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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island: Played this a lot as a kid. I still don't know why Smash classifies Yoshi and Wario as different series from Mario, though. I know you can say the same about DK, but I feel like DK has more of an identity outside of Mario than they do. Anyway, yeah, good game, but it gave us the babies, so it came at a cost. I learned about this game from my friend Josh. Josh's parents bought him way more games than mine did, so I had to go over to his house a lot to play them. The problem was, Josh was a really bad sport and would turn off my gameboy or the N64 if he started losing, which was frequent, because I was way better than him, even though he had more time to practice. But I can't complain! Josh introduced me to Smash, Pokemon, Yoshi's Island, Star Fox, Starcraft, and Mystical Ninja Goemon, so my gaming tastes do owe a lot to him.
Valentina
Smash 64 Commercial
Pirahna Plant (Smash Bros)
Mini-Yoshi (TTYD): I know people like this character, and I agree that the idea of a Yoshi that's born in front of you, and your actions slightly affect what color he'll be, is a cool idea. But I just wanted another enemy race person to join you. There're a million games where you can play as or ride on Yoshi, but only two games where you can fight alongside a Goomba. I do like that because he's born while you're calling yourself Gonzalez, he keeps doing that for the entire game. But hey, at least he does everything you expect and want out of a Yoshi. He eats enemies, he throws eggs, and he floats for a little while. I sort of wish more games kept the SMW 'different colored Yoshis have different abilities' gimmick. Anyway, let's do this: Black > White > Pink > Blue > Red > Green > Orange.
Fawful
Mario Lemieux: Really, this is the best real-world Mario you could come up with? A 58-year-old Canadian former hockey player? Well, I'm looking at him, and he appears to be very excellent hockey player, so good for him, I guess. 21 years of professional hockey is nothing to sneeze at. "His numerous ailments included spinal disc herniation, Hodgkin's lymphoma, chronic tendinitis of a hip-flexor muscle, and chronic back pain so severe that other people had to tie his skates." Ouch, how common are such injuries and ailments in hockey? Obviously, I know about the brain problems football players suffer from.
Swapping Cartridges: Such a cool concept. It's amazing that this kind of stuff occasionally actually works. As a kid, I wondered how people even discovered these things in the first place.

- Super Mushroom Tier
Staff Roll Theme (Mario 64)
Super Mario Strikers (2005)
Shellcreeper
Hide and Seek mods
Bowser Theme (Super Mario World 2)
Mario Quiz Cards: Okay, so I was going to go through all of these and find the most embarrassing ones, but there are literally thousands, so I gave up early on. Here's a compilation if you're interested: https://lostmediawiki.com/Mario_Quiz_Cards_(partially_lost_educational_flashcard_designs_based_on_game_franchise;_1995-1997) . That said, of course it's hilarious to see Luigi as a Confederate soldier or a Russian cosmonaut or running away from vaccines. And it's hilarious that Mario and Peach boycott Bowser for refusing to let Rosa Park onto his bus, but a certain younger brother is absent from the boycott. The era of Nintendo renting out its properties to insane trash is long since over, and sadly will never return, which denies us more ill-conceived things like the Mario flash cards. God, can you imagine if there was official "Luigi the Confederate soldier" art made today? I'll defend Luigi on the reading a book about WWII and Hitler, though, nothing indicates that that's specifically a Nazi book, it could easily just be a regular history book about Nazis.
Puzzle Plank Galaxy (Theme)
Bah (NSMB Music)
Starman
Donkey Kong (1981)
Wreck-It Ralph: I only saw the first movie, and it's fine. It's pretty good. I think it's sort of interesting that in pop culture, video games are always portrayed as being stuck in the 80s forever. I don't know the last game I played with lives and points. Surely there are way more kids today who play Fortnite than who ever played Donkey Kong 2, and video games in media are still portrayed as beep boop platformers. Anyway, the story of a guy wanting to be more than he was meant to be, and then teaming up with Sarah Silverman is as old as time. But, like, to be clear, all of the real video game stuff in this movie is there for like one minute, and has no effect on the plot. Yeah, it's funny to see Bowser for five seconds, but it could have as easily been a random fake Bowser stand-in. Imagine if instead of Wreck-It Ralph, they'd used a real character from a forgotten 80s game, like, I don't know, Tapper, where the guy gets bored and has the same adventure Ralph does. Then again, I guess that's what they did with the Chip and Dale movie recently, and everyone complained about it, so maybe this was the right choice after all. Anyway, I never saw the second movie. I read the original idea for it was the arcade getting a cabinet for Wreck-It Ralph 2, and Ralph having to team up with his future self and not really liking him, which is cleverer than what they actually did, which as far as I can tell is fifteen minutes of Disney Princesses. And I know that the movie ends with Sarah Silverman saying goodbye as she goes onto a new adventure without Ralph, breaking them up... which is also the ending of Frozen 2. I don't know, I'm just saying this is a little weird and sounds bad.
Mushroomy Kingdom
Rainbow Road (Fat Bearded Guy Song)
Jim Carrey as Wario in SMB2: I can see it. As a kid, I loved Jim Carrey. He's definitely lost the veneer he once had, though. Would he be the best Wario possible? Maybe not, but I'm sure he'd be at least a pretty solid one. What I'm wondering is how much his Wario would be similar to the real Wario. Like, obviously his Eggman is very different from the real Eggman, so although he can definitely pull off being a cartoonish wackjob, I imagine his version wouldn't quite line up with the video game's.
Gust Garden Galaxy (Theme)
Tonkachi Mario
Talking Flowers
Trials of Death
Dennis Hopper
Anya Taylor-Joy
I'm a Chuckster
Do the Mario: Uploaded 17 years ago, god... Anyway, was this real? Was this really at the end of every episode of the cartoon? Because it's REALLY absurd. That's not even what "the Mario" should be. "The Mario" should be like jumping with one fist raised above your head, and the other held parallel to your waist. God, you just could not make something like this anymore without irony. Yeah, 1989, even back then this is pushing it. I think my favorite part about this is that the Wiki has translations of the lyrics into German and Italian, but no other languages.
Kublai Khan
Tetris Attack
Toaster
Backwards Long Jump
Mouser