User:Nintendo101

Casual Nintendo historian. Otherwise an artist and a field ecologist. Bio degree. I've had an account here since 2012.

I wrote the character sections for Super Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Super Mario Odyssey. I contributed much of the article for Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Sunshine.

I have been a fan of Nintendo since a very young age. My first Mario games (and three of the first video games I ever owned) were Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Super Mario 64 DS, and Mario Kart DS. These games were good company for a young kid who moved around a lot and had difficulty keeping long-lasting friends.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I sequentially played some of my favorite games in the Super Mario series to 100% completion. This includes, in order, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, and Super Mario Odyssey. It's been really fun! These are great games, and I always wanted to marathon a series like this before but never had the time. It has been interesting to see where the series began and where it has ended up. The design philosophies, the characters, the art directions, world building, level design, narrative, etc. All good stuff. It might be fun to write something about it some day.

My favorite video game character is Yoshi.

Sandbox for current project

Name	Description
Trigger objects
File:Nocoverart.png Balloon	in-game
File:Nocoverart.png Bell	p. 24
Dune Bud	in-game
File:Nocoverart.png Flower	description
File:Nocoverart.png Fruit vat	p. 50
Scribbled M	p. 112
File:Nocoverart.png Pairs of scribbles	p. 112
File:Nocoverart.png Nail	p. 96
Red Switch Plate	(red button p. 51; red switch on p. 86)
File:Nocoverart.png Slot machine	p. 84
File:Nocoverart.png Spray Point	description
Stone slab	p. 26 (might be the same as Stone Wheel)
File:Nocoverart.png Tile Set Game	description
File:Nocoverart.png Switch (Tricky Ruins)	description
File:Nocoverart.png Swinging door	p. 25
File:Nocoverart.png Wanted poster	p. 19
Watermelon	p. 57
File:Nocoverart.png Window	description
File:Nocoverart.png Yellow Switch Plate	description
Climbable objects
File:Nocoverart.png Chain-link	p. 46
Flagpole	description
File:Nocoverart.png Grate	p. 50
Tree	p. 59
Blocks and platforms
File:Nocoverart.png Basket	description
Orange block	p. 73
Boat	p. 19
Brick Block	description
File:Nocoverart.png Cloud	p. 107
Crate	p. 24
File:Nocoverart.png Giant block	p. 36 (white box on p. 39)
File:Nocoverart.png Ferris Wheel	in-game
Ice block	p. 87
File:Nocoverart.png Mirror	p. 56 (also in-game)
File:Nocoverart.png Pirate Ship	in-game
File:Nocoverart.png Blue and red platforms	p. 39 (flipping platform on p. 42)
Sandy block	p. 64 (also sand stone on the same page)
Spotted block	p. 69 (spotted box on p. 73)
File:Nocoverart.png Rope	p. 24
File:Nocoverart.png Trampoline	p. 48
File:Nocoverart.png Water Lift	description
Watermelon Block	description
File:Nocoverart.png Windmill	p. 34
Transportation objects
File:Nocoverart.png Floating fluff	p. 107
File:Nocoverart.png Hook	p. 48
Lily Pad	description
Manhole	p. 19
Mud Boat	(just boat on p. 110)
File:Nocoverart.png Pipe	p. 22 (Red Pipe on p. 22; warp pipe on p. 27)
File:Nocoverart.png Purple platform / pink platform / orange platform	p. 52
Roller coaster car	p. 68
File:Nocoverart.png Swing	p. 107
File:Nocoverart.png Cannon	p. 21 (red turret on p. 66)
Other objects
Arrow sign	p. 48
File:Nocoverart.png Clam Cups	description
Board	description
Fish	p. 62 (the school of angel fish that has Red Coins follow him)
Yoshi-Go-Round	in-game