Editing Mario's Time Machine (PC)

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{{game infobox

|publisher=The Software Toolworks

|release={{flag list|USA|1993, 1994 (re-release)|Europe|1993<ref name=TiltFR>{{cite|language=fr|publisher=Editions Mondiales S.A.|page=75|date=November 1993|title=''Tilt'' Volume 119|url=https://archive.org/details/Tilt119/page/n73|quote=''Mario a disparu'', ''Mario à l'école'', ''Mario apprend à compter'', ''Mario et la machine à remonter le temps''. Disponible sur PC.|translation=''[[Mario is Missing! (PC)|Mario is Missing!]]'', ''[[Mario's Early Years! Preschool Fun]]'', ''[[Mario's Early Years! Fun with Numbers]]'', ''Mario's Time Machine''. Available on PC.}}</ref>}}

|genre=[[Genre#Educational games|Educational]]

|modes=Single player

|input={{input|pcmouse=1}}

}}

==Story==

In the year 1993 (1994 in the ''Deluxe'' re-release), [[Bowser]] uses a time machine called a "[[Timulator]]," traveling backwards to different points in [[Earth|human history]] and stealing significant artifacts to place in his personal [[Bowser's Museum|museum]] inside his [[Bowser's Castle|castle]]. With his collection nearly completed, Bowser gloats that not even Mario can stop him now. Mario realizes that history will change forever if he does nothing, so it is up to Mario to use Bowser's own device against him by returning the artifacts to their proper places in time.

==Gameplay==

[[File:MariosTimeMachineMario.png|thumb|left|140px|Mario time traveling]]

When the player arrives in the time period, he must explore and converse with the various residents that live there. In doing so, the player learns about the artifact, the time period, and the person associated with it. To get more information, the player must receive items that some residents possess and give them to others in order to satisfy their needs. For example, in Vienna, one resident will complain about the heat until Mario retrieves a fan and hands it to the person, who will then continue to give information. After the player has talked to everyone, the player fills out a History answer sheet. The answer sheet consists of a two-page biography about the person associated with the artifact and the time period, with blanks replacing several words. The player must use the information they received to correctly fill in the blanks. If the player fills in the wrong answer more than twice, they are forced back into the present; if they succeed, Mario can return the artifact to its owner and return back to the present. After all of the artifacts on a floor have been returned, Mario moves upward to the next floor.

==Historical inaccuracies and other errors==

Despite ''Mario's Time Machine'' being intended as an educational game, it contains many errors in regards to its historical facts.

;[[Alexandria]] (47 BC)

*This section centers on returning [[Cleopatra]]'s staff to her so that she can reign over Egypt; however, she first reigned in 51 BC (despite one of Cleopatra's guards saying that she was "crowned" in 52 BC) at the bequest of her father and alongside her brother, Ptolemy XIII. She then took sole control after a civil war between her and her brother in 47 BC.<ref>{{cite|author=Anderson, Jaynie|title=''Tiepolo's Cleopatra''|publisher=Macmillan|date=December 1, 2003|isbn=978-1876832445|language=English|page=38–39}}</ref>

**Several characters also use dates with {{wp|Anno Domini|before Christ}}; for example, when the handmaiden says that Caesar arrived in Egypt "in 48 B.C.". Though these dates are not incorrect, they would have not been used by people who lived close to fifty years before the birth of {{wp|Jesus}}, and furthermore, this dating system was not created until 525.

*The history pages mention that Cleopatra had three sons with {{wp|Mark Anthony}}, despite one of her children, {{wp|Cleopatra Selene II}}, being female.

;[[Athens]] (369 BC)

*[[Aristotle]] is depicted as an old man in-game, but as Aristotle was born in 384 BC,<ref>{{cite|author=Boeckh, August|date=1858-1884|title="August Boeckh's gesammelte kleine Schriften|page=195|publisher=B. G. Teubner, Leipzig}}</ref> he would have only been fifteen years old. With that in mind, the rest of the interactions with him become anachronistic, as he only became Plato's student when he was seventeen or eighteen,<ref>{{cite|author=Blits, Katherine C|date=1999|title="Aristotle: Form, function, and comparative anatomy" - ''The Anatomical Record''}}</ref> and thus, he has not yet formulated any of the theories that are discussed in-game.

