* Mario's Time Machine, a 1993 video game from Nintendo

Mario's Time Machine is an educational video game originally released for MS-DOS and then for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System consoles.

The MS-DOS version was re-released as Mario's Time Machine Deluxe in 1996.

Mario's Time Machine is one of several educational Mario video games that were released during the early 1990s ; the game focuses on teaching human history.

Mario's Time Machine received generally negative reception since its release, holding an aggregate score of 60. 25 % on GameRankings based on two reviews.

Mario's Time Machine uses a side-scrolling perspective, with a game engine that varies across all three versions.

The player begins Mario's Time Machine in Bowser's museum.

The NES version of Mario's Time Machine has a heavier emphasis on platforming than the other two versions.

Mario's Time Machine was originally released for computers in 1993, with a deluxe re-release titled Mario's Time Machine Deluxe in 1996.

Screenshot of the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Mario's Time Machine

Since its release, Mario's Time Machine has received negative reception.

Authors David Wesley and Gloria Barczak associated Mario's Time Machine with the recent " flood of ill-conceived Mario spin-offs ", arguing that these games nearly destroyed the Mario license.

The Independents Janet Swift discussed Mario's Time Machine in her article on the latest generation of educational titles in 1994.

" In 2007, ScrewAttack placed Mario's Time Machine as the fourth worst Mario game, criticizing it for ruining the concept of a Mario time-travel game.

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* Mario's Time Machine-Mindscape Group

Mario's Time Machine for the Nintendo Entertainment System

The game's sole usable item is a mushroom, which, when touched, initializes " Fever Time ", where Mario's shell throwing defeats any enemy it touches, regardless of its defenses.

* Mario's Time Machine, an educational game for the SNES

A version of the game called Dr. Wario, which replaces Mario's character with Wario, is included as an unlockable minigame in the Game Boy Advance game WarioWare, Inc .: Mega Microgames !.

Mario's cold develops into pneumonia, and he is sent to the hospital.

In Super Smash Bros. and Super Smash Bros. Melee, Luigi's voice is made up of clips from Mario's voice taken from Super Mario 64, with raised pitches.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, he has his own voice ( which is medium-pitched ) instead of a pitched-up version of Mario's.

She is often portrayed as Mario's love interest and has appeared in nearly all the Mario games to date ; with the most notable being in Super Princess Peach where she is the main protagonist.

Peach is Mario's girlfriend and childhood friend.

After Toadstool has been rescued, Bowser joins Mario's party, and the player is able to switch characters for the first time.

It is the first tennis-based game starring Mario since Mario's Tennis, and the second game developed by Camelot on a Nintendo system.

He was portrayed as an exaggerated version of Mario and his name is a variant of Mario's name ( as shown by the W in his name, which is an upside down M that portrays him as an upside down Mario ).

The name Wario is a portmanteau of Mario's name with the Japanese adjective warui ( 悪い ) meaning " bad "; hence, a " bad Mario " ( further symbolized by the " W " on his hat, an upside down " M ").

Martinet was told to speak in a mean and gruff voice, and described voicing Wario as a looser task than voicing Mario, since Mario's voice and personality is free-flowing, coming from the ground and floating into the air, while one of Wario's cornerstones is self-pity.

After blowing up an auctioneer to cover up the theft of the Sforza, the Mario Bros. take Hawk away inside an ambulance, but when Hawk sticks needles into Antony Mario's face they try to run him down ( as the stretcher Hawk is on falls out of the ambulance as it speeds along the highway ), but are both killed when their driver crashes the ambulance due to the needles in Antony's face.

Mario's task is to free Subcon from Wart, the game's final boss.

It is then revealed that Shadow Mario's real identity is Bowser Jr., the youngest son of Bowser.

Mario's primary attack is to jump on top of his enemies, which normally kills them.

The castle was stationed on a mountain carved in Bowser's image which is oddly extremely close to Mario's own house.

Mario's famous speech is sampled in many songs including " An Ounce Of Prevention " from the album On Little Known Frequencies by the band From Monument to Masses, " Timelessness " by the band Fear Factory, " The Movie's Over " by the Australian band Cog, " Article IV " by the Santa Cruz band Good Riddance, " Here Come The Pigs " by Deadsoul Tribe and " Wretches and Kings " from the album A Thousand Suns by Linkin Park.

In this game, Mario's archrival Wario must free a mysterious figure who is trapped inside a music box.

After that, Mario's son Michael Andretti won in 1991, former Formula 1 World champion Nigel Mansell in 1993, and Brazilian Cristiano da Matta in 2002.

The gameplay focuses on Mario's extermination of pests in the sewers by flipping them on their backs and kicking them away.

Changing into a Tanooki statue while jumping would result in Mario pounding the ground and killing whatever enemies are directly under him, this marked the first appearance of the " Ground Pound " move in a Mario game, a move that would later be given to Yoshi in Yoshi's Island and that would later become part of Mario's standard moveset in Super Mario 64 and all subsequent games.

The original plan for Mario's Mansion involved a game where the levels revolved around a large mansion or complex.

GameSpot said that Luigi's Mansion " fails to match the classic status of Mario's adventures " and that the " short amount of time it takes to complete it makes it a hard recommendation.

Miyamoto had been inspired by the game Joust to create a game with a simultaneous two-player mode, which led to his development of the game Mario Bros. in 1983, with Luigi filling the role of Mario's brother as the second playable character.

In Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Peach was one of Mario's party members, along with Mallow, Geno and Bowser.

The Luma returns to the Comet Observatory, taking Mario's cap with him, before the Comet Observatory transforms into a comet and leaves.

Donkey Kong was Mario's first opponent in Nintendo's popular 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong.

Since then he has starred in his own series of games, starting with 1994's Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and remains an important character in the spin-off games of the Mario series, having since been replaced by Bowser as Mario's arch nemesis.

Donkey Kong resumed his antagonistic role in Donkey Kong 3, this time the character Stanley The Bugman taking Mario's place as the protagonist.

He appeared in the Virtual Boy game Mario's Tennis.

Mario's hit points are shown at the top of the screen.

Mario's ability to jog in eight directions and jump up or down in three – quarter perspective gave him a ( comparatively ) large range of motion.

Many of the game's puzzles and boundaries are based upon the abilities of Mario's partners, who each have a specialised skill required for progression in the game.