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Submitted by Wriggy 971d ago | article

The True History of Mario

CVG writes: "The Mario series has been rebooted more times than a duff computer, so can we ever make sense of the real sequence of events in the Mushroom Kingdom? We dig through 28 years of gaming in an attempt to write the 'true' history of the Artist Formerly Known As Jumpman...

THE EARLY YEARS
Attempting to arrange Mario's convoluted past into a coherent timeline is madness, but here's our take on it. Although Mario likes to present himself as 'one of us' - a bog- (ha!) standard plumber who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, this is, at best, LIES.

As Yoshi's Island (1995) explains, Mario and Luigi were in fact born (and spent their formative years, if Yoshi's Island DS (2006) is to be believed) in the Mushroom World..." (Dr Mario, Dr. Mario & Bacteria Extermination, Dr. Mario Express, Dr. Mario Online Rx, GameCube, Mario & Luigi 3, Mario & Luigi RPG 3, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Mario & Sonic At The Olympics, Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympics, Mario and Sonic, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, Mario Baseball, Mario Bros., Mario Galaxy, Mario Galaxy 2, Mario Golf, Mario Hoops 3 on 3, Mario Kart 64, Mario Kart DS, Mario Kart Wii, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Mario Party 8, Mario Party DS, Mario Power Tennis, Mario Slam Basketball, Mario Strikers Charged, Mario Super Sluggers, Mario Superstar Baseball, New Super Mario Bros Wii, New Super Mario Bros., Nintendo DS, Paper Mario, Paper Mario VC, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Sonic And Mario At The Winter Olympics, Suoer Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Baseball, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario Kart, Super Mario PRG, Super Mario Sluggers, Super Mario Stadium Family Baseball, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario World, Super Paper Mario, Wii)

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