***He also does not know whether the god of wine's name is {{wp|Dionysus}} or Bacchus, despite "Bacchus" being the name adopted by the Romans.

*The history page describes the Academy as the first "university," which is incorrect as it did not offer any degrees to its students.

;[[Calcutta]] (1947)

;[[Cambridge]] (1687)

*The discovery of {{wp|calculus}} is attributed uniquely to Newton, despite {{wp|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz}} also discovering calculus around the same time as Newton, albeit independently; this led to a debate as to who should receive recognition for the discovery.<ref>{{cite|author=Hall, Alfred Rupert|title=''Philosophers at War: The Quarrel between Newton and Gottfried Leibniz''|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=September 11, 1998|isbn=978-0521524896}}</ref>

*A lecturer says that, while Newton was in his twenties, he said that his mind was "remarkably fit for invention." This quote seems to have been sourced from Leon M. Lederman and Dick Teresi's ''{{wp|The God Particle (book)|The God Particle}}'',<ref>{{cite|author=Lederman, Leon M.; Teresi, Dick|title=''The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?''|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company|date=June 26, 2006|page=100|isbn=978-0618711680}}</ref> but the actual quote is "All this was in the two plague years of 1665 and 1666, for in those days I was in the prime of my age for invention and minded Mathematics and Philosophy more than at any time since."<ref>{{cite|author=Hall, Alfred Rupert|title=''Philosophers at War: The Quarrel between Newton and Gottfried Leibniz''|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=September 11, 1998|isbn=978-0521524896|page=10-11}}</ref>

*If Mario offers Halley an apple, he replies that he has already eaten one today "so as to keep the doctor away." The proverb of "{{wp|an apple a day keeps the doctor away}}," however, first appeared in the 1860s.<ref>{{cite|author=Ely, Margaret|title=History behind 'An Apple a Day'|publisher=The Washington Post, WP Company|date=September 24, 2013|url=www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/history-behind-an-apple-a-day/2013/09/24/aac3e79c-1f0e-11e3-94a2-6c66b668ea55_story.html|accessdate=December 19, 2017}}</ref>

;[[Florence]] (1503)

*[[Raphael Sanzio]] mentions that he is working on a portrait of the Pope, despite his portraits of {{wp|Portrait of Pope Julius II|Pope Julius II}} and {{wp|Portrait of Leo X (Raphael)|Leo X}} being painted in 1511–12 and 1518-19, respectively.

**The same painter also gives Mario some "Renaissance Purple" [[Paint (Mario's Time Machine)|Paint]] in what is visibly a modern paint can. Additionally, the term "Renaissance" first appeared in 1858.<ref name="Renaissance">{{cite|author=Johnson, Paul|title=''The Renaissance: A Short History''|publisher=Modern Library|date=August 6, 2002|isbn=978-0812966190}}</ref>

**He also says that Michelangelo is interested in sculpting the Pope's tomb; although he approached the task enthusiastically, he was specifically commissioned by the Pope to construct the tomb.<ref>{{cite|author=Vasari, Giorgio; Foster, Jonathan (translator); Bohn, Henry G. (translator)|title="Michelangelo Buonarroti" - ''Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects: Translated from the Italian of Giorgio Vasari''|date=1850|page=246|isbn=978-0375760365}}</ref>

;[[Florence]] (1505)

*An old fresco painter describes [[Leonardo da Vinci]] as a "Renaissance Man." The term "Renaissance" was not used during the period,<ref name="Renaissance"/> and the whole expression first appeared in 1906.<ref>{{cite|title="Renaissance Man"|publisher=''Merriam-Webster''|url=www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Renaissance%20man|accessdate=December 19, 2017}}</ref>

*The history pages say that Europe was in a 1000-year "slumber" before the Renaissance, which brought a new age of science and art. However, this completely ignores how the Middle Ages contained Renaissances of its own, including the {{wp|Carolingian Renaissance}} and the {{wp|Renaissance of the 12th century}}.

