#Yoshi's Safari

[nintendometro]

Japanese Cover Artwork 'Yoshi's Safari' Super Famicom

[lore-of-the-mushroom-kingdom]

Bowser Is A Conqueror

An often forgotten fact is Bowser is a conqueror, and doesn't only kidnap Peach.

Starting with the original Super Mario Bros. Bowser didn't originally kidnap Peach out of love, but rather to prevent her from undoing the spell he cast with her magic in his conquest of the Mushroom Kingdom. And that it wouldn't be until later games would he gain feelings for Princess Peach.

In Super Mario Bros. 3 Bowser kidnapped Peach at the end of the game mostly out of spite for the Bros. foiling his plan.

In Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World Bowser was already invading Dinosaur Land and trapping the inhabitants the Yoshies in eggs with his magic. He only kidnaps Peach in this game as an afterthought.

In Tetris Attack Bowser is trying to take over Yoshi's Island and in Yoshi Tospy Turvy he is terrorizing Eggland.

In Yoshi's Safari Bowser is trying to take over Jewelry Land and Peach has Mario help stop Bowser and the Koopalings.

In Mario Party 5 Bowser tries to take over the Dream Depot.

In Super Mario 3D World Bowser kidnaps the Sprixies and tries to takeover the Sprixie Kingdom.

In Super Mario Bros. Wonder he steals a Wonder Flower and tries to take over the Flower Kingdom.

Finally in Super Mario Odyssey we see Bowser's Kingdom/Country which appears to be another Kingdom he has successfully conquered.

[dummyringbomb]

yoshi takes a minute to look at the scenery and think about things

[wjbs-aus]

Fuck It, I Am Breaking My Silence: a Mario headcanon based on a game that almost everyone has played and one that almost no-one has played.

Warning: this headcanon will

and may leave you

So be warned.

Also all images used in this post are from the Mario wiki. I'm not replaying all of Yoshi's Safari just to make one Tumblr post that it's likely that no-one will end up seeing.

Ok so first we need to talk about Yoshi's Safari.

Yoshi's Safari is. A weird game. I've played it before (using Retroarch, with my mouse and keyboard in lieu of the lightgun). It's an officially-licensed Mario FPS (more specifically a rail-shooter), and it's genuinely kinda fun but also very fucking strange, like there's a light and dark world, and bowser wears a suit of power-armour that never shows up in another game:

None of that is important, however. I want to bring your attention to this character:

This is Prince Pine. He's the prince of Jewellery Land, and the game's main damsel (gender neutral) in distress.

Does he, in any way, look familiar? Let's skip ahead 11 years to 2004, and the release of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. And specifically, to Chapter 5, where we meet the character of all time, Flavio.

Do you notice anything? How about we compare these two side-by-side.

Now, they aren't like. Identical. But they do kinda look similar. Therefore, my hypothesis is thus; Flavio is either A. from Jewellery land, or even B. a member of the royal family.

[timothyjoseph]

Hello everybody, Click the link below to check out my spoiler-free review of every non-3D Super Mario spin-off video game I have played this month.

[satalight]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Mario and Yoshi have had enough.

[aardwolfpack]

It wasn't always like this.

[thepipeplaza]

Fact: While Bowser is known for his frequent kidnappings of Princess Peach in the Mushroom Kingdom, he has also captured other individuals from different locations throughout his various invasions, including political leaders, heroes, infantry and civilians.

[nintendometro]

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[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Mecha Nokonoko

Debut: Yoshi's Safari

Never before in the Mario franchise has a Koopa Troopa meant business to such a degree! You probably know Yoshi's Safari as the "Mario with a gun" game and little else, if you know about it at all. You are probably not at all surprised to learn now that the Koopalings are all bosses in it. Kind of boring, but they pilot some funny mechs that look like they're from Bomberman or something! The REAL interesting thing, however, comes in the later portion of the game...

The game's setting, Jewelry Land, has been split into a Light and Dark realm. The Light realm is where the Koopalings appear, but after they're all defeated, there are more bosses before Bowser! A Magikoopa, a Big Boo, a Chargin' Chuck, and last, but certainly MOST, a Koopa Troopa. As the penultimate boss of the game! Last bastion before Bowser! A Koopa Troopa!

^ This animal right here!

