no final level or reward, as the game will loop endlessly. The title screen for Mario Paint is an Easter egg mini-game, the user is able to click each letter in the title to trigger a certain action. Certain letters cause the music to change, have Yoshi run by on screen, make Mario shrink and grow, allow the user to paint the background. A downloadable version was released in Japan via the Satellaview broadcast service in 1997, titled Mario Paint, BS Edition, this version was modified to use a standard controller without the need of a mouse device. A sequel to Mario Paint was titled Mario Paint 64 in development, Nintendo had commissioned the joint developer Software Creations, who described the games original 1995 design idea as a sequel to Mario Paint in 3D for the N64. Paint Studio has been described by IGN and Nintendo World Report respectively, as being Mario Paints direct follow-up, likewise bundled with its systems mouse, Paint Studio includes minigames such as a fly swatting game reminiscent of that in Mario Paint. Calling Mario Paint perhaps the most ingenious and inspired idea Nintendo ever came up with for a product, in 2006, it was rated the 162nd best game made on a Nintendo system in Nintendo Powers Top 200 Games list. In 2014, IGN ranked it as the 105th best Nintendo game in its list of The Top 125 Nintendo Games of All Time. US Gamer calls Mario Paint an era-appropriate solution to graphics programs on expensive PCs which is at least somewhat responsible for our modern era of 2D indie throwback games, is engineered to make the act of creation fun in and of itself, even if youre just aimlessly doodling. Prominent video game developers have cited Mario Paint as an inspiration, while several staff members of the development team cited it as the game that taught them the joy of developing video games. Allows players to record notes via the DS microphone, and apply noises and animals sounds to them, uses a paint program based upon the idea of Mario Paint when the player makes a comic or graphics for their custom microgame. When Mario Paint is entered as the name for a microgame or comic, some of Mario Paints sound effects and musical instruments appear in this game
21.
Super Mario All-Stars
–
The game contains enhanced remakes of Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels, the latter of which was the original Japanese version of Super Mario Bros.2 which was never released outside Japan prior to this compilation. The games are all developed to take advantage of the Super NES hardware, featuring updated graphics and sounds, a second version of the compilation, which includes Super Mario World as a playable title, was released outside Japan in December 1994. The original 1993 version of Super Mario All-Stars was ported as a Wii disc game in 2010 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. In 2016, Nintendo of America issued a re-print of the same Wii disc game release, sans bundle bonuses, the Lost Levels, Super Mario Bros. 2, and Super Mario Bros.3. are fixed, the four games each feature enhanced 16-bit graphics and updated soundtracks to take advantage of the Super NES hardware, including parallax scrolling. All four games offer a feature, which the original games lacked, allowing the player to save progress. Up to four individual save files can be stored for each game, the games also allow the player to customize control configuration, allowing the jump and dash actions to be mapped to different buttons on the Super NES controller. This version features Super Mario World as a playable game. Super Mario World is nearly identical to the version, however. In 2010, Super Mario All-Stars was ported to the Wii and it was released in Japan on October 21,2010 and in all other regions in December 2010 on Wii optical disc. The game disc contains an emulation of the original SNES ROM image, with support for the Wii Remote, Classic Controller, a 32-page booklet detailing the history of the Super Mario franchise and an audio CD containing music from each Super Mario game are bundled with the game disc. Nintendo sold 307,755 copies in the games first week, the 25th Anniversary Edition has since seen 2.24 million units sold worldwide. The game was successful and well-received upon release and eventually became a Players Choice Million Seller. Prior to May 31,1994, Super Mario All-Stars was available as a promotion by Nintendo, the proof of purchase and $3.50 USD—to cover postage and handling—was required to be mailed into Nintendo and Super Mario All-Stars was sent out to the buyer. The Wii version received mixed reviews, critics such as IGN criticized it for being a straight port from the original SNES version but praised it for being The same classic games we remember. Club gave the Wii version an F, saying that the materials included with the game were disappointing. Official website Super Mario All-Stars at MobyGames
22.
Bob Hoskins
–
Robert William Bob Hoskins was an English actor. He also directed two feature films and he was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same role. In 2009, Hoskins won an International Emmy Award for Best Actor for his appearance on the BBC One drama The Street, in 2012, Hoskins retired from acting due to his battle with Parkinsons disease, and he died from pneumonia on 29 April 2014, at age 71. Hoskins was born in Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk, on 26 October 1942 to Robert Hoskins, a bookkeeper and lorry driver, and Elsie Hoskins, from two weeks old, he was brought up in Finsbury Park, London. He left school at the age of 15 with a single O-Level and worked as a porter, lorry driver and he started on a 3-year accountancy course but dropped out. In 1968, Hoskins acting career began at the Victoria Theatre and he portrayed a servant named Peter in a production of Romeo and Juliet. In 1969, he worked at the Unity Theatre in London, One evening, he was waiting in the Unity Theatre bar for his friend, the actor Roger Frost, to finish an audition. Whilst drinking at the bar, he was given a script and told and he got the part, with Frost ending up his understudy. Frost recalled, Bob was a natural and he just got up on stage and was brilliant. His first major role was in On the Move, an educational series intended to tackle adult illiteracy, in which he portrayed Alf Hunt. According to eventual producer George Auckland, up to 17 million people watched the series, Hoskins breakthrough television role came in the original BBC version of Dennis Potters innovative 6-part fantasy-drama Pennies from Heaven as adulterous sheet music salesman Arthur Parker. Later, he portrayed Iago in Jonathan Millers BBC Television Shakespeare production of Othello and he also delivered comic turns in Terry Gilliams Brazil and as Mario in Super Mario Bros. He had a role as Pink Floyds manager in The Wall. He was slated to be a replacement in The Untouchables if Robert De Niro had not decided to portray Al Capone. In 1988, Hoskins played private investigator Eddie Valiant in the Disney, Touchstone, Hoskins was nominated for a Golden Globe award for this performance and won a British Evening Standard award. He returned to television in productions for the BBC, including Flickers, David Copperfield as Wilkins Micawber and he portrayed Nikita Khrushchev as a political commissar in Enemy at the Gates. Hoskins received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Mrs Henderson Presents, Hoskins also directed two films, both of which he starred in, The Raggedy Rawney and Rainbow. In 2009, he made a return to television in Jimmy McGoverns drama serial The Street, for this role, he received his only Emmy when he won Best Actor at the 2010 International Emmys
23.