;[[Gobi Desert]] (1292)

*[[Kublai Khan]] suggests that his father was {{wp|Ögedei Khan}}, despite his actual father being {{wp|Tolui}}.

**Also, they are insistent on its title being "Book of Marco Polo," but this is not the actual title of the book. It is ''Les voyages de Marco Polo''<ref name="WDL Voyages">{{cite|title="The Travels of Marco Polo" - ''WDL RSS''|publisher=National Library of Sweden|url=www.wdl.org/en/item/14300/|accessdate=December 19, 2017}}</ref> (''The voyages of Marco Polo'') or ''Le Devisement du Monde''<ref>{{cite|author=Florescu, Mihaela L.|title="Marco Polo's Le Devisement Du Monde – Narrative Voice, Language and Diversity by Simon Gaunt (Review)" - ''Comitatus''|publisher=Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA|date=August 20, 2014|url=muse.jhu.edu/article/552501}}</ref> (''The Description of the World'') in French, ''Il Milione'' (''The Million'') in Italian,<ref>{{cite|author=Polo, Marco; Pizzorusso, Valeria Bertolucci (editor)|title=''Il Milione Letteratura italiana Einaudi''|date=1975|archive=web.archive.org/web/20050131044534/http://www.letteraturaitaliana.net/PDF/Volume_1/t24.pdf|accessdate=May 5, 2024}}</ref> and ''The Travels of Marco Polo''<ref name="WDL Voyages"/> in English. The closest name is an 1871 English translation by {{wp|Henry Yule}} titled, ''The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East''.<ref>{{cite|author=Yule, Henry|title=''The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East'' Vol. 1|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=1871}}</ref>

*A sage claims that China had glasses when Europe did not, but this is incorrect: they were first documented in Italy in 1306,<ref>{{cite|author=Ilardi, Vincent|title-"The Invention of Spectacles Revisited" - ''Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes'', vol. 259|publisher=American Philosophical Society|date=2007|page=4–5|isbn=978-0871692597}}</ref> while none of Marco Polo's writings reference them.<ref>{{cite|author=Needham, Joseph|title="Eye-Glasses and Spectacles" - ''Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. 4: Physics and Physical Technology''|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=1962|page=118–119}}</ref>

;[[London]] (1595)

*The history pages suggest that [[Queen Elizabeth I]]'s support is what allowed [[William Shakespeare]] to flourish. Although she watched some of his plays,<ref>{{cite|title="Did Queen Elizabeth I or Any of the Monarchs of the Time See Any of the Tragedies or Comedies Staged at the Globe Theatre?"|publisher=The Guardian, Guardian News and Media|date=2011|url=www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-2526,00.html|accessdate=December 30, 2017}}</ref> she was not a patron of his.

;[[London]] (1831)

*The [[Magnet (Mario's Time Machine)|Magnet]] item is supposedly an {{wp|electromagnet}}, and yet it resembles a {{wp|horseshoe magnet}}, which is a kind of {{wp|Magnet|permanent magnet}}.

*Several characters are waiting for Faraday's upcoming lecture, but he did not give a Christmas Lecture in 1831.<ref name="Christmas Lectures"/>

*The history pages state that Faraday is the only scientist to have both an {{wp|International System of Units|SI unit}} and a {{wp|physical constant}} named after them. This is incorrect: [[Isaac Newton]] and {{wp|Charles-Augustin de Coulomb}} both share the honor.<ref>{{cite|author=Wikipedia contributors|title="List of scientists whose names are used as SI units"|publisher=Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia|date=August 22, 2017|accessdate=December 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=Wikipedia contributors|title="List of scientists whose names are used in physical constants"|publisher=Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia|date=June 23, 2017|accessdate=December 20, 2017}}</ref>

;[[London]] (1843)

*[[Catherine Dickens]] mentions her ten children, but six of them ({{wp|Francis Dickens|Francis}}, {{wp|Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens|Alfred}}, {{wp|Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens|Sydney}}, {{wp|Henry Fielding Dickens|Henry}}, {{wp|Dora Annie Dickens|Dora}}, and {{wp|Edward Dickens|Edward}}) were born after 1843.

