Editing Mario's Time Machine (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)

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{{game infobox
|title=Mario's Time Machine
|image=[[File:Mario's Time Machine Box Art.jpg|250px]]
|developer=[[The Software Toolworks]]
|publisher=The Software Toolworks
|release={{flag list|USA|December 1993|Europe|March 1994<ref>{{cite|date=February 1994|title=''Total!'' issue 26|publisher=Future Publishing|language=en-GB|url=https://archive.org/details/total-26/page/44|page=44-45}}</ref>}}
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|genre=[[Genre#Edutainment|Educational]]
|modes=Single-player
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|platforms=[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]]
|format={{format|snes=1}}
|input={{input|snes=1}}
|serials={{flag list|USA|SNS-8M-USA|UK|SNSP-8M-UKV|Germany|SNSP-8M-NOE/SFRG}}
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'''''Mario's Time Machine''''' is an [[Genre#Educational|educational]] game developed by [[The Software Toolworks]] that was released for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]] in 1993. It is the successor to ''[[Mario is Missing! (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)|Mario is Missing!]]'' It is intended to teach younger players basic world history and was the last game in the [[Mario Discovery (series)|''Mario Discovery'']] series. This game is mostly based on ''[[Super Mario World]]'', which was a common theme of the ''[[Mario Discovery (series)|Mario Discovery]]'' series and ''Super Mario'' educational games.

==Story==
In the year 1993, [[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.

Bowser plans to destroy his time machine, deliberately planning to irreversibly damage history and send the world back to the Dark Ages.<ref>''Mario's Time Machine'' SNES instruction booklet, page 1.</ref>

==Gameplay==
[[File:Mario in Mario's Time Machine.png|frame|left]]
Being a port of the PC release, this version has a few changes to the original game. There is less content overall, so Mario travels to fewer time periods, and there are some graphical changes such as the design of the time machine. During the sequence on time's waves, Mario can move in all directions rather than just forward due to the use of Mode 7 on the water, and he must go in a [[whirlpool]] after collecting ten mushrooms. The true ending is similar to the DOS version, only Bowser's puddle remains on the ground throughout the entire credits, and in addition, Bowser only gapes upon noticing the T-Rex foot coming down on him.
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==Time periods==
Here is a chart of the location and artifact in chronological order.
*369 BC — [[Athens]] ([[Plato]]'s ''[[Republic]]'')
*47 BC — [[Alexandria]] ([[Cleopatra]]'s [[Staff]])
*1292 — [[Gobi Desert]] ([[Marco Polo]]'s [[Print Block]])
*1429 — [[Orleans]] ([[Joan of Arc]]'s [[Shield (Mario's Time Machine)|Shield]])
*1455 — [[Mainz]] ([[Johann Gutenberg]]'s [[Metal Type]])
*1503 — [[Florence]] ([[Michelangelo Buonarroti]]'s [[Chisel]])
*1505 — Florence ([[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s [[Notebook]])
*1521 — [[Trinidad|Pacific Ocean]] ([[Ferdinand Magellan]]'s [[Astrolabe]])
*1595 — [[England]] ([[Queen Elizabeth I]]'s [[Crown]])
*1601 — [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] ([[William Shakespeare]]'s [[Skull (Mario's Time Machine)|Skull]])
*1687 — [[Cambridge]] ([[Isaac Newton]]'s [[Apple]])
*1776 — [[Philadelphia]] ([[Thomas Jefferson]]'s [[Declaration of Independence]])
*1824 — [[Vienna]] ([[Ludwig van Beethoven]]'s [[Music (item)|Music]])
*1879 — [[Menlo Park]] ([[Thomas Edison]]'s [[Filament]])
*1947 — [[Calcutta]] ([[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s [[Flag (India)|Flag]])

