Why do Mario and Luigi live in New York? The answer is in the hated movie from 1993!

Let’s take a small leap into the past! It’s June 1993, and Super Mario fans are discovering a live-action adaptation of the famous video game.

At the beginning of the story, Mario and Luigi, played by Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo, live in the Brooklyn area of ​​New York. They’re trying to somehow start a plumbing business that’s being mistreated by a certain scrappy firm.

Later, while trying to rescue Daisy, who has been captured by King Koopa’s henchmen, the Plumber Brothers find themselves in the sewers. They eventually step into an interdimensional portal that leads to the Mushroom Kingdom.

Why New York? If the writers included an American city in the story, it was in the 1983 arcade game Mario Bros.

Shigeru Miyamoto, father of a mustachioed plumber, sends his two mascots, Mario and Luigi, to rid the city’s sewers of strange creatures.

If the designer chose New York as his playground, it was for him “A labyrinthine underground network of sewage pipes”. Therefore, for Miyamoto, the Big Apple was the perfect environment to enter and exit these plumbing pipes.

So the team behind 1993’s Super Mario Bros came up with this idea to feature our beloved plumbers and give them an origin story. 30 years later, Matthew Fogel, the screenwriter of the animated film released on April 5, used the exact same idea as the authors of the disastrous work of 1993!

Indeed, at the beginning of the film, Mario and Luigi are also living in Brooklyn and trying to start their own small plumbing company. After several adventures, they finally make their way through the sewers of New York and sneak into a pipe that leads to the Mushroom Kingdom.

Three decades later, Nintendo avoided fate and used New York again as the city where the brothers in overalls live. A wink that fans of Nanar’s famous 1993 won’t welcome.

In some ways, even if it is reasonable that the American city of Mario and Luigi compared to the 1983 game, one might think that Nintendo refuses to start the adventures of the heroes in New York.

It would be understandable if Big N chose to avoid even the slightest reference to the 1990s live-action feature film, which was a real blow to the company. Finally, it seems the Kyoto firm has more self-deprecation than we think.