History VideoGame / MarioIsMissing

* TheVoiceless: Weegee in {{Fanon}}. He stared hard to be the world's second-greatest MemeticBadass (behind ChuckNorris), and he's not about to suffer any BadassDecay.

* TotallyRadical:

A sequel, ''Mario's Time Machine'', eventually came, which is pretty similar, but [[RecycledINSPACE WITH TIME TRAVEL!]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: Due to the voice acting in the 1993 DOS rerelease, the game could have one for the 2002 ''MrMen'' video games.

* StupidStatementDanceMix: Exhibited in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UHGIoe5E8g&feature=related this video.]]

* NamesTheSame: Disturbingly enough, even with safe search on, an H-Game of the same name is featured on google ''before'' the actual licensed game. [[Main/DisturbingStatistic Even more disturbingly, that means those searches are more relevant the original game itself.]]

The premise is that {{B|igBad}}owser [[EvilPlan plans to]] [[TheGreatFlood flood Earth]], and he sends Koopas to steal famous landmarks to help fund his operation. Mario, Luigi and Yoshi travel to Bowser's castle to stop him. Mario enters all by himself and gets captured, prompting Luigi to go and rescue him.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The text in the game frequently do this. Most notably, one of the newspapers you read in Kathmandu talks about the 'M' Club, whose members are Mayors of Moscow, Madrid, Marrakech, and Mexico City (they are said to have met the day before in Montana) and want to make Luigi an honorary member for saving their cities. They regret that Luigi's name breaks the whole alliteration thing ([[HypocriticalHumor So do the mayors' actual names]] -- respectively, they're Schmutznikov, Smallburg, I. V. Gottserve, and Devotegetter).

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Bowser's grand scheme is to set of a bunch of Hair Driers at the South Pole melting all the polar ice caps and flooding the world.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Due to the voice acting in the 1993 DOS rerelease, the game could come one for the 2002 ''MrMen'' video games.

The premise is that [[BigBad Bowser]] [[EvilPlan plans to]] [[TheGreatFlood flood Earth]], and he sends Koopas to steal famous landmarks to help fund his operation. Mario, Luigi and Yoshi travel to Bowser's castle to stop him. Mario enters all by himself and gets captured, prompting Luigi to go and rescue him.

* AnticlimaxBoss: After you've completed all of the levels, you have to fight Bowser. Since this game has no life meter and no power-ups, Luigi cannot lose, no matter how many times he gets hit. Oh, and this only applies to the NES version -- in the other versions of the game, the entire confrontation plays out in a cutscene.
** Of course he can't lose. He's [[MemeticBadass WEE]][[EldritchAbomination GEE.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Supposedly, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntvLTrb3Szk this]] video shows unused voices. But TropesAreNotGood...

''Mario is Missing!'' is a geography-based [[EdutainmentShow educational game]] released for the PC in 1992 and {{Nintendo|EntertainmentSystem}} [[SuperNintendo consoles]] in 1993. It was the first game with Luigi as the main character, and the only one until ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' came out in 2001. The PC version is notable for giving birth to the "Weegee" internet meme, based on Luigi's [[UncannyValley creepy sprite]]. [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd AVGN]] did a [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/52147 review]] of the game in summer 2009.

->''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT9Nu9qe3J0 "You won't find adobe here in Nairobi..."]]

->''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT9Nu9qe3J0 "You won't find adobe here in Nairobi..."]]''[[hottip:*:but they do have some spectacular hotels.]]

"...but they do have some spectacular hotels!"

* SpiritualSuccessor: Due to the voice acting in the 1993 DOS rerelease, the game could come one for the 2002 MrMen video games.

* StupidStatementDanceMix: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UHGIoe5E8g&feature=related]]

->''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT9Nu9qe3J0 "You won't find adobe here in Nairobi..."]]''

->''You won't find adobe here in Nairobi...''

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: What Weegee does [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHc0SCrwJvQ&t=1m20s at 1:20 into the ending.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: What Weegee does [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHc0SCrwJvQ&t=1m20s at 1:20 into the ending.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: What Weegee does 1:20 into the Ending. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHc0SCrwJvQ]]

''Mario is Missing!'' is a geography-based [[EdutainmentShow educational game]] released for the PC in 1992 and {{Nintendo|EntertainmentSystem}} [[SuperNintendo consoles]] in 1993. It was the first game with Luigi as the main character, and the only one until ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' came out in 2001. The PC version is notable for giving birth to the "Weegee" internet meme, based on Luigi's [[NightmareFuel creepy sprite]]. [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd AVGN]] did a [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/52147 review]] of the game in summer 2009.

* PaintingTheFourthWall: In all versions of the game, Mario notices the title of the game, and does a double take as if to say "'Mario is Missing'? But I'm not missing!" And then he goes missing.

* AnticlimaxBoss: After you've completed all of the levels, you have to fight Bowser. Since this game has no life meter and no power-ups, Luigi cannot lose, no matter how many times he gets hit. Oh, and this only applies to the NES version -- in the other versions of the game, the entire confrontation plays out in a cutscene.

* CelebrityParadox: One of the missing "artifacts" is KingKong -- the inspiration for Nintendo's very own DonkeyKong, famously inciting a trademark infringement lawsuit from Universal Studios in 1982.

^ WrittenInAbsence: Lemmy Koopa and Morton Koopa Jr. were the only ones not appearing in the PC game. Only Lemmy's absence was explained: He wanted to play in the snow.

* ShoutOut: When Luigi is asked who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the SNES version, the choices are [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Splinter]]. TheIrateGamer admitted this was probably the most amusing thing in the game.

''Mario is Missing!'' is a geography-based [[EdutainmentShow educational game]] released for the PC in 1992 and {{Nintendo|EntertainmentSystem}} [[SuperNintendo consoles]] in 1993. It was the first game with Luigi as the main character, and the only one until ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' came out in 2001. The PC version is notable for giving birth to the "Weegee" internet meme, based on Luigi's [[NightmareFuel creepy sprite]]. [[WebOriginal/TheAngryVideoGameNerd AVGN]] did a [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/52147 review]] of the game in summer 2009.

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"...but they do have some spectacular hotels!"

''Mario is Missing!'' is a geography-based [[EdutainmentShow educational game]] released for the PC in 1992 and {{Nintendo|EntertainmentSystem}} [[SuperNintendo consoles]] in 1993. It was the first game with Luigi as the main character, and the only one until ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' came out in 2001. The PC version is notable for giving birth to the "Weegee" internet meme, based on Luigi's [[NightmareFuel creepy sprite]]. [[TheAngryVideoGameNerd AVGN]] did a [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/52147 review]] of the game in summer 2009.