User blog comment:Goldenshane/My Personal Top Twenty Video Games./@comment-1221823-20110108221336/@comment-1221823-20110111031937

I like to think in Mario canon of its history. In my opinion, Mario still lived in Brooklyn when Donkey Kong took place, and while Mario was just Mario, the "princess" everyone mentions wasn't even actually a princess as mentioned by Word of God--I think her name on it was Lady, and later Pauline, so he obviously wasn't in the Mushroom Kingdom at the time. Mario had nearly found the Mushroom Kingdom in Mario Bros., but instead found a sewage pipe with Luigi in his plumbing business. It wasn't until Super Mario Bros. that he had accidentally warped into the Mushroom Kingdom, finding no way to get back, and he set out on a quest to find Christine. I assume that Bowser's kidnapping of Princess Toadstool wasn't probably even kidnapping, but actually flirtatious in a sense, and Peach didn't like Mario as much as Bowser, who fake-kidnapped her in a way. And then everyone rode Go-Karts together and found the princess in a random hotel in a game that shall not be mentioned, and then Luigi starred in some disgraced games, and then...okay, I give up