==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>
**Cleopatra also says that her staff was passed down from her ancestors, although no such item exists in real life.
*Julius Caesar claims that he is allergic to [[cat (Mario's Time Machine)|cat]]s; though his family line, in general, was afflicted with asthma,<ref>{{cite|author=Cantani, Arnaldo|title=''Pediatric Allergy, Asthma and Immunology''|publisher=Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg|date=December 17, 2007|page=724|isbn=978-3540207689}}</ref> Caesar is not known to have been allergic to or even afraid of cats.<ref>{{cite|author=Hankins, Justine|title="That Sinking Feline"|publisher=The Guardian|url=www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2004/nov/06/weekend.justinehankins|date=November 6, 2004|accessdate=December 20, 2017}}</ref>
**Caesar also boasts about having conquered {{wp|Pompeii}}, despite the town having been acquired by Roman general {{wp|Sulla}} during the {{wp|Social War (91–88 BC)|Social War}} in 89 BC,<ref>{{cite|author=Santangelo, Federico|title="Warfare and Politics: Sulla in Italy" - ''Sulla, the Elites and the Empire: A Study of Roman Policies in Italy and the Greek East''|publisher=Brill Academic Pub|date=December 17, 2007|page=68–69|isbn=978-9004163867}}</ref> before Caesar held any power.
*One of Cleopatra's guards asks Mario to give one of Cleopatra's handmaidens a [[Wooden Snake]] to demonstrate his love for her, and after receiving the gift, she makes a comment about being bitten by the "love scarab." Neither animal is associated with romance or love: snakes are the aggressive guardians of royalty,<ref>{{cite|author=Arnold, Dorothea|title="49. Cobra on Pharaoh's Forehead" - ''An Egyptian Bestiary''|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|date=1995|page=43}}</ref> and can also symbolize chaos, <ref>{{cite|author=Pinch, Geraldine|title="Magic Figurines and Statues" - ''Magic in Ancient Egypt''|publisher=University of Texas Press|date=1994|page=103|isbn=978-0292765597}}</ref> while scarabs symbolize the arrival of the Sun and the reincarnation of humans.<ref>{{cite|author=Pinch, Geraldine|title="Amulets" - ''Magic in Ancient Egypt''|publisher=University of Texas Press|date=1994|page=109|isbn=978-0292765597}}</ref>
*Throughout several lines of dialogue, it is stated that "Ptolemy XI" is Cleopatra's father and "Ptolemy XII" is the brother that campaigns against Cleopatra. However, the numbers in their names are off by one: {{wp|Ptolemy XII Auletes|Ptolemy XII}} was the father and {{wp|Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator|Ptolemy XIII}} was the brother.
*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.
*A councilman mentions that [[Plato]]'s [[Academy]] was founded "in 387 B.C." - while technically correct, a dating system based on {{wp|Jesus}} would not have been used by someone who lived over three hundred years before he was born.
*The same councilman also claims that the Academy will last for over nine hundred years. In reality, the Academy was destroyed in 86 BC.<ref>{{cite|author=Reale, Giovanni; Catan, John R.|title=''A History of Ancient Philosophy: The schools of the Imperial Age''|page=207-208|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0791401293|date=December 21, 1989}}</ref>
*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.

