List of references in video games
Mario characters have appeared as cameos in other Nintendo games over the course of Mario's long history. Below is a list of some of these appearences.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Lon Lon Ranch owners, Ingo, Talon, both look like the Mario Bros. Ingo Talon and Malon wear necklaces with Bowser's head on it.
In the area where Zelda usually stands in the Hyrule Castle courtyard there's a window on the right. Look in it at differnt angles and you can see pictures of Yoshi, Peach, Mario, Bowser, and Luigi.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The Happy Mask Trader carrys a backpack with a Mario mask on it.
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Lakitu appears as an enemy who throws lightning bolts at Link, then dissapears back into his cloud. Bob-omb is also found in this game, and if struck with your sword, will scurry around then then explode. A second hit will cause it to stop, and then explode.
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Li'l Bow-Wow, as known in the Mario Universe as a Chain Chomp is featured in the game and 'befriends' Link as actually helps him access one of the dungeons.
The Legend of Zelda:A Link to the past
One of the houses in the light world village has a painting of mario in it.If Link pulls on it ruppees come out.
Sim City
If your city has a population of 500,000 residents you will earn a Mario statue.
The bonus scenario Freeland has it's trees shapped like Mario's head.
Bowser can appear and destroy your city by selecting him on the disasters menu.
The Tokyo scenario has Bowser walking through the city, like Godzilla.
Uniracers
The Hopper track Wario Paint is a spin off of the game Mario Paint.
Kirby Super Star
Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Birdo can be seen in the "Megaton Punch" mini-game's audience. Several of the items in the The Great Cave Offensive, such as the "Turtle Shell" and "Bucket" are from Mario games. Also when Kirby activates his Stone ability he will (very rarely) turn into a gold statue of Mario.
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!
Mario acts as the in-ring referee.
Virtual Reality Mario Brothers
A couple of students at a computer school created a Mario virtual reality game with a program called ALICE. It is unofficial, but a video can be seen here.
Animal Crossing/Animal Crossing: Wild World
There are several unlockable NES games that can be played, including Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong 3, and Super Mario Bros.. There is also a Mario statue and a Luigi statue. The character Kapp'n sings a song about how he sings better than Mario and Gulliver talks about his goldfish back in Toad Town. There are pieces of furniture, such as Warp Pipes, Starmen, and Fire Flowers to be unlocked with cheat codes. These same furntiture pieces are also availbe in the sequel, Animal Crossing: Wild World. However, they have either be released by Nintendo via wi-fi or are hacked.
PilotWings 64
In one of the games levels Mount Rushmore can be seen and it has Mario's face on it. If the player shoots Mario's face it changes into Wario's.
Earthbound/Mother 2
In the Onett arcade there are several Donkey Kong arcade machines. In the japanese version of Earthbound (known as Mother 2) Mario, Peach, Luigi and Toad are a few of the default names of the games characters. Also the default name for the dog is Yoshi, the one for your favorite meal is "Mushroom meal" and the one for favorite thing is Goal.
