Who remembers their favourite childhood activity? For many people of 1990s generation, and for myself, it was the great video games published on Nintendo systems.

The Mario series is one of, if not the most, iconic franchises of video game history. In Spring of 2010, when I was in Grade 8, my class was given a peculiar group assignment: write a short novel. I have no recollection of the exact requirements (such as word count, content), and nor do I remember the mark we got. But I do remember how much fun it was to create this reimagining of a classic Mario game.

We took quite a few liberties with the setting, mainly the World numbering and themes, but it looks to be based a bit off of Super Mario World, with the Koopalings being the World bosses. Please note that this was before the Koopalings were officially disowned by Bowser.

My co-author, Jimmy Zhao, is a pretty cool guy. Through all of his strange quirks, his imagination and sense of humour are the real source of this weird story. Recently, I was going through my documents and I found the finished story. I cleaned up the formatting and text, and sent it over to him for reevaluation. With the approval of the both of us, I will be posting the entirety of the silly fantasy that is our novel project in its full glory.

We sincerely hope you enjoy the writing of two video game enthusiasts and teenagers.

- Sherman Ying

Posting Schedule:

April 22: Prologue, Chapter 1 - 5

April 29: Chapter 6 - 10

May 6: Chapter 11 - 15

May 13: Chapter 16 - 20, Epilogue