Retrotopia Talks Mario Is Missing

Welcome to another episode of Retrotopia: Another Video Game Podcast. This is a show where we, Alan, Brian, and Sam, get together to discuss video games from years gone by. We like to look at video games from the perspective of lifelong gamers and how they hold up in the retro sphere.

This week, we are discussing Mario is Missing!, a Super Nintendo and NES game released in 1993 that flips the classic formula on its head by making Luigi the star of the show. Instead of jumping through Goomba-stomped levels, players travel the globe in an educational adventure where Luigi must recover stolen artifacts and rescue his brother from Bowser. It’s part platformer, part geography lesson, and entirely different from what fans expected at the time—making it one of the most infamous oddities in Mario’s long history.

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