**She also references ''{{wp|David Copperfield}}'', which was first serialized from 1849 to 1850 and first published in 1850.<ref>{{cite|author=Dickens, Charles|title=The Personal History of David Copperfield|publisher=Bradbury & Evans|archive=web.archive.org/web/20221005222941/https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22648973147}}</ref>

;[[Luoyang]] (105 AD)

*Emperor [[Ho Ti]] says that [[Ts'ai Lun]] produced amazing weapons for him in AD 97, and he promoted him as a result; this actually took place in AD 89.<ref>{{cite|author=Needham, Joseph; Tsien, Tsuen-hsuin|title="Paper and Printing" - ''Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology''|date=August 30, 1985|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=40|isbn=978-0521086905}}</ref>

**He also gives Mario some [[Money]] specifically made of paper, despite the fact that the first paper banknotes were circulated in 1024.<ref>{{cite|author=Headrick, Daniel R.|title="An Age of Global Interactions" - ''Technology: A World History''|date=April 1, 2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=85}}</ref>

*Several characters state that Ts'ai Lun is the first person to have created paper. Although he refined the process,<ref>{{cite|author=Needham, Joseph; Tsien, Tsuen-hsuin|title="Paper and Printing" - ''Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology''|date=August 30, 1985|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=41|isbn=978-0521086905}}</ref> there are examples of paper before Ts'ai Lun's contribution.<ref>{{cite|author=Needham, Joseph; Tsien, Tsuen-hsuin|title="Paper and Printing" - ''Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology''|date=August 30, 1985|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=2|isbn=978-0521086905}}</ref>

;[[Mainz]] (1455)

*Mario receives a [[Tea Bag]] from a librarian, despite tea bags first being created in the opening years of the 1900s and only being commercially available in the 1920s.<ref>{{cite|author=Begley, Sarah|title=The History of the Tea Bag|publisher=Time|date=September 3, 2015|url=time.com/3996712/a-brief-history-of-the-tea-bag|accessdate=December 20, 2017}}</ref>

**The same librarian says that Gutenberg loved to read books as a kid, but not much is actually known about Gutenberg's early life.<ref>{{cite|author=Wallau, Heinrich|title=Johann Gutenberg|publisher=The Catholic Encyclopedia, Robert Appleton Company|url=www.newadvent.org/cathen/07090a.htm|accessdate=December 20, 2017}}</ref>

;[[Menlo Park]] (1879)

*A hardware store clerk says that he has all of [[Thomas Edison]]'s phonograph records, including "{{wp|Mary Had a Little Lamb}}." While Edison did indeed test his invention with the poem,<ref>{{cite|author=Stross, Randolph|title=The Incredible Talking Machine|publisher=TIME.com|date=June 23, 2010|archive=web.archive.org/web/20130817090940/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1999143_1999210_1999211,00.html|accessdate=December 20, 2017}}</ref> this recording was not publicly available.

*A hotel owner mentions Edison's creation of an {{wp|alkaline battery}}, which he only patented in 1904.<ref>Edison, Thomas. Edison Storage Battery Co. ''Alkaline Battery''. No. US 827297 A, 1904.</ref>

;[[Orleans]] (1429)

*[[Joan of Arc]]'s [[Shield (Mario's Time Machine)|Shield]] depicts her coat of arms, but the game takes place during the siege on the Tourelles (which took place on May 7<ref>{{cite|title="Orleans" - ''The Encyclopædia Britannica'', 11th ed., vol. 20|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=1911|page=287}}</ref>) and her coat of arms was only granted to her on June 2.<ref>{{cite|title="Joan of Arc's Coat of Arms" - ''Maid of Heaven''|publisher=Maid of Heaven Foundation|date=2007|url=www.maidofheaven.com/joanofarc_coat_of_arms.asp|accessdate=December 29, 2017}}</ref>

