Mario's Time Machine

Mario's Time Machine is an edutainment game released on the NES and DOS in 1993 and later released on the SNES in 1994.

Story
Bowser uses a time machine to steal various relics from the past in hopes of displaying them in his museum. Mario knows this will change the course of history. He sets off, with Yoshi, to Bowser's Museum in hopes of stopping Bowser before it's too late. However, on their journey, Yoshi runs ahead and gets captured by Bowser. Mario's quest has now become a rescue mission.

Gameplay
Mario starts off by picking a door in the hub that is Bowser's Museum. Next, Mario had to go through a Mario Bros. esque minigame and recover an artifact. Then, he must enter the time machine and return the artifact to it's rightful place in time.

Trivia

 * In the NES version, the main hall of Bowser's Museum contains pictures of Yoshi and Donkey Kong Jr., as well as statues of stars and Bowser himself.


 * Each time period is home to at least one historical person that had that is important to that era.