;[[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>
*Several characters state that Newton's [[Principia]] has not yet been published, for example, when [[Edmund Halley]] says that he is still working on the rough draft, but the book was published on July 5,<ref>{{cite|author=Newton, Isaac|title=''Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' - Jussu Societatis Regiae Ac Typis Josephi Streater|date=1687|publisher=University of Cambridge Digital Library|url=cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-ADV-B-00039-00001/9}}</ref> even though the game takes place on December 25.
*Halley also says that he tracked a {{wp|Halley's Comet|comet}} which orbited around the Earth in 1862. This is a typo; the comet passed by in 1682.<ref>{{cite|author=Howell, Elizabeth|title=Halley's Comet: Facts About the Most Famous Comet|publisher=Space.com|date=September 19, 2017, 09:17pm ET|url=www.space.com/19878-halleys-comet.html|accessdate=December 19, 2017}}</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.
*Raphael also says that [[Michelangelo Buonarroti]]'s ''{{wp|David (Michelangelo)|David}}'' is thirteen-and-a-half feet tall, but it is actually seventeen feet tall.
*An unnamed painter says that Michelangelo left the tutelage of {{wp|Domenico Ghirlandaio}} simply because he was bored, but Ghirlandaio sent him to {{wp|Lorenzo de' Medici}} as one of his best pupils.<ref>{{cite|author=Clément, Charles|title=''Michelangelo''|publisher=Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington|date=1880|page=8–9}}</ref>
**The history pages erroneously state that Michelangelo himself "broke his contract" with Ghirlandaio solely because he wanted to study the statues in Medici's garden.
**The same painter also gives Mario some "Renaissance Purple" [[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}}.
*Several characters reference [[Marco Polo]]'s [[Book of Marco Polo]], including a merchant who gives Mario a few pages from it. However, Marco only wrote it after returning to [[Venice]], while he was imprisoned with writer {{wp|Rustichello da Pisa}}.<ref>{{cite|author=Jackson, Peter|title="Marco Polo and His 'Travels'" - ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'' Vol. 61, No. 1|date=1998|page=84–85}}</ref>
**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.

;[[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>
**Also, the game spells his name as "Del Cano," which is a misspelling.<ref>{{cite|author=Múgica, S.|title=Elcano y No Cano|publisher=Euskomedia.org|format=PDF|url=www.euskomedia.org/PDFAnlt/riev/11/11194213.pdf}}</ref>
*Mario gives a [[Telescope (Trinidad)|Telescope]] to Juan, despite them being first patented in 1608.<ref>{{cite|author=Helden, Albert von|title="The Telescope"|publisher=The Galileo Project|date=1995|url=galileo.rice.edu/sci/instruments/telescope.html}}</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>

;[[Philadelphia]] (1776)
*An innkeeper calls the American army the "Continental Forces" and not the {{wp|Continental Army}}.
*Benjamin Franklin brings up [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s {{wp|Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom}}, which he drafted in 1777 and introduced in 1779.<ref>{{cite|title="Act for Establishing Religious Freedom" - ''Education from LVA''|publisher=Library of Virginia|url=edu.lva.virginia.gov/online_classroom/shaping_the_constitution/doc/religious_freedom|accessdate=December 30, 2017}}</ref>
*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>)
**The wording of many quotes also slightly differ from their sources, though this was most likely done to better integrate them into the dialogue.
*[[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.

;[[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>
*The history pages claim that Ludwig gave his first concert at age eight, when he was actually seven.<ref>{{cite|author=Thayer, Alexander Wheelock; Krehbiel, Henry Edward|title="Paucity of Intellectual Training" - ''The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven''|publisher=The Beethoven Association|url=www.gutenberg.org/files/43591/43591-h/43591-h.htm}}</ref>

==Reception==
Since its release, ''Mario's Time Machine'' has received negative reception. It holds an aggregate score of 60.25% on Game Rankings based on two reviews. Nintendo Power gave it a 10.6 out of 20, while Electronic Gaming Monthly gave it a slightly better rating of 6.75 out of 10. The {{wp|Australian Broadcasting Corporation}}'s ''{{wp|Good Game (TV program)|Good Game}}'' described it as one of many "awful" games that used the ''Super Mario'' license, and said that it was "too complicated" for its young target audience.<ref>{{cite|title="Edutainment" - ''Good Game''|publisher=ABC|date=May 11, 2009|url=www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/stories/s2567035.htm|accessdate=December 20, 2017}}</ref> Similarly, authors David Wesley and Gloria Barczak include both it and ''Mario is Missing!'' in the "flood" of poor-quality 1990s ''Super Mario'' games and media made by third parties with no supervision from Nintendo, accusing these two games, ''[[Mario's FUNdamentals]]'', and the ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' film of "nearly destroy[ing]" the entire franchise.<ref>{{cite|author=Wesley, David T. A.; Barczak, Gloria|title="Nintendo's Dark Ages" - ''Innovation and Marketing in the Video Game Industry: Avoiding the Performance Trap''|publisher=CRC Press|date=June 28, 2010|isbn=978-0566091674|page=40}}</ref> Patrick Felicia, who focuses on learning through video games, criticizes ''Mario's Time Machine'' and ''Mario is Missing!'' for their "mismatch" between the gameplay and the presentation, while also praising ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' due to everything being in service of platforming.<ref>{{cite|author=Felicia, Patrick|title="Matching Basic (Cognitive) Activities" - ''Handbook of Research on Improving Learning and Motivation through Educational Games: Multidisciplinary Approaches''|isbn=978-1609604950|publisher=Information Science Reference|date=January 31, 2011|page=334}}</ref>