Super Mario Bros. (film)
–
Super Mario Bros. was shot in both New York City and North Carolina on a budget of $48 million. The film was released on May 28,1993, in the United States and was both critically and commercially, receiving criticism for its storyline, characters and dialogue. However, the film was nominated for two Saturn Awards, years later, however, it has spawned a fan-made website, a fan-made sequel comic, and even a Blu-ray release in the United Kingdom. Sixty-five million years ago, a meteorite crashes into the Earth, killing the dinosaurs, the surviving dinosaurs cross over into this new dimension and evolve into a humanoid race. Later, Luigi falls in love with an orphaned NYU student named Daisy, after a date, Daisy takes Luigi back to the bridge only to witness one of Scapellis men sabotaging it by leaving the water pipes open. Unable to fix the flooding, Luigi and Daisy rush back to his apartment where they inform Mario about the incident, the trio returns to the flooding where the Mario Bros. manage to fix it but are knocked unconscious by Iggy and Spike, who proceed to capture Daisy. Moments later, Mario and Luigi awaken and head deeper into the caves following Daisys screams and it turns out that Iggy and Spike are henchmen of the other worlds germophobic and obsessive–compulsive dictator, King Koopa, who descended from the most revered dinosaur, the Tyrannosaurus Rex. The Mario Bros. realize they didnt bring Daisys rock, a fragment which Koopa is trying to get in order to merge his world with the real world. It is then revealed that Daisy is the long-lost Princess of the other dimension, when Koopa overthrew Daisys father, her mother took her to Brooklyn using the inter-dimensional portal. The portal was destroyed, killing Daisys mother in the process. Upon hearing this, Koopa sends Spike and Iggy to find both Daisy and the rock to merge the dimensions and make him dictator of both worlds. However, after Koopa subjects them to one of his experiments to make them intelligent, Spike and Iggy realize Koopas evil intentions. Koopa believes only Daisy can merge the worlds, but the Mario Bros. are also from a different place, eventually, the Mario Bros. rescue Daisy with the help of Toad, a good-natured guitarist who was punished by Koopa for performing music that protests his reign. Eventually, the two merge and Koopa turns Scapelli into a chimpanzee before going after Mario, but Luigi and Daisy bring back the rock. In Dinohattan, Mario confronts Koopa and eventually defeats him when he and Luigi fire their guns at Koopa. With Daisys father restored after Koopas defeat, he reclaims control over the kingdom, the citizens celebrate and immediately destroy anything under Koopas influence. Heartbroken, Luigi kisses Daisy goodbye as he and Mario return home to Brooklyn, three weeks later, the Mario Bros. are getting ready for dinner when their story comes on the news and the anchorman says they should be called the Super Mario Bros. Daisy then arrives and asks the Mario Bros. to help her and says, in a post-credits scene, two Japanese business executives propose making a video game based on Iggy and Spike, who decide on the title The Super Koopa Cousins
24.
John Lenahan
–
John Lenahan is an American illusionist and entertainer resident in the UK since 1984. A successful corporate entertainer, he came to fame as a result of a 1994 appearance on the BBC One show How Do They Do That. Explaining the sleight of hand trick known as Three-card Monte, as a result of which he became the first person in 85 years to be expelled from The Magic Circle. His subsequent TV appearances have included his own 1997 series for BBC Two, Stuff the White Rabbit, and he is a former holder of the title Street Magician of the Year. Lenahan also provided the voice of Talkie Toaster in the first series of Red Dwarf, the 1987 series featured Lenahan travelling across the UK and finding out about the lives and traditions of British people. Lenahans first novel, Shadowmagic, was released on podiobooks. com by John himself. Official website John Lenahan at the Internet Movie Database Podiobooks, Shadowmagic
25.
