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Mario (other)
Mario is the main character in the ''Mario'' franchise. Mario may also refer to: Film and television * ''Mario'' (1984 film), a Canadian drama film * ''Mario'' (2018 film), a Swiss film * ''Mario'' (Austrian TV series), a 1963 television series * ''Mario'' (Italian sitcom), a 2013 television sitcom series Music * Mario (singer), American R&B singer * ''Mario'' (album), a 2002 album by Mario * "Mario" (song), a 1985 song by Franco Luambo and the TPOK Jazz * "Mario (Your Own Way to Paradise)", a 1983 song by Bow Wow Wow from '' When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going'' People * Mario (name), a given name and surname (includes a list of people and fictional characters with the name) Other uses * 12931 Mario, an asteroid * Mario, codename for one of the builds on ChromeOS * ''Mario'' (franchise), a Japanese multimedia franchise * Mario (goose), a goose which died at Los Angeles Zoo in 2018 * Monte Mario, a hill in Rome, Italy * Tropical Storm Mario, a list of sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario
Mario (; ) is a Character (arts), character created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the star of the ''Mario (franchise), Mario'' franchise, a recurring character in the ''Donkey Kong'' franchise, and the mascot of the Japanese video game company Nintendo. Mario is an Italian plumber who lives in the Mushroom Kingdom with his younger twin brother, Luigi. Their adventures generally involve rescuing Princess Peach from the villain Bowser while using power-ups that give them different abilities. Mario is distinguished by his large nose and mustache, overalls, red cap, and high-pitched, exaggerated Italian accent. Mario debuted as the player character of ''Donkey Kong (1981 video game), Donkey Kong'', a 1981 platform game. Miyamoto created Mario because Nintendo was unable to license Popeye as the protagonist. The graphical limitations of arcade cabinet, arcade hardware influenced Mario's design, such as his nose, mustache, and overalls, and he was named after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario (goose)
Mario was a male Toulouse goose (''Anser anser''), formerly living in Echo Park, Los Angeles who became the subject of news reports in 2011 after forming an unusual association with a local resident, Dominic Ehrler. Mario, who was originally named Maria by locals and assumed to be female, was familiar to users of the park for several years as a goose which preferred the company of humans to that of his own species, often pecking at homeless people or following walkers and runners around. Ehrler, a retired salesman, first encountered Maria/Mario at Echo Park Lake in the summer of 2010 when the bird began to follow him on his daily walks around the lake, readily accepting food from him and soon becoming so attached that he would wait beside the road every morning for Ehrler to arrive at the park. Maria/Mario would walk alongside and possessively 'protect' Ehrler from other park users and their dogs and would also attempt to follow him from the park, flying closely behind him as he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario's Hotel
Palace Hotel, originally built as Broken Hill Coffee Palace, is a heritage-listed pub at 227 Argent Street, Broken Hill, City of Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. It has also been known as the Mario's Hotel and Mario's, and is known for being the location of many of the scenes in the 1994 Australian comedy-drama film ''The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert''. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999, with the entry expanded in January 2025 to reflect its importance to LGBTQIA+ history. History The hotel was originally built as a coffee palace by local members of the temperance movement, as the Broken Hill Coffee Palace. It was designed by Melbourne architect Alfred Dunn and built in 1889 at a cost of £12,190, opening on 18 December that year. The coffee palace was not a financial success, running at a loss for its first three years, and by July 1892 media reports indicated the company and lessees were "stone broke". In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario's
Mario's is an Italian-American restaurant on Arthur Avenue in Belmont, Bronx. in 2000, the James Beard Foundation named it an America's Classic. History The Miglucci family still runs the restaurant after first opening in 1919. In the 1930s, they expanded by becoming a full service restaurant. Scolastica Migliucci and her son Giuseppe, Italian immigrants, opened a pizzeria in Lower Manhattan but opened G. Migliucci Vera Pizzeria in the Bronx in 1919 with six tables. Another source says they opened on Harlem’s 114th Street in 1915. In popular culture The Sopranos (season 4) filmed an episode here which was described by ''The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...'' as "more valuable than a Michelin star". References 1919 establishments in New York Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Bros
is a 1983 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for arcades. It was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi, Nintendo's chief engineer. Italian twin brother plumbers Mario and Luigi exterminate turtle-like creatures and crabs emerging from the sewers by knocking them upside-down and kicking them away. The Famicom and Nintendo Entertainment System version is the first game to be developed by Intelligent Systems. It is part of the ''Mario'' franchise, but originally began as a spin-off from the ''Donkey Kong'' series. The arcade, Famicom, and Nintendo Entertainment System versions were received positively by critics. Elements introduced in ''Mario Bros.'', such as spinning bonus coins, turtles that can be flipped onto their backs, and Luigi, were carried over to '' Super Mario Bros.'' (1985) and became staples of the series. An updated version, titled ''Mario Bros. Classic'', is included as a minigame in all of the '' Super Mario Advance'' series and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marius (other)
Marius may refer to: People * Marius (name), a male given name, a Roman clan name and family name, and a modern name or surname *Gaius Marius (–86 BC), Roman statesman, seven times consul. * Marcus Aurelius Marius, emperor of the Gallic Empire, 269 Arts and entertainment * ''Marius'' (play), a 1929 play by Marcel Pagnol * "Marius" (short story), a 1957 story by Poul Anderson * ''Marius'' (1931 film), a French adaptation of Pagnol's play, directed by Alexander Korda * ''Marius'' (2013 film), a French adaptation of Pagnol's play, directed by Daniel Auteuil Places * Marius (Laconia), a town of ancient Laconia, Greece * Măriuș, a village in Valea Vinului, Satu Mare County, Romania * Marius (crater), on the Moon * Marius Hills, on the Moon Other uses * Marius (commando), Alain Alivon (born 1965), French Navy officer * Marius (giraffe), a giraffe euthanized at the Copenhagen Zoo in 2014 * Marius Pontmercy, Fictional character from ''Les Misérables'' See also * * * Mario (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria (other)
Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial * 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 * Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, dark basaltic plains on Earth's Moon Terrestrial *Maria, Maevatanana, Madagascar * Maria, Quebec, Canada * Maria, Siquijor, the Philippines * María, Spain, in Andalusia * Îles Maria, French Polynesia *María de Huerva, Aragon, Spain * Villa Maria (other) Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Maria'' (1947 film), Swedish film * ''Maria'' (1975 film), Swedish film * ''Maria'' (2003 film), Romanian film * ''Maria'' (2019 film), Filipino film * ''Maria'' (2021 film), Canadian film directed by Alec Pronovost *'' Being Maria'', 2024 French film released as ''Maria'' in France * ''Maria'' (2024 film), American film * ''Maria'' (Sinhala film), Sri Lankan upcoming film Literature * ''María'' (novel), an 1867 novel by Jorge Isaacs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portal (video Game)
''Portal'' is a 2007 Platformer#Puzzle-platformer, puzzle-platform game developed and published by Valve Corporation, Valve. It was originally released in a Video game compilation, bundle, ''The Orange Box,'' for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and has been since ported to other systems, including Mac OS X, Linux, Android (operating system), Android (via Nvidia Shield), and Nintendo Switch. ''Portal'' consists primarily of a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player's character and simple objects using the "Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device", also referred to as the "portal gun", a device that can create intra-dimensional portals between two flat planes. The player-character, Chell (Portal), Chell, is challenged and taunted by an artificial intelligence construct named GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) to complete each puzzle in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center using the portal gun with the promise of receiving cake when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Mario Bros
is a 1985 Platformer, platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It is the successor to the 1983 arcade game ''Mario Bros.'' and the first game in the ''Super Mario'' series. It was originally released in September 1985 in Japan for the Family Computer; following a US test market release for the NES, it was converted to international arcade game, arcades on the Nintendo VS. System in early 1986. The NES version received a wide release in North America that year and in PAL regions in 1987. Players control Mario, or his brother Luigi in the multiplayer mode, to traverse the Mushroom Kingdom in order to rescue Princess Peach, Princess Toadstool from King Koopa (later named Bowser). They traverse side-scrolling video game, side-scrolling stages while avoiding hazards such as enemies and pits with the aid of power-ups such as the Super Mushroom, Fire Flower and Starman (Mario), Starman. The game was designed by Shigeru Miyamot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mari0
''Mari0'' (pronounced "mari-zero" or "mari-oh") is a 2012 side-scrolling platform video game developed by German indie developer Maurice Guégan with creative input from Sašo Smolej and released onto their website Stabyourself.net. It combines gameplay elements from Nintendo's ''Super Mario'' series and Valve Corporation, Valve's ''Portal (video game series), Portal'' series. The game features Mario armed with a "portal gun", the main game mechanic in the ''Portal'' series, allowing him to create two inter-spatial portals on 2-dimensional surfaces which can transport himself, enemies and other objects through them. It was made with the LÖVE (game framework), LÖVE game framework. Development began in 2011 as a direct port of the original ''Super Mario Bros.'' with no clear gimmick in mind. The pair's first idea was to implement a four-player multiplayer system similar to the one seen in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' – however, after they viewed a Dorkly video entitled ''Mario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropical Storm Mario
The name Mario has been used for one tropical cyclone in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and one in the Philippines by the PAGASA The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (, abbreviated as PAGASA , which means "hope" as in the Tagalog language, Tagalog word ''pag-asa'') is the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS ... in the Western Pacific Ocean. In the Eastern Pacific: * Tropical Storm Mario (2019), never threatened land. In the Western Pacific: * Tropical Storm Fung-wong (2014) (T1416, 16W, Mario) - brushed the Northern Philippines, where it caused over ₱1 billion in damages; later landfall on Shanghai, China. The name ''Mario'' was retired by PAGASA following the 2014 typhoon season and replaced with '' Maymay'' for the 2018 season. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mario Pacific hurricane set index articles Pacific typhoon set index articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monte Mario
Monte Mario (English: Mount Mario or Mount Marius) is the hill that rises in the north-west area of Rome (Italy), on the right bank of the Tiber, crossed by the Via Trionfale. It occupies part of Balduina, of the territory of Municipio I, Municipio Roma I (''Roma Centro''), of Municipio XIV, Municipio Roma XIV (''Roma Monte Mario'') and a small portion of Municipio XV, Municipio Roma XV of Rome, thus including part of the Quarters of Rome, Quarters Trionfale, Della Vittoria and Primavalle. The same toponym also identifies the urban area which extends over the hill, close to Via Trionfale and the first stretch of Via di Torrevecchia, with the Roma Monte Mario railway station, railway station of the same name. It is the highest (139 m) hill in the town and, together with the Janiculum and the Pincian Hill, Pincius, one of the most scenic spots in the city, especially in the place called "''Zodiac''", which offers a south and west view of the main architectural monuments of the cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
