| I played a mario game a long time ago in which you are luigi and you
are looking for mario in a jet ski or something like that. I cant'
remember the name but what was the deal with that game?
- Ken Furlong
Sean Kelly: The only game that had anything remotely related to Jet Skis was Super Mario Sunshine, where you were able to ride Bloopers like them. Of course, in that game you played as Mario, not Luigi.
Kyle Orland: It sounds like Mario is Missing. Jet ski? Did that game have a jet ski?
Jay Resop: The game you are thinking of is called "Super Mario Jet Ski Extreme 2k2 Wipeout 64". It's a rare game that was released only in parts of Wisconsin, Mexico and France. But it's very good, in my opinion. The deal with the game is that you, as Luigi, are looking for Mario in a jet ski or something. You have to jet ski Luigi everywhere. The directional pad changes the direction of the jet ski, the A button moves the jet ski forward, and the B button has Luigi yell out "Mario!!!". You have to move around yelling "Mario!!!" everywhere. And if you yell "Mario!!!" in the right place, you find Mario. After you find Mario, you have to fight King Boo using your jet ski and by using Luigi's Force Powers. Luigi can either swing his light saber, jump really high, or shoot lightning out of his fingers. After you beat King Boo, Princess Peach bakes a cake and everyone is happy.-jay
PenguinMan: Mario is Missing would've been far better if there
was a jet ski involved.
EAM: I don't remember any jet ski, but I think it either has to be Mario's Missing or else its a fan game. Mario's missing is basically am educational game that has you find information to help track down Mario, or something like that. I haven't played it in years but I did enjoy it when I was younger.
MetalMan: Clearly, you are playing 'Luigi looking for Mario in a Jet Ski.' I have no clue what system this game is for, and there's a better chance of it being a Mario Party minigame than it being a full game. If such a game existed, well, I'm sure it would fit right in with all the millions of things Mario seems to be doing. Sheesh, my brain would explode if I had to learn how to be a race car driver, doctor, AND plumber!
PeachFan: I have no idea what the deal was with that game... because I've never
heard of it. Sounds like it might be a little bit more fun than
Waverace, though. Heh. Maybe.
In the cameo list for Mario, you noted he appears in
Kirby Super Star in the Megaton Punching contest along
with Luigi, Toad, Princes, and Birdo (which is true).
You neglected the obvious, he appears as a statue for
kirby's STONE powerup. I'm certain it's in Kirby Super
Star, if it isn't, I'll find the actual Kirby...
There on the battlefield he stands
Down on the battlefield he's lost
And on the battlefield it ends
- sufferingplanet
Sean Kelly: Thanks for the tip.
Kyle Orland: That's far from obvious, but you're right, Mario does occasionally appear as the stone tatue for Kirby. And by occasionally I mean about 1 in 1000 times. Good luck!
Jay Resop: I believe you are correct, it is Kirby Super Star. However, let us analyze the more interesting part of your e-mail, your signature. Where is this battlefield? And who is "he"? Is he me? Or is he him? Or is he really a metaphor for the inner child within all of us, fighting for the respect that we all desire. But why does "he" lose? What does he lose as a result of losing? His mortal soul? And considering this, what has ended? Can't we say that nothing really ends, but there are simply new beginnings?-jay
PenguinMan: That's deep, man. You should be a poet one day. I'd
dig it.
EAM: K.
MetalMan: Yes, however a lot of the main sections are being overhauled, so such 'obvious' cameos will probably just have to wait until the new era pages are up. I think. Anyway, since I've beaten Kirby Super Star back and forwards, I know that's correct. You also missed the endless parade of Mario-related items in the treasure mode. But... your email wasn't quite a question, was it? And... what's with all that weird poetry?
PeachFan: My Kirby expertise started with the Kirby NES game and ended with
Kirby's Dream Land. So, it's not obvious to me. Eheh.
Editor's Note: It should be noted that Kirby's Dream Land came out BEFORE Kirby's Adventure (the NES game)
I've been wondering about this for some time but, how did Mario become a plumber?
- Aaron
Sean Kelly: Would it be political incorrect to say because it's stereotypically Italian? If so, would it be OK to say it coming from someone of Italian background?
Kyle Orland: This is a gripping story, actually. You see, as Mario's father lay dying in a cold hospital bed, he called his sons close to him. With his last breaths, he asked them to come closer... closer.... closer enough so they could hear his raspy whisper. And then he told them... MARIO DOESN'T HAVE A WELL-ESTABLISHED BACKSTORY. HE'S A PLUMBER! HE JUST IS! GET OVER IT!