Hepburn romanization
–
The system was originally proposed by the Romanization Club in 1885. The revised edition by Romaji-Hirome-kai in 1908 is called standard style romanization, Hepburn is based on English phonology and has competed with the alternative Nihon-shiki romanization, which was developed in Japan as a replacement of Japanese script. In 1930, a Special Romanization Study Commission was appointed to compare the two, the ordinance was temporarily overturned by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers during the Occupation of Japan, but was reissued in 1954. In 1972, a version of Hepburn was codified as ANSI standard Z39. 11-1972. It was proposed in 1989 as a draft for ISO3602, the ANSI Z39. 11-1972 standard was consequently deprecated on October 6,1994. As of 1978, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, in addition The Japan Times, the Japan Travel Bureau, and many other private organizations used Hepburn instead of Kunrei-shiki. The National Diet Library used Kunrei-shiki, although Hepburn is not a government standard, some government agencies mandate it. In many other areas where it de jure status, Hepburn remains the de facto standard. Signs and notices in city offices and police stations, at shrines, temples, English-language newspapers and media use the simplified form of Hepburn. Cities and prefectures use it in information for English-speaking residents and visitors, official tourism information put out by the government uses it, as do guidebooks, local and foreign, on Japan. Many students of Japanese as a foreign language learn Hepburn, there are many variants of Hepburn romanization. The two most common styles are, Traditional Hepburn, as defined in various editions of Hepburns dictionary and this variant is characterized by the rendering of syllabic n as m before the consonants b, m and p, e. g. Shimbashi for 新橋. Modified Hepburn, also known as Revised Hepburn, in which the rendering of syllabic n as m before certain consonants is no longer used, in Japan itself, there are some variants officially mandated for various uses, Railway Standard, which follows the Hyōjun-shiki Rōmaji. All JR railways and other major railways use this type for station names, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Standard, which follows the modified Hepburn style. This is used for road signs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Passport Standard, a permissive standard which explicitly allows the use of non-Hepburn romaji in personal names, notably for passports. In particular, rendering the syllabic n as m before b, m, p, details of these variants can be found below. The romanizations set out in the first and second versions of Hepburns dictionary are primarily of historical interest, supporters argue that Hepburn is not intended as a linguistic tool. The long vowels are indicated by macrons
26.
Nintendo
–
Nintendo Co. Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. Nintendo is one of the worlds largest video game companies by market capitalization, founded on 23 September 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small businesses, such as cab services. The word Nintendo can be translated from Japanese to English as leave luck to heaven. From 1992 until 2016, Nintendo was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseballs Seattle Mariners, as of 31 March 2014, Nintendo has cumulative sales of over 670.43 million hardware units and 4.23 billion software units. The company has created and released some of the best-known and top-selling video game franchises, such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo was founded as a card company in late 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi. Based in Kyoto, Japan, the produced and marketed a playing card game called Hanafuda. The handmade cards soon became popular, and Yamauchi hired assistants to mass-produce cards to satisfy demand, in 1949, the company adopted the name Nintendo Karuta Co. Ltd. doing business as The Nintendo Playing Card Co. outside Japan. Nintendo continues to manufacture playing cards in Japan and organizes its own contract bridge tournament called the Nintendo Cup. In 1956, Hiroshi Yamauchi, grandson of Fusajiro Yamauchi, visited the U. S. to talk with the United States Playing Card Company and he found that the biggest playing card company in the world was using only a small office. Yamauchis realization that the card business had limited potential was a turning point. He then acquired the license to use Disney characters on playing cards to drive sales, in 1963, Yamauchi renamed Nintendo Playing Card Co. Ltd. to Nintendo Co. Ltd. The company then began to experiment in other areas of business using newly injected capital during the period of time between 1963 and 1968, Nintendo set up a taxi company called Daiya. However, Nintendo was forced to sell it because problems with the unions were making it too expensive to run the service. It also set up a hotel chain, a TV network. All of these ventures failed, and after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, playing card sales dropped. In 1966, Nintendo moved into the Japanese toy industry with the Ultra Hand, Yokoi was moved from maintenance to the new Nintendo Games department as a product developer. Nintendo continued to produce toys, including the Ultra Machine, Love Tester
27.
Protagonist
–
A protagonist is the main character in any story, such as a literary work or drama. The protagonist is at the center of the story, typically makes the key decisions, the protagonist usually affects the main characters circumstances as well, as they are often the primary actor propelling the story forward. If a story contains a subplot, or is a made up of several stories. The word protagonist is used notably in stories and forms of literature and culture that contain stories, in those forms the protagonist may simply be the leading actor, or the principal character in the story. The antagonist will provide obstacles and complications and create conflict that test the protagonist, thus revealing the strengths, the earliest known examples of protagonist are dated back to Ancient Greece. At first dramatic performances involved merely dancing and recitation by the chorus, but then in Poetics, Aristotle describes how a poet named Thespis introduced the idea of having one actor step out and engage in a dialogue with the chorus. This was the invention of tragedy, which occurred about 536 B. C, then the poet Aeschylus, in his plays, introduced a second actor, inventing the idea of dialogue between two characters. Sophocles then wrote plays that required a third actor, euripides play Hippolytus may be considered to have two protagonists. The protagonist of the first half is Phaedra, who dies partway through the play and her stepson, the titular Hippolytus, assumes the dominant role in the second half of the play. In Ibsen’s play The Master Builder, the protagonist is the architect Halvard Solness, the young woman, Hilda Wangel, whose actions lead to the death of Solness, is the antagonist. In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is the protagonist and he is actively in pursuit of his relationship with Juliet, and the audience is invested in that story. The character of Tybalt opposes Romeo’s desires, he is the antagonist, in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Prince Hamlet, who seeks revenge for the murder of his father, is the protagonist. The antagonist would be the character who most opposes Hamlet, Claudius, in the novel The Catcher in the Rye, the character Holden Caulfield is the protagonist. He is the character, and the reader is invested in his story. Sometimes, a work will have a false protagonist, who may seem to be the protagonist, the character Marion in Alfred Hitchcocks film Psycho is an example. A novel that contains a number of narratives may have a number of protagonists, alexander Solzhenitsyns The First Circle, for example, depicts a variety of characters imprisoned and living in a gulag camp. Leo Tolstoys War and Peace, depicts fifteen major characters involved in or affected by a war
28.