;[[Trinidad|Pacific Ocean]] (1521)

*[[Juan Sebastian Del Cano]] describes [[Ferdinand Magellan]]'s wanderlust, and how he wants to travel the world simply for the sake of it. However, from the start, his intention was to discover a route to the {{wp|Maluku Islands}}.<ref>{{cite|author=Guillemard, Francis Henry Hill|title="The Passage of the Strait" - ''The Life of Ferdinand Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the Globe: 1480-1521''|publisher=George Phillip & Son|date=1891|page=67, 82, 93, and 102}}</ref>

*Mario receives a [[Rat Trap]] holding a {{wp|Mousetrap#Spring-loaded_bar_mousetrap|spring-loaded bar}} from the ship's bosun, despite this being first patented in 1894.<ref>Hooker, William C. ''Animal-trap''. No. US 827297 A, Nov 6, 1894.</ref>

*Ferdinand suddenly decides to give the {{wp|Strait of Magellan}} its name after an off-hand comment from Mario. However, he called it the "Estrecho de Todos los Santos" ("Channel of All Saints"), after {{wp|All Saints' Day}}; his crew was the one who named the ship after their captain.<ref>{{cite|author=Guillemard, Francis Henry Hill|title="The Passage of the Strait" - ''The Life of Ferdinand Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the Globe: 1480-1521''|publisher=George Phillip & Son|date=1891|page=213-214}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=Murphy, Patrick J.; Coye, Ray W.|title="Magellan" - ''Mutiny and Its Bounty: Leadership Lessons from the Age of Discovery''|publisher=Yale University Press|date=March 19, 2013|page=63|isbn=978-0300170283}}</ref>

;[[Padua]] (1610)

*When contrasting [[Galileo Galilei]]'s ideas, the text-only discusses Aristotle's original {{wp|geocentric model}} of the solar system's orbit while failing to bring up {{wp|Tycho Brahe}}'s {{wp|Tychonic system}}, which was also prevalent at the time.<ref>{{cite|author=Finocchiaro, Maurice A.|title="Introduction" - ''Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992''|publisher=University of California Press|date=October 17, 2007|page=5|isbn=978-0520253872}}</ref>

**Also, the term "telescope" was first coined in 1612.<ref>{{cite|author=Fahie, J. J.|title="Fourth Visit to Rome - Return to Florence" - ''Galileo: His Life And Work''|publisher=John Murray|date=1903|page=210}}</ref>

*The history pages state that Galileo listened to a lecture on astronomy that convinced him to pursue mathematics; the lecture was actually about geometry.<ref>{{cite|author=Asimov, Isaac|title="Galileo" - ''Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology'', 2nd ed.|publisher=Doubleday|isbn=978-0385177719|date=June 16, 1982|page=100}}</ref>

;[[Paris]] (1885)

*A waiter claims that [[Louis Pasteur]] was the first person to discover {{wp|microorganism}}s, ignoring the previous work of scientist {{wp|Antonie van Leeuwenhoek}}.<ref>{{cite|author=Lane, Nick|title="The Unseen World: Reflections on Leeuwenhoek (1677) 'Concerning Little Animals'" - ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences'', vol. 370, no. 1666, doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0344|date=April 19, 2015}}</ref>

**The history pages also assert that Louis was the first person to discuss that microorganisms travel through the air, ignoring both Leeuwenhoek and the analyses of {{wp|Marcus Terentius Varro}}.<ref>{{cite|author=Varro, Marcus Terentius; Thayer, Bill (editor); Hooper, W. D. (translator); Ash, H. B. (translator)|title="Varro on Agriculture" - ''LacusCurtius''|publisher=University of Chicago|date=2014|url=penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/varro/de_re_rustica/1*.html|accessdate=December 30, 2017}}</ref>

