Editing Mario Mania

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'''''Mario Mania''''' (originally titled '''''The Complete Mario''''') is a book published by ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' in August 1991. It is one of the earliest installments of the official [[Nintendo]] Player's Guide series, and its main feature is a detailed strategy guide for ''[[Super Mario World]]'', but its first 32 pages are devoted to the history of [[Mario]] up to that point. Included are:
* Full-page profiles for Mario and [[Luigi]].
* A "Best Friends" page providing brief profiles for [[Pauline]], [[Toad]], [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]], [[Yoshi]], the [[kings]] of the [[Mushroom World]], the [[Super Mushroom]], the [[Fire Flower]], and the [[Super Star|Starman]].
* A three-page "Worst Enemies" chapter providing brief profiles for [[Bowser]], the [[Koopalings]], [[Donkey Kong]], [[Wart]], [[Birdo]], [[Mouser]], and various enemies in the series.
* Detailed descriptions of ''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]'', ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. (game)|Donkey Kong Jr.]]'', ''[[Mario Bros. (game)|Mario Bros.]]'', ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', ''[[Super Mario Land]]'', and ''[[Dr. Mario (game)|Dr. Mario]]''.
* A one-page list of Mario's cameos in [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]] and [[Game Boy]] games.
* Two pages devoted to showing off Mario merchandise.
* Two pages about ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'' and ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', as well as short blurbs about ''[[Saturday Supercade]]'' and the then-upcoming [[Super Mario World (television series)|''Super Mario World'' animated series]] and [[Super Mario Bros. (film)|''Super Mario Bros.'' film]].
* A three-page interview with [[Shigeru Miyamoto]].

In addition, at the end of each [[world]]'s section in the ''Super Mario World'' guide are trivia sections titled "Super Mariology," listing facts about the games of the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]], such as how fast Mario can [[dash|run]] and [[swim]] and the farthest he can go in a single [[jump]], as well as showing the graphical evolution of Mario, the Princess, and Bowser, and a brief description of ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]''.

==Trivia==
*On the page about ''The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3'', one of the pictures is given the caption "In [[Brooklyn]], Mario and Luigi became babies for a second time," referring to the episode "[[Toddler Terrors of Time Travel]]." However, the picture in question is actually from "[[Recycled Koopa]]."
*The blurb about the ''Super Mario Bros.'' movie mentions Luigi being in love with a character named Dianna, indicating that this was [[Princess Daisy (film character)|Daisy]]'s name at one point during the film's development.
*The interview with Shigeru Miyamoto transcribed in this book contains another prediction&mdash;specifically, Miyamoto's quote "Who knows how Mario will look in the future? Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!" Five years later, ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' would feature the debut of [[Metal Mario]].

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