Italians
–
Italians are a nation and ethnic group native to Italy who share a common culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a native tongue. The majority of Italian nationals are speakers of Standard Italian. Italians have greatly influenced and contributed to the arts and music, science, technology, cuisine, sports, fashion, jurisprudence, banking, Italian people are generally known for their localism and their attention to clothing and family values. The term Italian is at least 3,000 years old and has a history that goes back to pre-Roman Italy. According to one of the common explanations, the term Italia, from Latin, Italia, was borrowed through Greek from the Oscan Víteliú. The bull was a symbol of the southern Italic tribes and was often depicted goring the Roman wolf as a defiant symbol of free Italy during the Social War. Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus states this account together with the legend that Italy was named after Italus, mentioned also by Aristotle and Thucydides. The Etruscan civilization reached its peak about the 7th century BC, but by 509 BC, when the Romans overthrew their Etruscan monarchs, its control in Italy was on the wane. By 350 BC, after a series of wars between Greeks and Etruscans, the Latins, with Rome as their capital, gained the ascendancy by 272 BC, and they managed to unite the entire Italian peninsula. This period of unification was followed by one of conquest in the Mediterranean, in the course of the century-long struggle against Carthage, the Romans conquered Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica. Finally, in 146 BC, at the conclusion of the Third Punic War, with Carthage completely destroyed and its inhabitants enslaved, octavian, the final victor, was accorded the title of Augustus by the Senate and thereby became the first Roman emperor. After two centuries of rule, in the 3rd century AD, Rome was threatened by internal discord and menaced by Germanic and Asian invaders. Emperor Diocletians administrative division of the empire into two parts in 285 provided only temporary relief, it became permanent in 395, in 313, Emperor Constantine accepted Christianity, and churches thereafter rose throughout the empire. However, he moved his capital from Rome to Constantinople. The last Western emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed in 476 by a Germanic foederati general in Italy and his defeat marked the end of the western part of the Roman Empire. During most of the period from the fall of Rome until the Kingdom of Italy was established in 1861, Odoacer ruled well for 13 years after gaining control of Italy in 476. Then he was attacked and defeated by Theodoric, the king of another Germanic tribe, Theodoric and Odoacer ruled jointly until 493, when Theodoric murdered Odoacer. Theodoric continued to rule Italy with an army of Ostrogoths and a government that was mostly Italian, after the death of Theodoric in 526, the kingdom began to grow weak
29.
Plumber
–
A plumber is a tradesperson who specializes in installing and maintaining systems used for potable water, sewage and drainage in plumbing systems. The term dates from ancient times and is related to the Latin word for lead, the word plumber dates from the Roman Empire. The Latin for lead is plumbum, Roman roofs used lead in conduits and drain pipes and some were also covered with lead, lead was also used for piping and for making baths. Thus a person with expertise in working with lead was first known as a Plumbarius which was shortened to plumber. Years of training and/or experience are needed to become a skilled plumber, testing pipes for leaks using air and water pressure gauges Awareness of legal regulations and safety issues Ensuring safety standards and building regulations are met. Each state and locality may have its own licensing and taxing schemes for plumbers, there is no federal law establishing licenses for plumbers. The result is what is known as the Interprovincial Standards Red Seal Program, Plumbers in the United Kingdom are required to pass Level 2 and Level 3 vocational requirements of the City and Guilds of London Institute. Licensed plumbers are also expected to maintain minimum relevant training requirements to maintain their plumbing licence, the term White House Plumbers was a popular name given to the covert White House Special Investigations Unit established on July 24,1971 during the presidency of Richard Nixon. Their job was to plug leaks in the U. S. Government relating to the Vietnam War. The Republican McCain-Palin campaign later applied Joe the Plumber as a metaphor for middle-class Americans, william J. Spencer Leonard Susskind Richard Trethewey Alphonse Verville Orlando Zapata Super Mario – video game character from the game franchise of same name
30.
Princess Peach
–
Princess Peach is a character in Nintendos Mario franchise. Originally created by Shigeru Miyamoto, Peach is the princess of the fictional Mushroom Kingdom and she often plays the damsel in distress role within the series and is the lead female. She is often portrayed as Marios love interest and has appeared in Super Princess Peach, Princess Peachs initial appearance was drawn by Shigeru Miyamoto. Miyamoto later asked Yōichi Kotabe to redraw Peach with his instructions and he had asked Kotabe to draw her eyes to be a little cat-like. With Kotabes influence, Princess Peach changed considerably throughout her gaming system, Peach was not a playable character in New Super Mario Bros. Princess Peach has long, yellow hair, blue eyes, tall frame, a figure. She generally wears an evening gown. It has frilly trimmings, short sleeves, and a pannier-style overskirt. Her accessories are red high heels that grow when they are seen, white evening gloves, a brooch, cyan earrings. Peach also sometimes pulls her back into a ponytail considering its long length. It was first introduced in Super Mario Sunshine and would later be seen in the Mario Kart and Mario Sports games from Mario Golf, Toadstool Tour and Mario Kart, Double Dash. respectively. In sports games, she wears pink clothing, ranging from shorts. She also wears a different version of her gown in Super Mario Sunshine. In Japan, the Princesss name has always been Peach since her debut in the original Super Mario Bros. but she would go on to be renamed Toadstool in the English language manual. The English version of Yoshis Safari marked the first usage of the name Peach in the Western world, although she would go back to being named Toadstool in Wario Land, Super Mario Land 3. In Super Mario 64, she uses both names in a letter addressed to Mario, with Peach being used for her signature, Peachs personality is generally sweet and well mannered. In most games she is portrayed as selfless, perky and generous, typically, she does not show an aggressive nature even when she is fighting or confronting her enemies. This, however, varies slightly from game to game, one of Peachs most common traits during her playable appearances is her ability to temporarily float in the air with her large skirt, and later on, with her parasol
31.