Editor's Note: And here we are thinking that only Jay can come up with funny sarcastic answers.
Jay Resop: Mario dropped out of high school because he having problems with his mushroom obsession. After many years of therapy, he was finally able to pull his life back together. Then, in order to support his wife Peach and baby (Baby Mario), Mario had to find a job fast. So he enrolled in a quick one-week plumbing training program, and got his certification to be a professional plumber. How did I find out this information, you might be asking yourself? WITH MY ALL POWERFUL MIND!-jay
PenguinMan: Well, obviously being a construction worker wasn't
his gig, what with all the rampaging apes interfering
with his work, so he opted for something a little less
stressful, or so he thought.
EAM: Mario has always tried to be a hero, but before he had princesses to save, he had to settle for toilets.
MetalMan: Well, it's a long story, steeped in mystery and hidden from the common game-player (IE: You). You see, Mario apparently used to live in Brooklyn, New York in the old days. Something about needing a job, I think. Try looking it up on Wikipedia or Google.
PeachFan: I think maybe he got sick of being a carpenter and squashing all those
bugs in the original Mario Bros. game, and decided to change his
career one day. Besides, I don't know if they'd have sold as much
Mario stuff if he was an Italian carpenter. Italian plumber has a
nice ring to it.
We are in star world 4 on the frist star but even when we beat the level it will not let us proceed any further it just keeps us at star world 4 the first star. this is in world 5 and we need help on how to move on PLEASE.
- Boonsaifun1
Sean Kelly: I haven't played SMW for a while. I leave it to the other guys.
Kyle Orland: Answered here: http://www.smbhq.com/users/guides/starworl.htm#Star%20World%204
Jay Resop: Ah, it is a good thing I am here to answer your question. Very good indeed. You should be glad that I am here to answer your question. For you see, I am a master at Star World 4. Not just any master, mind you. But THE Master of Star World 4. How does one become THE Master of Star World 4, you might be asking yourself? Ah, well, you see, that is a long, and interesting story. It began long ago, in a small town. I was approached by this smelly, crazy looking old man, who called himself "The Way". The Way said to me, "Jay, you have the ability to become THE Master of Star World 4. Come with me." I said to The Way, "Hold on a second, I still have to finish my Double Decker Taco I got from Taco Bell for lunch." The Way then said to me, "The Double Decker Taco is only an illusion. There is no taco." At that point The Way took my Double Decker Taco that I bought from Taco Bell and ate it. "You jerk!", I yelled at The Way. I then proceeded to take off my watch, and I threw it at him. As my watch bounced off The Way's chest, he said to me, "Your training is complete." And then, he walked out the door, and I never saw him again.-jay
PenguinMan: Survey says... GAMEFAQS.
EAM: You have to find the secret exit. Check a guide for details.
MetalMan: Eeesh. For the short time I had Super Mario World, I found the Star World to be more like... the Star Underworld! *Really poor rimshot* Well, uuhhh, the people who played that game should be able to help you. Or gamefaqs... the land of information for everything game-related!
PeachFan: Tell us which game you are playing PLEASE.
And then maybe we can help you.
Editor's Note: I'd hate to say this, but when 6 out of 7 responders can guess the game, it's a sign that that other one should play more Mario games. :P
please help me! on sm64 i cant the metal cap and i cant get to boo in big boos haunt big boos balcony and im having trouble on dire dire docks treasur cheats buy the current!
- glitten
Sean Kelly: Super Mario 64 is the Mario game I've (sadly) played the least.
Kyle Orland: How to unlock the green cap here: http://www.smbhq.com/users/guides/sm64_items.htm
Big Boos haunt guide seems to be down. Sean, can we get that back?
Editor's Note: I hate when something links to .htm when it's .html here you go http://www.smbhq.com/users/guides/boo.html
Jay Resop: Sorry, but I can't help you there. I'm not THE Master of using the Metal Cap in SM64. A smelly, crazy looking old man approached me and told me that I had the potential to be THE Master of using the Metal Cap in SM64, but I didn't want him to eat my Double Decker Taco that I bought from Taco Bell for lunch, and so I ran away as quickly as I could. The old, smelly man had a glass eye, a glass leg, and a glass nose. And he smelt like a combination of fresh cut grass, Mountain Dew, and nitrogen gas. If you ever smell this oder, and happen to be eating a Double Decker Taco that you bought from Taco Bell for lunch, watch out for the smelly, crazy looking old man. Don't say I didn't warn you.-jay
PenguinMan: Yeah, that's a hard part. First you need to get
Luigi, and perform a quadruple jump to get up to the
switch in the side of the mountain on Bob-omb's
Battlefield. Hope this helps!
