Mario timelime series#

Mario timelime series#

In Mario Bros., enemies come out of green pipes which resembles warp-pipes, so this could be a possible implication of this being before the main series and the time of Mario's return to the Mushroom World. Whether he left or not is unknown, but the Super Mario Brothers anime film shows us he may have taken a warp-pipe to the Mushroom Kindgom. is a place to start, with Mario lacking power-ups and actually being in a different World to the Mushroom Kingdom. We don't really see any games showing Mario growing up, and instead we just skip straight to his adult life. Game Theory has once again shown us that the Past-segements of 'Mario&Luigi: Partner's in Time' come next, followed by Yoshi's Island DS, with the dialogue between Bowser and his former self giving us an indication.Īnd after that we have a pretty big timeskip. As everyone can agree, Yoshi's Island is the earliest game Mario could be present in, as he is being delivered to his parents by a stork! Yoshi's New Island is a direct sequel and so takes place afterwards. However, this doesn't throw this idea out the window, as there would still be the plothole of adult-Mario vs DK's grandfather whilst he looks about DK's age if it were the other way round.Īnd so we come onto the birth of the protagonist of the series. Whilst the Mario and DK crossovers show Pauline to still be present and with Mario, we can view this as more as a plothole, as I have no real explainations for this.

They use 'Yoshi's Island DS' as a source to show that the DK we know was born at around the same time as Mario, proving the 'Jumpman' from the original Donkey Kong game to be a different person from Mario, explaining the difference in name and occupation. However, due to the implication of the Donkey Kong found in the original game of the same name being Cranky Kong, the grandfather of Donkey Kong, I'll have to go with Game Theory's idea on this. Of course, going by actual games, what comes next is tricky. This has become a well established festival, so she must a least be a few hundred years old. This is what caused the Star Festivals, like the one seen in Super Mario Galaxy's opening. I believe this to be the ealiest as it is implied to take place hundreds and hundreds of years ago, which Rosalina stating she will visit her home planet once every hundred years. This shows Rosalina as a young girl and her meeting with the first incarnation of Luma. In my personal opinion, the game that shows the earliest events is in Super Mario Galaxy, within Rosalina's Storybook. Where to begin is a tricky question and I guess in the end would come down to a person's view. And here's an image of the timeline.To get to grops with a timeline, the best place to start is well. Still, for those who love the Italian plumber, the video introducing Scorpigator's timeline is worth watching. It beggars belief, for instance, that the evil Bowser would launch so many similar dastardly plots, but, then, maybe that's what makes the villain just a little endearing. series.Ĭreating a definitive timeline for the Mario games is probably impossible, since the games have such minimalist stories and are, effectively, a long series of reset buttons. In fact, several Mario games are absent from the chronology, including, notably, what Americans know as Super Mario Bros. Granted, as the creators admit, they are 'not the arbiters of Mario canon,' and their timeline isn't the definitive version. One is especially thorough.īut now Scorpigator Films has created a new timeline for fans to pore over. For instance, check out these two attempts at Kotaku.

For years now, fans of Mario's games have been trying to construct the perfect narrative timeline for the popular character. The same thing has been happening with the many, many, many games featuring the most famous video game hero of them all, Mario. Fans had long been speculating whether or not there was one, and some had even created a few chronologies of their own that floated around the internet. Gamers were thrilled several years ago when the creators of The Legend of Zelda issued an official timeline for the Nintendo series.