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." In The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, in an episode titled "Escape from Koopatraz", the location of Koopatraz is based off of Alcatraz Island.