EAM: If I knew what to do I'd help... /me points to guides.
MetalMan: Glitten! Glitten! We're losing your transmission! What's that? Cheating buys current? I think I've deciphered it... well. There's always gamefaqs, although I specifically remember encountering the Metal Cap in a cave near Princess Peach's castle's waterfall.
PeachFan: Ah, Mario 64... I haven't played you in a while. But I do believe,
for the Metal Cap, once you unlock the basement, you go into one room
and stomp down the pillars (jump and then Z), and that will drain the
moat. And once the moat is drained, go out into the moat, and
there'll be a hole in the bottom of the moat. Go in there. That's
the Metal Cap level.
The rest of it I haven't played through since, oh, 1997? And I can't
remember how to get that stuff done off the top of my head. Sorry!
Hi there
First of all, I would like to say how much I love the site and as a mario
fan/collector dude I find it so interesting to find out about different
merchandise and products I wasn't aware of
When I was reading the section about mario walkie talkies, I realised that I
had a set of Super Mario World walkie talkies in their original box and in
working order, so I would like to attach a picture and I would be very
grateful if you could put it on the website somewhere
I would like to ask you guys what was the first video game you ever bought,
I'm 14 years old and therefore I barely remember playing on my NES but I
definitely remember playing on the SNES which I still have today and still
play on. My first game was Super mario all stars and I still have it boxed
to this very day..
Also, the other week I was in the lake district and saw a plumbers van with
the world's greatest plumber painted on the side. So I decided I had to get
a picture of it.
I have attached a pictue of the van with Mario on it and have also sent a
picture of the Super Mario World walkie talkies
Enjoy
Thanks, Alex Goulding
Sean Kelly: Well I'll try to find a place for the walkie talkies pic (probably products page). Don't know about the van though. As for first game? Well I had an Atari WAY back (like when I was 3!), with gems like Donkey Kong and (I think) Pac-Man. When my parents bought my NES, it had SMB/Duck Hunt packed in and we also bought the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game (which is fun, but not as fun as the sequels, which I never got)
Kyle Orland: Thanks for the pic, Alex. We'll put it on our products page.
The first game I ever "bought" after Super MArio Bros. (which came with my NES) was, embarassingly enough, Mickey Mousecepade. Hey, I was 7. It was an awful game that I absolutely LOVED!
Jay Resop: I'm trying to think up a creative answer to this question, but I'm too burnt out by the first five questions. To make the answer short, the first game I bought was Super Mario Jet Ski Extreme 2k2 Wipeout 64.-jay
PenguinMan: Well, technically my parent's bought it, but I
first had the NES Action Set, the one with the
SMB/Duck Hunt combo. Helped stave off a week of
boredom when I had chickenpox. Good times, minus the
itching.
EAM: Hm... first game I bought? I couldn't say. The first game I remember playing was SMB with my cousin, and the first games I remember owning were Commander Keen and Cosmo. Great games. Great van too.
MetalMan: Well, I didn't get to see the pictures, but assuming Sean got them, I think they'll be put up in the Mario products section soon. I always loved all the weird and wacky product ideas they came up with for Mario... as for the first game I played, it was Super Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt for the NES. There's even a video tape of me playing it somewhere. I just turned 6, I think, when I started playing it. Yeah, I was a video gamer from a very young age. Although I only beat that game when I was 13, so it certainly took a while! Anyway, thanks for the pictures and stuff. If you have any other Mario-related product pictures, please send them in!
PeachFan: Wow, I feel old. I actually barely remember when the NES came out (I
was 3 when it came out.) The first video game my family went out and
bought was Mario Bros. for the Atari 2600, because that's all we had
for a little while, and my sister and I wanted to play Mario games.
My son wants to have a Super Mario party for his birthday. Is there
such a thing as Mario party inivitations?
Kay Guthrie
Sean Kelly: Maybe 15 years ago there was such a thing.
Kyle Orland: I remember seeing these back in the 80s. Mario isn't nearly as popular in stationary now, though. eBay?
Jay Resop: I'm not sure if I would want to go to a Mario Party. I bet Mario would just eat all of the food himself and play nothing but the Mario bros. theme in the background. What a jerk.-jay
PenguinMan: I don't think they have official ones, but there's
nothing stopping you from grabbing some pictures from
the internet and slapping something together.
EAM: Maybe, but it would probably be cheaper/easier to just print some of your own. You can find pictures of Mario and friends around the site or easily at Google image search.