**The same waiter also says that Louis set up night classes for workers like him; though technically true, this is misleading, as his classes were open to the general public.<ref>{{cite|author=Debré, Patrice; Forster, Elborg (translator)|title="Fermentations and Life" - ''Louis Pasteur'',|pubisher=John Hopkins University Press|date=August 6, 1998|page=85|isbn=978-0801858086}}</ref>

;[[Philadelphia]] (1752)

*Mario obtains a [[Penny (item)|Penny]] from a constable, despite the first American pennies only being minted in 1793.<ref>{{cite|url=www.allcoinvalues.com/united-states-of-america/united-states-of-america-penny-281-cent29-values.html|title=One Cent values - United States|publisher=AllCoinValues.com|accessdate=December 6, 2017}}</ref>

**She also attributes the quote "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" to Benjamin, despite it appearing in a book published over 100 years earlier.<ref>{{cite|author=Clarke, John|title="Diligentia" - ''Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina in Usum Scholarum Concinnata. Or Proverbs English, and Latine, Methodically Disposed According to the Common-Place Heads, in Erasmus His Adages. Very Use-Full and Delightfull for All Sorts of Men, on All Occasions. More Especially Profitable for Scholars for the Attaining Elegancie, Sublimitie, and Varietie of the Best Expressions''|publisher=Felix Kyngston for Robert Mylbourne|date=1639|page=91|url=quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a18943.0001.001;node=A18943.0001.001%3A86.2;seq=200|accessdate=December 30, 2017}}</ref>

***She also attributes the quote "A penny saved is a penny earned" to him, despite there being no proof for him ever saying it.<ref>{{cite|author=Martin, Gary|title="A Penny Saved Is a Penny Earned"|publisher=The Phrase Finder|date=2017|url=www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-penny-saved-is-a-penny-earned.html|accessdate=December 30, 2017}}</ref>

;[[Philadelphia]] (1776)

*An innkeeper calls the American army the "Continental Forces" and not the {{wp|Continental Army}}.

*Though the game depicts Thomas and the other {{wp|Founding Fathers of the United States}} signing the [[Declaration of Independence]] on July 4, this event took place on August 2; July 4 was when Congress approved the document.<ref>{{cite|author=Bomboy, Scott|title="On This Day, the Declaration of Independence Is Officially Signed"|publisher=National Constitution Center|date=August 2, 2017|url=constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-the-declaration-of-independence-is-officially-signed|accessdate=December 30, 2017}}</ref>

*The history pages describe Thomas Jefferson's book collection as "the nucleus of the {{wp|U.S. Library of Congress|Library of Congress}}." This is slightly misleading: the Library of Congress was founded in 1800,<ref>{{cite|title="The Library of Congress, 1800-1992" - ''Jefferson's Legacy''|publisher=Library of Congress|date=2006|url=www.loc.gov/loc/legacy/loc.html|accessdate=December 30, 2017}}</ref> and he sold his personal collection to the library in 1812.<ref>{{cite|title=Thomas Jefferson|publisher=LibraryThing|date=September 3, 2007|url=www.librarything.com/profile/ThomasJefferson|accessdate=December 30, 2017}}</ref>

;[[Stratford-upon-Avon]] (1601)

*Numerous characters quote lines from [[William Shakespeare]]'s plays. For example, [[Anne Hathaway]] says "Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand?" from ''{{wp|Macbeth}}'' (believed to have been written in 1606<ref>{{cite|date=2014|url=www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/higher/english/macbeth/background/revision/1|title=Macbeth: Background|publisher=BBC.com|accessdate=December 6, 2017}}</ref>), and an unnamed man quotes "O brave new world, that has such people in't" from ''{{wp|The Tempest}}'' (believed to have been written in 1611<ref>{{cite|author=Bevington, David|date=April 26, 2017|url=www.britannica.com/topic/The-Tempest|title=The Tempest|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|accessdate=December 6, 2017}}</ref>)

