{"id":19067,"date":"2019-05-29T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19067"},"modified":"2019-05-05T13:28:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T13:28:30","slug":"super-mario-bros-encyclopedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/29\/super-mario-bros-encyclopedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I was a kid, I read a lot of Nintendo Power.\u00a0 It was Nintendo\u2019s own self-published magazine.\u00a0 But they did more than just magazines, they did strategy guides, too.\u00a0 In fact, I think they helped popularize strategy guides, and theirs were very well written, too.\u00a0 One of their guides was Mario Mania.\u00a0 It was a cleverly disguised guide to Super Mario World, but it also had a large section at the front about the history of Mario up to that point. \u00a0As a kid, I poured over that guide.\u00a0 And now, nearly 30 years later, there\u2019s another Mario history book making the rounds with the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia.\u00a0 I got it for Christmas, so let\u2019s take a quick look at it!<\/p>\n

The book is a very nice hardcover one with full color pages.\u00a0 Here is a larger shot of the front of the book.<\/p>\n

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The inside starts with a four page intro and foreword from Takashi Tezuka.\u00a0 You\u2019d think the intro would be from Shigeru Miyamoto, but Tezuka has been working on Mario games since Super Mario Bros., and probably deserves more credit than he actually gets, so it\u2019s nice to let someone else get the spotlight every once in a while.<\/p>\n

After that they go through every title in the Super Mario series.\u00a0 Meaning, any game with Super Mario in the title gets featured.\u00a0 So no spin-offs or kart games or whatnot.\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame they had to omit a lot of games like that, but if they included them all, this book would be three times as long with ten volumes, so I can understand why they had to do that.\u00a0 Each section in the book features a game, the story, characters, stages, secrets, and memorable moments.\u00a0 There is plenty of artwork and screenshots, too.\u00a0 The book only goes up to Super Mario Maker, so no Odyssey.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a page featuring my favorite Mario game in this book, Super Mario World.\u00a0 Sometimes I think I like Yoshi\u2019s Island better, but it\u2019s not featured in this book even though it does have the subtitle of Super Mario World 2.<\/p>\n

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Even though they don\u2019t feature ALL the games in the Mario series, the book does have special sections with spin-off games and the last part of the book lists every game Mario has been in!\u00a0 I guess the only other problem I had with the book is that they only use the Japanese box art and logos.\u00a0 But this is still a nice book for any Mario fan.\u00a0 Now if only they could make a Kirby Encyclopedia! \u00a0Actually I think they did in Japan.\u00a0 They should bring that over here, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid, I read a lot of Nintendo Power.\u00a0 It was Nintendo\u2019s own self-published magazine.\u00a0 But they did more than just magazines, they did strategy guides, too.\u00a0 In fact, I think they helped popularize strategy guides, and theirs were very well written, too.\u00a0 One of their guides was Mario Mania.\u00a0 It was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19069,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19067\/revisions\/19069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}