MetalMan: Well, I'm sure there are, but for some reason the whole Mario product craze has slowed down in recent years. You might be able to find some at Party City, or if you're feeling adventurous, eBay. You could probably print some too, if you found some nice Mario graphics on the web... yeah. You know, some card-making programs had built-in Mario graphics...
PeachFan: My suggestion would be to download some pictures of Mario and use card
creating software (I think it still exists, last I remember using was
Print Shop, eons ago) to make invitations. It'd probably be a bit
cheaper to do that, too.
In the Super Mario World guide, there is a section for the Twin Bridges,
this is the only section currectly not working, I have not been able to
access it on many occasions.
Thank You
Kevin
Sean Kelly: Yeah, the guides page is a fixer upper. All the guides are being incorporated into the era pages, so just hang in there (though if you really want it now, click here).
Kyle Orland: Yeah, I've noticed a lot of the guide sections don't seem to be working. We'll do our best to restore them from backups.
Editor's Note: Backups not needed for this one. It was another case of wrong extention
Jay Resop: We'll get our crack team of Mario Guide Experts working to fix that right away. Slaves! Get back to work!-jay
PenguinMan: OK, now here you have to get Boshi who's in a
hidden egg in Vanilla Cave 5 then you have to hit the
end gate at the highest mark with exactly 300 seconds
left on the clock and 33 coins. That should open up
Soda Lake.
EAM: That's unfortunate.
MetalMan: Woah, man, that's, like, totally buried on this site. I'm not quite sure where it is myself, so I can't do much other than say that either it was inadvertantly deleted or was mis-linked. This is mostly up to Sean to fix, although I have a sneaking suspicion about those era pages... that is, if he'll have the time to finish them. I think it's just another case of a Bridge too far. Or maybe a Bridge to nowhere? Or Saving Private Bridge. Wait. Bridge of *hit by giant brick*
PeachFan: Aaaaah, I can't use the "new girl" excuse anymore when I have no clue
what I'm doing!
E-mail 1:
Hello, I have a girl that is obsessed with Maro Bros and Nintendo characters. I would like to order beanie babies that I see advertised and would pay any amount to order them but I don't know how to go about ordering. I don't see any information regarding ordering on your website. Please send me information on how to order.
E-mail: 2
I have found exactly what I'd like to order, but cannot figure out how to order. I'm interested in the mario brothers beanie babies...$5 each. Please advise.
- Mike Miller
Sean Kelly: You click on them, use your credit card, make a purchase....
Kyle Orland: You found it on our web site? Were you on the eBay page, maybe? Anyway, eBay is your best bet to find these no longer produced items. Try them.
Jay Resop: 
PenguinMan: I'm going to end up writing something I might
possibly regret, so I'm just going to skip this one...
EAM: My advise: email the correct customer service address. Did it really feel right to send this to a fan mailbag?
MetalMan: You'd be amazed what people think our site is about. I even got an email directly to me asking if my game was broadcast on French Television! But no, we don't sell any, unless you look in the store. Yeah. eBay, or perhaps that eBay thing linked in the store section should help you find them, because all we have are pictures of them.
PeachFan: Uh, we don't actually sell Mario beanie babies. And even if we did...
I think we'd be selling them for a lot more than $5, since most of
them are collectors items or imports (I bought a Peach plush for $15,
and I've seen her go for as high as $45). I hate to say it, since we
say it sooo much... but... eBay?
any one know much about super Mario sunshine? I have 119 or 118 shine sprites 1 or 2 left.
- Heather
Sean Kelly: I don't have anywhere close to that amount (I should play sometime)
Kyle Orland: Jeez! Even I stopped at 70-some. Those sprites got T-U-F tough after that. Also the game started getting a little tiresome, for me. But hey, best of luck to you.
Jay Resop: Sorry, but you're not allowed to get the last 1 or 2 shines. It's against the law. If you do, you'll be arrested. I'm sorry, but that's just how the world works. It's not fair, but that's the way it goes. Go play Chrono Trigger or something.-jay
PenguinMan: A game called Super Mario Sunshine? What on earth
are you talking about? That sounds so ridiculously
childish and lame. If Nintendo ever come out with
something with that name, I'll destroy all my Nintendo
stuff by dropping X-boxes on them repeatedly.
EAM: Nope, I never got that far in SMS.
MetalMan: You've got more shines than me! I can't really help you on that, unless, like, I had magical powers, or, maybe 'The Shining' *Shot* It's time to advertise gamefaqs again, because they probably know where it is.
PeachFan: Unfortunately, I don't know much about Mario Sunshine. I'm too broke
to get a Gamecube. Sorry!
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