This was the very first time a Koopa Troopa had ever been a larger threat than a basic enemy, and while we have had notable Koopa Troopas both heroic and villainous since, I still feel like this one means the most Business. Maybe some Paper Mario partner Koopas are pluckier. But do they have as much GUMPTION? I guess they could have as much, to be honest, but it's no reason to downplay THIS Koopa's gumption.

"Mecha Nokonoko" really just means "Mecha Koopa Troopa", and that is indeed what's going on here. This Koopa pilots a massive submarine in its own likeness, armed with a bunch of cannons. And I don't really care about the gameplay to be honest I just think this is so so cool! If a regular ol' Koopa Troopa tries hard enough and believes in itself, it can be the second to last boss in a game, trusted by Bowser to be almost his second in command. Wow!

You know how Zelda has a "the hero is defeated" timeline? Mario could have one of those, and it could be right here. Mario and Yoshi are defeated by Mecha Nokonoko, and this specific Koopa Troopa is celebrated in the Koopa Kingdom as a champion, having defeated he who which even Bowser never could for long. And it would become the new leader of the Koopa Troop, as Bowser retires, and Koopa Troopa would realize it's just been following orders this time, and isn't actually into kidnapping and conquest like Bowser was. It just wants to have fun in life, and keep expressing its interest in operating machinery. And then it goes on to become the Koopa Troopa who is playable in Mario Kart (ignore that Super Mario Kart released a year before Yoshi's Safari)! Who knew Yoshi's Safari had so much lore! It's actually awesome!

[lucidsann]

yoshi’s safari.

[slaket-and-sprash]

Crack Team of deep cut Mario charecters to be in the next Mario Kart game:

Jimmy T.

Orbulon

Mona

Dribble and Spitz

Kat and Ana

9-Volt

18-Volt

5-Volt

Fronk

Dr.Crygor

Penny Crygor

Mike

Ashley and Red

Young Cricket

Master Mantis

Captain Syrup

Princess Shokura

Queen Merelda

Geno

Mallow

Smithy

Paper Mario and Huey

Goombario

Kooper

Bombette

Lady Bow

Watt

Sushi

Lakilester

Goombella

Koops

Madame Flurry

Gonzalas jr.

Vivian

Admirel Bobbery

Ms.Mowz

Count Bleck and Timpani

Dimentio

O'Chunks

Mimi

Natasha

Fawful

Prince Peasly

Princess Shroob

Starlow

Broque Monsieur

Prince Dreambert

Antasma

Koopa Kid

Prof E. Gadd

Poulterpup

Chunky Kong

Lanky Kong

Cranky Kong

King K. Rool

Krunch the Kremling

Wart

Prince Pine

[ganondalfff]

Mario out here sinning like he's never sinned before

[lizardbytheriver]

He was gunning down motherf*ckers in Yoshi's Safari in 1993. Lets not pretend this is a big mystery. Lets not pretend Mario isn't a war criminal.

[freakartack]

"I am pretty clever, aren't I? And a good dancer, too." -The quote that was on top of his super mario wiki article for like ten years until they replaced it with something not from a coloring book

Iggy Koopa is a master of machinery but (and?) he is also a complete freakazoid. Praised as "the brainy kid" during his childhood - no doubt to to Ludwig's chagrin - Iggy once upon a time supplied his King Dad with a smorgasbord of Inventions, such as the cloning machine GLOM (my favorite), everything in Yoshi's Safari, and the one that makes you freaky friday switch with a random person (self explanatory). These days, though, his "inventions" are limited to insane rube goldberg machines that do nothing, attempts to break reality as we know it, or dumb pranks. Iggy is completely maniacal and does not give a shit what people think of him; he also considers himself a genius but unlike Ludwig he kind of is. Extremely close with lemmy and loves to show off his instruments of chaos to his easily impressed brother (ironic because when they were younger iggy was the one easily impressed by him). Beyond that though Iggy and Lemmy both deeply admire each other's unflappable strangeness in their own way, and also love causing trouble with each other. Iggy has an affinity for chain chomps and has his own pet chain chomp aptly named Chompy, and he also loves the jungle which is why he made his head into a tree. Oh, and he also has a violent phobia of yoshis as of super mario world because when bowser put him on Yoshi's Island he was scared of the yoshis so he isolated himself on a floating rock and crouched there until@mario came and pushed him off the rock.