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|image=[[File:Marco Polo MTMDX.png]]
|image=[[File:Marco Polo MTMDX.png]]
|full_name=Marco Emilio Polo
|first_appearance=''[[Mario's Time Machine]]'' ([[List of games by date#1993|1993]])
|first_appearance=''[[Mario's Time Machine (PC)|Mario's Time Machine]]'' ([[List of games by date#1993|1993]])
|species=[[Human]]
|species=Human
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'''{{wp|Marco Polo|Marco Emilio Polo}}''' was a {{wp|Republic of Venice|Venetian}} merchant, explorer, and writer who traveled through much of Asia along the {{wp|Silk Road}} while recording his travels. His notes of Asian culture and technology became one of the earliest accounts that were available to the Western world. They included concepts that were completely unknown to Europe at the time, notably porcelain and [[Paper Money]]. He, along with his father and uncle, {{wp|Niccolò and Maffeo Polo}}, also met the {{wp|Mongol Empire|Mongol ruler}} [[Kublai Khan]] in [[Cambuluc]].
'''{{wp|Marco Polo}}''' was an {{wp|Italy|Italian}} explorer who traveled through much of Asia while recording his travels. His notes of Asian culture and technology became one of the earliest accounts that were available to the Western world. They included concepts that were completely unknown to Europe at the time, notably porcelain and [[Paper Money]]. He, along with his father and uncle, {{wp|Niccolò and Maffeo Polo}}, also met the {{wp|Mongol Empire|Mongol ruler}} [[Kublai Khan]] in [[Cambuluc]].


==History==
==History==
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===''Mario's Time Machine''===
===''Mario's Time Machine''===
[[File:Marco Polo MTMSNES.png|thumb|left|Marco Polo in the [[Mario's Time Machine (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)|SNES release of ''Mario's Time Machine'']]]]
[[File:Marco Polo MTMSNES.png|thumb|left|Marco Polo in the SNES release of ''Mario's Time Machine'']]
In ''Mario's Time Machine'', Marco Polo is depicted as in the [[Gobi Desert]] circa 1292, leaving Cambuluc, when his [[Print Block]] is stolen by a time-traveling [[Bowser]]. [[Mario]] later takes back the Print Block and travels back in time himself to return it, albeit without knowing the identity of its owner. If Mario still talks to Marco Polo, Mario attempts to introduce himself, but Marco Polo believes that he is a mirage caused by the desert. Due to Mario's short stature and garb, Marco Polo completely ignores him. Mario must then talk to the other inhabitants, all of whom easily talk about Marco Polo's experiences and history, and one of whom even gives Mario a book written by Marco Polo titled the "[[Book of Marco Polo]]" (although this book was titled ''{{wp|The Travels of Marco Polo|Il Milione}}'', was written by {{wp|Rustichello da Pisa}} while he and Marco Polo were in prison, and was only published several years after the events of the game). Eventually, Mario confirms that the Print Block belongs to Marco Polo, and returns to the Gobi Desert to give it to him. Mario tells him that he forgot it, and he thanks Mario for returning it, as he can now return home and show the people there what he has collected from Asia. He also decrees that Mario is now an honorary member of his family, and dubs him "Mario Polo".
In ''Mario's Time Machine'', Marco Polo is depicted as in the [[Gobi Desert]] circa 1292, leaving Cambuluc, when his [[Print Block]] is stolen by a time-traveling [[Bowser]]. [[Mario]] later takes back the Print Block and travels back in time himself to return it, albeit without knowing the identity of its owner. If Mario still talks to Marco Polo, Mario attempts to introduce himself, but Marco Polo believes that he is a mirage caused by the desert. Due to Mario's short stature and garb, Marco Polo completely ignores him. Mario must then talk to the other inhabitants, all of whom=yes easily talk about Marco Polo's experiences and history, and one of whom even gives Mario a book written by Marco Polo titled the "[[Book of Marco Polo]]" (although this book was titled ''{{wp|The Travels of Marco Polo|Il Milione}}'', was written by {{wp|Rustichello da Pisa}} while he and Marco Polo were in prison, and was only published several years after the events of the game). Eventually, Mario confirms that the Print Block belongs to Marco Polo, and returns to the Gobi Desert to give it to him. Mario tells him that he forgot it, and he thanks Mario for returning it, as he can now return home and show the people there what he has collected from Asia. He also decrees that Mario is now an honorary member of his family, and dubs him "Nun".


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