Bowser (character)
–
Bowser or King Koopa is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Nintendos Mario franchise. In Japan, the bears the title of Daimaō. In the United States, the character was first referred to as Bowser, King of the Koopa and The sorcerer king in the instruction manual. Bowser is the leader and likely the most powerful of the turtle-like Koopa race and his ultimate goals are to kidnap Princess Peach, defeat Mario, and conquer the fictional Mushroom Kingdom. Since his debut, he has appeared in almost every Mario franchise game, Bowser has been called the most successful video game character. Currently, Bowser is voiced by Kenny James, in addition to his usual animated and video game appearances, he also appears in the 1993 highly criticized live-action film, where he is portrayed by Dennis Hopper. Bowser was the creation of Nintendo designer and producer Shigeru Miyamoto Miyamoto had first envisioned Bowser as an ox, however, Nintendo designer Takashi Tezuka pointed out that the character looked a lot more like a turtle than an ox. Miyamoto and Tezuka then began to work together to define Bowsers appearance, since the character was the leader of the turtle-like Koopa Troopas the two began to base his new appearance on them, creating a new illustration. In his final design, Miyamoto commented that he could make Bowser look cool now, Miyamoto named him 大魔王 クッパ Daimaō Kuppa. Kuppa came from the Japanese name for 국밥, gukbap, a Korean dish, Miyamoto had also considered the names ユッケ Yukke and ビビンバ Bibinba, also Japanese names of Korean dishes. The Korean name for the character Bowser/Kuppa is not Gukbap, but 쿠파 Kupa, the name was anglicized Kuppa rather than Koopa in the Japanese versions up until the release of Super Mario World. In the Super Mario Bros. film, Bowser is called President Koopa and is portrayed by Dennis Hopper and he is also briefly referred to as King Koopa. In the film, he is almost entirely human in appearance, with blonde hair he gels in the shape of a crown, however, after being briefly exposed to his own Devo machine by the Mario Bros. he starts occasionally possessing some reptilian traits. The final climax of the film sees Koopa devolve into an enormous Green Tyrannosaurus Rex to battle the Mario Bros, Bowser is portrayed as the King of the Koopas, anthropomorphic turtles that inhabit the world of the Mushroom Kingdom. Bowser differs greatly from the rest of the Koopa clan, which consists mainly of bipedal tortoises. His is characterized by a large, spiked turtle shell, horns and he is physically powerful, nearly indestructible and can breathe fire. He can also jump surprisingly high for his size, although his speed. Bowsers physical size tends to vary from game to game, in most games, he towers over the majority of characters, but there are exceptions
32.
Luigi
–
Luigi is a fictional character featured in video games and related media released by Nintendo. Luigi first appeared in the 1983 arcade game Mario Bros. as the controlled by the second player. 3, Super Mario World, and other titles, the first game where he was available as a primary character was Super Mario Bros.2. in Luigis Mansion for the Nintendo GameCube in 2001, and in Luigis Mansion, Dark Moon for the 3DS. In all three of these games, he is called upon to act as the hero because Mario, Luigi has also appeared in every episode of the three DiC TV series based on the NES and Super NES games. Originally developed as a swap of Mario with a green color scheme instead of red, Luigi has since developed a personality. As his role in the Mario series progressed, Luigi evolved into a distinct character, taller and thinner than his brother. Nintendo called the period of March 2013 to March 2014 The Year of Luigi to commemorate the anniversary of the characters existence. Correspondingly, games released in 2013 emphasised Luigi, such as Luigis Mansion, Dark Moon, Mario & Luigi, Dream Team, Dr. Luigi, an unlockable Luigi-themed version of Mario Bros. titled Luigi Bros. was also included with Super Mario 3D World. Luigis name is said to have inspired by a pizza parlor near Nintendo of Americas headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Miyamoto observed that the word ruiji means similar in the Japanese language, while Mario was originally portrayed as a carpenter in Donkey Kong, the duo of Mario and Luigi in Mario Bros. were styled as Italian plumbers by Miyamoto, on the suggestion of a colleague. After the success of Mario Bros, Luigi was introduced to a wider audience in 1985 with the release of the console game Super Mario Bros. Once again his role was restricted to a swap of Mario. The later Japan-only version of Super Mario Bros.2 in 1986 marked the beginning of Luigis development toward becoming a distinguished character. As with his previous appearances, Luigi remained a palette swap of Mario, however, Luigi could now jump higher and farther than his brother, at the expense of movement response and precision. While this version of Super Mario Bros.2 was released in Japan, in 1988, consequently, an alternative release was developed to serve as Super Mario Bros.2 for western players, this version would play a key role in shaping Luigis current appearance. The game was a conversion of Yume Kōjō, Doki Doki Panic, with the graphics altered to represent characters and scenes from the Mario franchise. There were earlier appearances of Luigi being taller than Mario, in the 1988 Famicom Disk System game Famicom Grand Prix II, 3D Hot Rally and earlier, in a very rare 1986 anime Super Mario Bros. Luigis distinctive appearance from the Yume Kōjō, Doki Doki Panic-inspired version of Super Mario Bros.2 has been used ever since, much like his appearance, Luigis vocal portrayal has fluctuated over the years
33.
