DiskunĪnother store featured in the movie is called Disk-Kun, a reference to Diskun, the mascot of Japan's Famicom Disk System. That translates to 'Duck Hunt,' the name of the famous shooting game often offered on the same cartridge as Super Mario Bros. Keep your eyes peeled for a French restaurant in Brooklyn named Chasse au Canard. Plumbing commercial - an ad that everyone in the movie relentlessly mocks - is the actual theme song of The Super Mario Bros. Hey, paisanos! The song used in Mario and Luigi's Super Mario Bros. When Luigi gets a call early in the movie, his ringtone is the startup theme for the Nintendo GameCube. What's more, the character is wearing Jump Man's outfit from Donkey Kong. When the man talks, he sounds just like the version of Mario from the games, spinning a clever meta-joke out of his insistence that Mario and Luigi's over-the-top accents sound 'perfect' in their commercial. Not only does he voice Mario and Luigi's father, but he also voices the man playing the arcade machine at the pizza shop.

Charles Martinet cameosĬharles Martinet voices Mario in the games, and although the role was given to Chris Pratt for the movie, the original actor is still involved in the film project. Spike is an enemy in the game, and he's meant to be a foreman at a construction site where the brothers work. Mario and Luigi are given a hard time at the pizza shop by their former boss, a man named Spike who wears a hat that says 'Wrecking Crew.' This is a reference to the 1984 game Wrecking Crew, in which Mario and Luigi starred. In the movie, the name of this arcade game has been changed … to Jump Man. This was the first game that Mario ever appeared in, predating the original Super Mario Bros., though Mario was known as Jumpman back then. I wanted a little bit of Zelda amongst my tourist’s treasure trove, a cushion maybe emblazoned with a Triforce, a Hylian shield lent against the coffee table, a vase of Silent Princesses, you get the picture.There is also an arcade machine at the pizza place that closely resembles the original Donkey Kong. I just love the idea of a world, or maybe a section, with Goomba’s in little green hats or Rupee-shaped purple coins tucked away in impossible locations.

have been far less accommodating to the denizens of Hyrule, Easter Eggs kept to a minimum. We’ve had myriad Mario references throughout the Zelda series A Mario mask on the backpack of the Happy Mask Salesman, Malon’s Bowser pendent and even a Hammer Bro suit in Tri Force Heroes, not to mention the heaving cameo-fest that was Link’s Awakening. For a game so laden with knowing winks to its own past and a focus on new, alien worlds, I really pined for some kind of Zelda cameo. But what does this have to do with Zelda? Well dear reader, as I traveled from kingdom to kingdom, sampling the various delight each had to offer, furnishing my little home from home with statues, knick-knacks and ornamental forks, I felt something was missing.

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