La casa de Mario
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La casa de Mario was a guided walkthrough attraction at the Reino Aventura amusement park in Mexico City. The attraction had guests traverse various rooms (referred to as "worlds") themed after Nintendo video games and franchises, play activities, and answer quizzes.[1] It opened around 1995 and closed when Reino Aventura was sold to Premier Parks and rebranded into Six Flags México in 2000.[2] It was the first Super Mario-themed attraction to open at an amusement park, 26 years before the opening of Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan.
Location[edit]
La casa de Mario was located in the Pueblo Suizo (Swiss Village) area of the park, inside a building formerly occupied by the funhouse attraction Casa de la Risa (House of Laughter).[2] The same building was also the location of a store where guests could purchase Nintendo merchandise and play 40 Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Nintendo 64 games. The building's walls were light-blue with a brick pattern akin to the Mushroom Castle's interior in Super Mario 64, and a giant depiction in relief of Mario's face was present on it near the attraction's queue.[1]
Layout[edit]
The attraction began with a section named Antropolo-Mario,[1] a museum where the guide explained the history of Mario and Nintendo with pictures of important Nintendo figures like Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi.[3] Guests were then taken to rooms based on a specific game or franchise, some of them featuring an activity or having the guide ask questions to guests:
- A room based on the Killer Instinct series, where guests had to do squats and say a series of button combinations.[2]
- A room based on the Donkey Kong Country series, which featured Cranky Kong scolding guests.[1] It was decorated with Cranky's rocking chair, animatronic animals, and walls with artwork of Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong in the jungle.[3][4] A mascot of Donkey Kong was also present in the attraction.[5]
- A room based on the lobby of the Mushroom Castle from Super Mario 64, where guests had to find a key to access the following rooms.[1] It was accessed via an elevator which would initially open to a statue of Bowser around fire before the guide would declare that they stopped to the wrong floor, with the doors closing again to take guests to the correct room.[3] Statues of a Bob-omb, a Bob-omb Buddy, and a red Cap Block were present in this room.
- A room based on Tetris, with tetrominos decorating the walls and ceiling.
Other rooms in the attraction included a maze and a rotating tunnel adapted from the previous funhouse attraction which, despite the attraction's overall Nintendo theming, was based on the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars.[4][2] At one point in the attraction, guests entered a submarine that would then be attacked by Bowser, resulting in the guide telling guests to exit it and go down a Warp Pipe-themed slide to the store.[4]
Gallery[edit]
The Bowser statue
The Tetris room
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish (Latin America) | La casa de Mario[1] | Mario's house |
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f La casa de Mario. nintendo.com.mx (Mexican Spanish). Archived February 5, 1998, 05:50:05 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved January 9, 2026.
- ^ a b c d January 28, 2016. La casa de Mario en Reino Aventura, una atracción mexicana dedicada a Nintendo. LevelUp (Mexican Spanish). Retrieved January 9, 2026. (Archived December 19, 2020, 03:26:45 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
- ^ a b c Planet Cool (August 4, 2020). "Casa de Mario" at Reino Aventura, Featuring DK!. DK Vine Forum. Archived February 7, 2023, 17:21:50 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved January 9, 2026.
- ^ a b c GgAboveAverageGamer (September 13, 2018). The first TRUE Mario theme park ride, AKA the house of Mario. YouTube. Retrieved January 9, 2026.
- ^ LSuperSonicQ (July 27, 2020). Super Mario 64 Theme Park Lost to Time - Reino Aventura, Mexico (1995). YouTube. Retrieved January 9 2026.