Mario Kart
–
Mario Kart is a series of go-kart-style racing video games developed and published by Nintendo as spin-offs from its trademark Super Mario series. The first in the series, Super Mario Kart, was launched in 1992 on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System to critical and commercial success. There have been five Mario Kart games released for home consoles, the latest title in the series, Mario Kart 8, was released on Wii U in May 2014. The series has sold over 100 million copies worldwide to date, an enhanced version of Mario Kart 8, entitled Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, will be released on the Nintendo Switch in April 2017. The first title in the Mario Kart series is Super Mario Kart and was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992. Darran Jones of NowGamer suggests that the success of Super Mario Kart was the result of including characters previously seen in Mario Bros. games. In the Mario Kart series, players compete in go-kart races, up to eight characters can compete in each race, apart from Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart 8. These two titles can include up to twelve-player racing, one of the features of the series is the use of various power-up items obtained by driving into item boxes laid out on the course. These power-ups include mushrooms to give players a speed boost, Koopa Shells to be thrown at opponents, the type of weapon received from an item box is often random, though sometimes influenced by the players current position in the race. For example, players lagging far behind may receive more powerful items while the leader will only receive small defensive items, called rubber banding, this gameplay mechanism allows other players or computers a realistic chance to catch up to the leading player. As the series has progressed, each new installment has introduced new elements in order to keep the fresh, such as new courses, items. These changes include, Mario Kart 64 introduces 4-player racing and 3D graphics and this game also introduced Wario and Donkey Kong as playable characters, as well as the blue shell as an item. Mario Kart, Super Circuit introduces the ability to unlock all of the Super Mario Kart tracks, Mario Kart, Double Dash features co-operative LAN play and two-player karts. Also introduces eleven new playable characters, finally, this game introduced unlockable characters to the series. Mario Kart DS features dual-screen play and introduces online multiplayer & retro battle courses, introduces Shy Guy, Dry Bones, and R. O. B. as playable characters. DS was also the first Mario Kart game to feature tracks from all previous versions of the game. Mario Kart Wii features motion controls, performing tricks, 12-player racing, six new playable characters were introduced, being Baby Peach, Baby Daisy, Rosalina, Funky Kong, Dry Bowser, and two outfits for Mii characters. Mario Kart 7 features stereoscopic 3D graphics, introduces hang gliding and submersible karts, introduces Metal Mario, Lakitu, Wiggler, and Honey Queen as new playable characters
34.
Role-playing video game
–
A role-playing video game is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character immersed in some well-defined world. Many role-playing video games have origins in tabletop role-playing games and use much of the terminology, settings. Other major similarities with pen-and-paper games include developed story-telling and narrative elements, player development, complexity, as well as replayability. The electronic medium removes the necessity for a gamemaster and increases combat resolution speed, RPGs have evolved from simple text-based console-window games into visually rich 3D experiences. Role-playing video games use much of the terminology, settings. Players control a game character, or multiple game characters, usually called a party. Players explore a world, while solving puzzles and engaging in tactical combat. A key feature of the genre is that characters grow in power and abilities, RPGs rarely challenge a players physical coordination or reaction time, with the exception of action role-playing games. Role-playing video games typically rely on a developed story and setting. Players control one or several characters by issuing commands, which are performed by the character at an effectiveness determined by that characters numeric attributes. Often these attributes increase each time a character gains a level, role-playing video games also typically attempt to offer more complex and dynamic character interaction than what is found in other video game genres. This usually involves additional focus on the intelligence and scripted behavior of computer-controlled non-player characters. The premise of most role-playing games tasks the player with saving the world, there are often twists and turns as the story progresses, such as the surprise appearance of estranged relatives, or enemies who become friends or vice versa. To a lesser extent, settings closer to the present day or near future are possible, the story often provides much of the entertainment in the game. Because these games have strong storylines, they can make effective use of recorded dialog. Players of these tend to appreciate long cutscenes more than players of faster action games. While most games advance the plot when the player defeats an enemy or completes a level, for example, a player may make the decision to join a guild, thus triggering a progression in the storyline that is usually irreversible. New elements in the story may also be triggered by mere arrival in an area, the plot is usually divided so that each game location is an opportunity to reveal a new chapter in the story
35.
