San Francisco
San Francisco is sometimes explored by the various protagonists of the Super Mario franchise. It is a city in California within the United States of America.
History
Saturday Supercade
San Francisco appears in the Saturday Supercade episode "The Ventriloquist Caper," where Donkey Kong Jr. and Bones travel to the Golden Bridge Theatre to see the Wrestling Gorilla, whom they believe has information on Donkey Kong's whereabouts.
Mario is Missing!
San Francisco appears in the PC, SNES, and NES versions of Mario is Missing!. In the game, it is one of the first five cities Luigi has to rescue from invading Koopa Troopas except the NES version, where it is instead in the second pair of levels alongside Sydney, Australia. The enemies have stolen a fog horn from the Golden Gate Bridge, the top of the Transamerica Pyramid, and a window from Coit Tower; in the PC version, instead of Coit Tower, they have also stolen a striped prison shirt from Alcatraz and the bell from a Cable Car. To expel the Koopas, Luigi has to find the missing objects and return these to their respective landmarks.
Later in the game, the city is mentioned by a tourist in Rio de Janeiro. When Luigi shows him a cable car that the Troopas stole from Sugar Loaf Mountain, he says that "San Francisco doesn't seem quite so far, when I look at that cable car."
Profiles
Mario is Missing!
| Person | Quote |
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| PC version | |
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"July 4th is the most important date when you're in the land of the fifty states." "Besides the Golden Gate bridge, the cable cars are the stars." |
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"A few American dollars will buy baseball, hamburgers and Mom's apple pie." "California here I am, on the west coast with Uncle Sam." |
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"Welcome to the Golden West. Have you visited that other California city, Los Angeles?" "If you're wandering around in a fog and feeling crabby, have some Dungeness crab on San Francisco sourdough." |
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"This city was named for Saint Francis of Assisi in 1776." "No one was interested in San Francisco until the Gold Rush." |
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"Wherever you go, locals hate it if you call the city 'Frisco." "To be more specific, you're on the Pacific in the northern half of California." |
| NES version | |
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"July 4th is the most important date when you're in the land of the fifty states." |
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"A few American dollars will buy baseball, hamburgers and Mom's apple pie." |
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"Welcome to the Golden West. Have you visited that other California city, Los Angeles?" |
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"This city was named for Saint Francis of Assisi in 1776." |
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"Wherever you go, locals hate it if you call the city 'Frisco." |
| SNES version | |
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"July 4th is the most important date when you're in the land of the fifty states." "Besides the Golden Gate bridge, the cable cars are the stars." |
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"A few American dollars will buy baseball, hamburgers and Mom's apple pie." "California here I am, on the west coast with Uncle Sam." |
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"Welcome to the Golden West. Have you visited that other California city, Los Angeles?" "If you're wandering around in a fog and feeling crabby, have some Dungeness crab on San Francisco sourdough." |
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"This city was named for Saint Francis of Assisi in 1776." "No one was interested in San Francisco until the Gold Rush." |
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"Wherever you go, locals hate it if you call the city 'Frisco." "To be more specific, you're on the Pacific in the northern half of California." |
Newspaper
- Turtles Take Prominent Property
- A lime-green turtle with a giant shell, last seen traveling by turbo skateboard, is the prime suspect in the theft of the fog horn from the Golden Gate Bridge. Ship traffic has grounded to a halt in the fog. Meanwhile, bridge officials have offered a $2240 reward for safe return of the horn, plus a $3200 bonus if it's returned first.
- Lightfingers on the Loose
- Scene of crime: The Golden Gate Bridge
- Artifact: the Golden Gate Bridge fog horn
- Reward: $2240
- Bonus: $3200
- Scene of crime: Alcatraz
- Artifact: the striped prison shirt
- Reward: $1440
- Bonus: $0
- Scene of crime: Scene of crime: The Cable Car
- Artifact: the Cable Car Bell
- Reward: $1280
- Bonus: $0
- Scene of crime: The Transamerica Pyramid
- Artifact: the top of the Transamerica Pyramid
- Reward: $1600
- Bonus: $0
Gallery
The map in the SNES version
The map in the DOS version