*[[Richard Burbage]] claims that Shakespeare has written "some 24" plays; although certain sources line up with this statement,<ref>{{cite|author=Chambers, Edmund Kerchever|title=''William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems'', 1st ed., vol. 1|publisher=Oxford University|date=1930|page=270–271}}</ref> it is generally difficult to precisely determine when each play was written.<ref>{{cite|author=Wikipedia contributors|title="Romeo and Juliet", "Date and time" section|publisher=Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia|date=December 16, 2017|accessdate=December 16, 2017}}</ref>

*An unnamed man in Stratford-upon-Avon brings up the theories that Shakespeare's plays were actually written by {{wp|Francis Bacon}} or by {{wp|Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford}}. This is despite those theories first appearing in 1857<ref>Bacon, Delia (1857). ''The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspeare Unfolded''. Groombridge and Sons, London.</ref> and 1920,<ref>{{cite|author=Looney, J. Thomas|date=1920|title=''"Shakespeare" identified in Edward De Vere, the seventeenth earl of Oxford''|publisher=C. Palmer, London}}</ref> respectively.

;[[Tuskegee]] (1915)

*The game shows [[Booker T. Washington]] and [[Henry Ford]] working together, despite never meeting in real life.

*The history pages claim that Carver was widely known as the "Root Doctor"; beyond the fact that he was very infrequently called that, a "root doctor" was a term that described people using {{wp|Hoodoo (folk magic)|Hoodoo}} (a kind of voodoo magic), and not a proper noun as the game uses it.<ref>{{cite|author=Hutchins, Zachary|url=docsouth.unc.edu/highlights/carver.html|title=George Washington Carver: Advocate for Southern Farmers"|publisher=docsouth.unc.edu, Documenting the American South|date=2004|accessdate=December 30, 2017}}</ref>

**They also claim that Carver turned down an offer to work at Thomas Edison's lab for a salary of $100,000. The offer was genuine, but the salary is likely an exaggeration on Carver's part.<ref>{{cite|title="Did George Washington Carver Really Turn Down A Job Offer from Edison?"|publisher=Thomas A. Edison Papers, Rutgers University|date=October 28, 2016|url=edison.rutgers.edu/myth.htm}}</ref>

;[[Vienna]] (1791)

*[[Constanze Mozart]] says that [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]'s father, {{wp|Leopold Mozart}}, died "three years ago", when it was actually four years ago in 1787.<ref>{{cite|author=Bjornstad, William|title="Leopold Mozart (1719-1787)"|publisher=Find A Grave Memorial|date=June 4, 1998|url=www.findagrave.com/memorial/3017}}</ref>

***They also claim that he was buried in an unmarked grave because he was poor, when this was standard practice at the time.<ref>{{cite|author=Wilde, Robert|title="Why Mozart Wasn't Buried in a Pauper's Grave"|publisher=ThoughtCo|date=July 2, 2017|url=thoughtco.com/where-was-mozart-buried-1221267|accessdate=December 30, 2017}}</ref>

****They also claim that the location of his burial site is unknown; although it is not completely certain that Wolfgang rests there, he does have a burial site that was erected in the 1800s.<ref>{{cite|author=Brownlow, Mark|title="Mozart's Grave" - ''Visiting Vienna''|date=May 3, 2016|url=www.visitingvienna.com/footsteps/mozarts-grave|accessdate=December 30, 2017}}</ref>

;[[Vienna]] (1824)

*An innkeeper claims that [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] "threatened" to premiere his {{wp|Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Ninth Symphony}} in Germany instead of Austria. This is slightly misleading: Beethoven considered performing in {{wp|Berlin}} in response to (what he perceived to be) a decline in musical taste within Vienna, but in response, numerous Viennese citizens convinced him to stay while praising his talent.<ref>{{cite|author=Sachs, Harvey|title="A Grand Symphony with Many Voices" - ''The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824''|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|date=June 15, 2010|page=29–32|isbn=978-1400060771}}</ref>

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