Super Mario RPG
–
It was originally released on March 9,1996, in Japan and on May 13,1996, in North America. Nintendo ported the game, with differences, to the Wiis Virtual Console service in 2008. It is the first role-playing video game in the Mario series, the story focuses on Mario and his party as they seek to eliminate the games main antagonist, Smithy. Smithy has stolen the seven pieces of Star Road where all the worlds inhabitants wishes become Wish Stars. The game features five permanent playable characters, Super Mario RPG was directed by Yoshihiko Maekawa and Chihiro Fujioka and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto. Yoko Shimomura composed the score, which was released on a soundtrack album in Japan shortly after the games debut. Square did much of the development of Super Mario RPG under direct guidance from producer Shigeru Miyamoto, the game was well-received upon release, praised particularly for its 3D-rendered graphics and humor. Like most traditional JRPGs, there are two sections to the game, adventuring and turn-based battle sequences. There are no random encounters and as enemies are visible in the field. This allows the player to evade unnecessary battles, the player controls only Mario at the journeys beginning. Ultimately, the player gain a party of five characters. Mario is always in the party, but the other two characters can be selected before battles. Each of the five characters has a set of attacks. For example, Princess Toadstools abilities are primarily healing techniques, whereas Geno, the combat is based on a traditional turn based battle system with the addition of action commands that amplify a moves effects. The action command consists of timed button presses during an attack, special move, defense and this is one of the more innovative features of gameplay, becoming a mainstay of later Mario RPGs. The game world is set in a diverse land, which includes mountains. Bowsers Castle is another prominent location in the game, as it holds the portal to the main antagonists home world, as in most Mario series games, the main protagonist is Mario, whose initial goal is to rescue Princess Peach from Bowser. However, the takes on an unusual and very important twist
36.
Paper Mario
–
It was first released in Japan on August 11,2000, in North America on February 5,2001, and in Europe and Australia on October 5,2001. Paper Mario was re-released for Nintendos Wii Virtual Console in July 2007 as well as Wii U Virtual Console in 2015, the player controls Mario and a number of partners to solve puzzles in the games overworld and defeat enemies in a turn-based battle system. The battles are unique in that the player can influence the effectiveness of attacks by performing required controller inputs known as action commands, Paper Mario is the second Mario role-playing game to be released and is the first installment for the Paper Mario series. The game received a reaction from the media, attaining an aggregate score of 88% from GameRankings. It was rated the 63rd best game made on a Nintendo system in Nintendo Powers Top 200 Games list in 2006, Paper Mario combines traditional role-playing game elements with concepts and features from the Mario series. For the majority of the game, the player controls Mario, many of the games puzzles and boundaries are based upon the abilities of Marios partners, who each have a specialised skill required for progression in the game. The player accumulates partners as they advance into different locations, only one partner can accompany Mario in the overworld and these characters also assist Mario in the games turn-based battles, where damage inflicted against them results in temporary paralysis as the characters do not have individual HP statistics. Mario and his partners have a capacity to perform special moves. Such statistics can be increased by earning Star Points in combat to level up, there is also an on-screen gauge to display Star Energy, which is required to perform another type of move that accumulate in number as the player advances through the game. The player can locate hidden battle upgrades in the games overworld, progression through Paper Mario depends upon interaction with the games non-player characters, who will often offer clues or detail the next event in the storyline. As in other RPGs, the player can find or purchase items from NPCs to help in, princess Peach is playable at particular points in the game as a recurring sidequest. The objectives and actions of each transition to Peach vary, although most are stealth-based. The game is set in the Mushroom Kingdom, beginning as Mario and Luigi are relaxing in their house when the mail arrives with a letter, which turns out to be an invitation from Peach to a party. Mario and Luigi then head to the castle, and as Mario is about to have quiet time with Peach. After his invasion and victory over Mario, the fortress serves as the location for playable side quests of the kidnapped Peach. In the main quest, Mario tries to retrieve all of the 7 imprisoned Star Spirits on land, where most of the locations are linked to the central Toad Town, which acts as the games hub area. The storys main conflict arises when Bowser invades Star Haven, the residence for the Star Spirits, the games story centers on Mario as he tries to reclaim the seven Star Spirits, who have been incarcerated in playing cards by Bowser and his assistant, Kammy Koopa. Their combined power is required to negate the effects of the Star Rod, once Mario rescues all of them, he uses their assistance to defeat Bowser and rescue Peach
37.
Mario Is Missing
–
The popularity of the Super Mario series led to the release of several spin-off Mario educational games from 1988 to 1996. Nintendo had little involvement in the development of games, they were created by various other developers, including The Software Toolworks. Some of the titles were released exclusively for either the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Mario educational games were generally designed for use by children in preschool or kindergarten and focused on developing skills ranging from language and typing to geography and history. The educational games were not well-received, with critics and gamers labeling them as some of the worst Mario games ever made. Many of them have spawned Internet memes, I Am a Teacher, Super Mario Sweater is a Famicom Disk System game released in 1988 only in Japan. It was designed by Royal Industries Co. Ltd. a Japanese appliance, using the program, players could design the sweater they want and the company would make it for 2900 yen. The Mario Discovery Series is a given to five Mario educational games that were developed by The Software Toolworks. Mario is Missing. is a game for the PC, Macintosh. It was developed by The Software Toolworks and released in 1992 for PC, in 1993, the NES version was made and developed by Radical Entertainment. The gameplay was panned by critics. Mario Is Missing. is the first Mario game to feature only Luigi as the character, which did not occur again until Luigis Mansion. Bowser sets up a castle in Antarctica, and plans to use many hair dryers from Hafta Havit and he sends Koopas to cities across Earth to steal artifacts to fund his operation. Mario, Luigi and Yoshi travel to Bowsers castle to stop him, Luigi is hesitant to go in, so Mario goes by himself and is kidnapped by Bowser, prompting Luigi to rescue him. This plot is not explicitly included in the Super NES version, Luigi progresses through the game by completing levels in Bowsers castle, each floor is guarded by one Koopaling and contains a number of pipes which transport Luigi to a city containing Koopas. Once a floor is completed, Luigi must defeat the Koopaling guarding that floor to go ahead to the next, the main gameplay consists of moving around a city in side-scrolling manner while jumping on Koopas to collect stolen artifacts. Luigi then must secure the city by taking these artifacts to their respective locations, once an artifact is returned, the landmark is reopened. During the quest to return all three artifacts to their proper landmarks, Luigi must determine his location to receive the assistance of Yoshi by using a device called the Globulator. If Luigi takes Yoshi to the location, he can ride him for double the walking and running speed
38.