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|Steve Grant, [http://www.somethingawful.com/rom-pit/mariotimemachine/ SomethingAwful]
| -42/-50
|''"'''Defining Moment:''' Beethoven telling me to "Go away." As always, I should have listened."''
|-
|"The Cubist", [http://nerdbacon.com/marios-time-machine-snes/ Nerd Bacon]
|5.5/10
|''"In the end Mario's Time Machine is just another educational game as advertised, but it exceeded my expectations as such, if nothing else due to its strengths compared to Mario is Missing! and its relatively robust dissemination of historical information of note. Much like Mario is Missing!, this isn't really a game you'll need or even want to play, though it's a decent example of education done right, at least mostly so."''
|-
|Nintendo Power
|10.6/20
|''"Unlike Carmen Sandiego games, you don't have to know the subject to play the Game. You can actually learn a thing or two. [However,] Non-intuitive commands can make the game frustrating to control. Players expecting a traditional [[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario]] game will not find it here."''
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|[http://www.gamerankings.com/snes/588469-marios-time-machine/index.html 60.25%]
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==Development==
According to programmer Carlos Justiniano, ''Mario's Time Machine'' was behind schedule when he began working on it, and the team developed it over the course of several weeks.<ref>{{cite|url=carlosjustiniano.com/work.html|title=Carlos Justiniano's personal website|accessdate=September 11, 2017}}</ref> Lead artist Maude Church, who worked primarily on adding animations to ''Mario's Time Machine Deluxe'', also said that [[Nintendo]] did not interfere with the game's development; they were mostly concerned with how Mario looked.<ref name="Maude Interview">{{cite|author=Time Turner|title=[[mb:posts/1969551|Interview with Maude Church]]|date=2017|publisher=Super Mario Boards|accessdate=October 7, 2017}}</ref> The team was also focused on being historically accurate - though for the final level that featured the game's developers within the game itself, it was simply a "little personal moment with a laugh".<ref name="Maude Interview"/>

==References to other games==
*''[[Super Mario World]]'': Most of the music cues are direct arrangements of music cues from ''Super Mario World'': for example, the title screen music is an arrangement of the [[Vanilla Dome]] theme which also incorporates the melody from ''Super Mario World''{{'}}s [[Castle]] theme. Most of the game's character sprites are also repurposed.

==Gallery==
{{main|Gallery:Mario's Time Machine}}
<gallery>
MariosTimeMachineLogo.png|The game's logo
MTM SNES Title Screen.png|Title screen
MTM SNES Time Surfing.png|Mario "Time Surfing"
BowserRunsTimeMachineSnes.gif|Sprite of Bowser
</gallery>

==Pre-release and unused content==
In the first page of the instruction booklet, there is a very rough version of Bowser and his Koopas with the Timulator; the latter resembles the DOS version, although it is still a different design.

<gallery>
Timulator in MiM SNES manual.png|An early opening scene.
</gallery>

==Media==
{{main-media}}
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==Staff==
{{main|List of Mario's Time Machine staff}}

==References==
{{NIWA|StrategyWiki=1}}
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