User:Nintendo101

Casual Nintendo historian. Otherwise an artist and a field ecologist. Bio degree. I've had an account here since 2012.

I wrote the character sections for Super Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Super Mario Odyssey. I contributed much of the article for Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Sunshine.

I have been a fan of Nintendo since a very young age. My first Mario games (and three of the first video games I ever owned) were Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Super Mario 64 DS, and Mario Kart DS. These games were good company for a young kid who moved around a lot and had difficulty keeping long-lasting friends.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I sequentially played some of my favorite games in the Super Mario series to 100% completion. This includes, in order, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, and Super Mario Odyssey. It's been really fun! These are great games, and I always wanted to marathon a series like this before but never had the time. It has been interesting to see where the series began and where it has ended up. The design philosophies, the characters, the art directions, world building, level design, narrative, etc. All good stuff. It might be fun to write something about it some day.

My favorite video game character is Yoshi.

Sandbox for current project

Name	Description
Trigger objects
Balloon	in-game
Bell	p. 24
Dune Bud	in-game
Flower	description
Fruit vat	p. 50
M Graffiti	p. 112
Paired Graffiti	p. 112
Nail	p. 96
Red Switch Plate	(red button p. 51; red switch on p. 86)
Slot machine	p. 84
Spray Point	description
Stone slab	p. 26 (might be the same as Stone Wheel)
Tile Set Game	description
Switch (Tricky Ruins)	description
Swinging door	p. 25
Wanted poster	p. 19
Watermelon	p. 57
Window	description
Yellow Switch Plate	description
Climbable objects
Chain-link	p. 46
Flagpole	description
Grate	p. 50
Tree	p. 59
Blocks and platforms
Basket	description
Orange block	p. 73
Boat	p. 19
Brick Block	description
Cloud	p. 107
Crate	p. 24
White box	p. 36 (white box on p. 39)
Ferris Wheel	in-game
Ice block	p. 87
Mirror	p. 56 (also in-game)
Pirate Ship	in-game
Flipping platform	p. 39 (flipping platform on p. 42)
Sandy block	p. 64 (also sand stone on the same page)
Spotted block	p. 69 (spotted box on p. 73)
Rope	p. 24
Trampoline	p. 48
Water Lift	description
Watermelon Block	description
Windmill	p. 34
Mushroom Platform	description
Transportation objects
Floating fluff	p. 107
Hook	p. 48
Lily Pad	description
Manhole	p. 19
Mud Boat	(just boat on p. 110)
Pipe	p. 22 (Red Pipe on p. 22; warp pipe on p. 27)
Purple platform / pink platform / orange platform	p. 52
Roller coaster car	p. 68
Swing	p. 107
Cannon	p. 21 (red turret on p. 66)
Other objects
Arrow sign	p. 48
Clam Cups	description
Board	description
Fish	p. 62 (the school of angel fish that has Red Coins follow him)
Yoshi-Go-Round	in-game