Mario's Time Machine
–
Marios Time Machine is an educational video game originally released for MS-DOS and then for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super NES consoles. The Software Toolworks both developed and published the MS-DOS and Super NES versions in 1993, while the NES version was developed by Radical Entertainment, the MS-DOS version was re-released as Marios Time Machine Deluxe in 1996. Marios Time Machine is one of several educational Mario video games that were released during the early 1990s, Marios Time Machine received generally negative reviews since its release, holding an aggregate score of 60. 25% on GameRankings based on two reviews. Its use as a title has been mixed, and the game has been compared to another educational history game. Marios Time Machine is set in the year 1993, Bowser, who has built a time machine called the Timulator, travels back in time and steals essential artifacts from various points in human history to place on display in a museum inside his castle. Because these actions will eventually change history permanently, the player character Mario takes control of the Timulator to return the artifacts to their areas in time. In the NES version, Bowser also kidnaps Yoshi, who is freed upon completing the game, the gameplay focuses on teaching the player the historical significance of each artifact, to progress through the game, the player must correctly answer questions relating to the learned information. Marios Time Machine uses a perspective, with a game engine that varies across all three versions. The console versions use a system to order to resume play from a particular game state. The player begins Marios Time Machine in Bowsers museum, the museum is the main hub, where the player obtains the artifacts and directly accesses all the games levels using the Timulator. In the Super NES and MS-DOS versions, for each artifact, for example, the player learns that the Apple artifact originated from 1687 Cambridge. The player can then time travel using this information, time traveling itself is a minigame in which Mario surfs through a wide ocean, collecting enough mushrooms will transport Mario to the time period and location programmed into the Timulator. The player is given a document describing the life and notability of the historical person associated. The player thus is required to converse with the characters depicting the local denizens of the time period in order to learn various facts. The player chooses the words from a list of pre-determined words, if the player fills a blank more than twice. When the player all the blanks correctly, he can then successfully return the artifact to its original owner. In the games ending cutscene, Mario manages to confront Bowser, the NES version of Marios Time Machine has a heavier emphasis on platforming than the other two versions. Despite the presence of enemies, Mario cannot lose lives or even take damage, to obtain an artifact in Bowsers museum, the player plays a Mario Bros. -inspired minigame in which he fights Koopa Troopas
39.
Sheriff (video game)
–
Sheriff, also known as Bandido, is an arcade game developed by Nintendo R&D1 in 1979, designed by Genyo Takeda with art by Shigeru Miyamoto. Some sources claim that Ikegami Tsushinki also did work on Sheriff. It is one of the earliest Western-style video games developed, the player controls a county sheriff tasked with defense of a town against bandits. Sheriff has unique controls for shooting and moving around the screen, the shooting joystick consists of a switch that can be pointed into eight different directions. The player must indicate a direction, then press the switch in order to shoot, the movement joystick is also set so that a considerable time delay exists before the new direction takes effect on screen. These controls allow the sheriff to walk in one direction while shooting in another, the entire screen is part of the game field, except for the score indication on the top of the screen. 16 bandits surround the rim, marked by a dotted barricade. Bullets from either the sheriff or the bandits can destroy these barriers, unbreakable bricks also exist on the midpoint of each side of the screen, and display the current level number. The sheriff must avoid touching the bandits, dodge bullets, a remake of the original titled Sheriff 2 was released in 1979, but few changes were made other than the addition of color graphics and minor changes in bonus scoring. The game was duplicated by Exidy in 1980 and released as Bandido. The game was released in two formats, an upright cabinet and a cocktail version. These versions also made their way into Europe and Asia via imports, in the UK, Sheriff was licensed for production and distribution by Bell-Fruit Manufacturing in an upright cabinet. Bell-Fruits core product range at the time was fruit/slot machines, although it featured the same marquee and bezel design, it shared many properties more commonly associated with slot machines. However, the title in this region remained unchanged as Sheriff. The Sheriff has also made appearances the Super Smash Bros. games starting with Super Smash Bros Melee, in which he appeared as one of the many collectible Trophies in the game. Sheriff later returned in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, many players were unable to cope with the 8-way joystick of the original game, leading to its relative unpopularity. The sequel, Sheriff 2 was released in 1979, with the changed to cute animals. The 8-way joystick used for shooting was replaced with a normal button, another game pattern was also added, where the bandits enter into the central area, but run straight through the top half instead of chasing the sheriff
.jpg)
Media related to Mario at Wikimedia Commons
Quotations related to Mario at Wikiquote
