They’re missing from the English-language version, sadly, but the original Japanese release of 1996’s Super Mario RPG on the SNES features a bunch of enemies who are very into Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Neon Genesis and even a Sega game.
Today, Nintendo’s iconic plumber stars in two big RPG series — Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi. But longtime fans will remember that Mario’s first experiments with role-playing came through a wonderful collaboration with Squaresoft called Super Mario RPG.
How dare you, Nintendo! How dare you release Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars for the Super Nintendo (800 points) on the Wii Virtual Console on a holiday Monday when I wasn’t paying attention? I could have been playing that all day long yesterday instead of…playing the other…