Curator
- This article is about the characters in Mario is Missing! For the character in Princess Peach: Showtime!, see Curator (Princess Peach: Showtime!).
| Curator | |
|---|---|
| Sprite of Curators in Mario is Missing! (SNES) Curators as they appear in the SNES release Sprite of Curators in Mario is Missing! (NES) Curators as they appear in the NES release | |
| Species | Human |
| Appears in | Mario is Missing! (1993) |
Curators[1] are non-playable characters that appear at Information Booths [1] (or Info Booth in the Macintosh version) in the PC, SNES, and NES versions of Mario is Missing! They appear in every city of the game. Curators provide Luigi with information on why a landmark is closed. In the SNES release, they also give him a pamphlet with information about their landmark, while in the PC releases, Luigi has to manually pick up the pamphlet from the Information Booth. Luigi can return the stolen artifacts to Curators after answering some questions about their landmarks to prove the artifacts' authenticity. If Luigi correctly answers the questions, he is awarded a certain amount of money and, only in the SNES and DOS releases, he can enter the Information Booth to take a picture of the landmark. If he does not answer correctly or gives to the Curators the wrong artifact, they angrily tell Luigi to leave. In the PC releases, the Information Booths are fully closed and Luigi has to use his videophone instead to call the Curators' numbers indicated on the booths.
In the DOS release, the Curators' appearance on the videophone is different for every city, but the sprite depicting them in their Information Booth uses the same appearance for every booth, like in the other releases. The sprites on the videophone reuses the sprites of the mayors. If the player answers the question incorrectly, the curator will end the call. The player has to leave and return to the location of the booth to call them again.
In the CD-ROM Deluxe release, the human Curators were replaced with five characters from the Super Mario franchise: a Dino-Rhino, Toad, Donkey Kong, Princess Toadstool, and a Monty Mole. However, the human Curator still appears inside of the Information Booths when they reopen.
In the Macintosh release, unlike the DOS version, the videophone of the curators do not reuse the mayor's sprites. The curators ask all of the questions of the landmark.
In the console releases, the Curators' appearance is the same for every landmark. in the SNES release, they are female and their appearance is almost identical to Princess Toadstool's sprite in Super Mario World , the only difference being the change of hair and dress colors to brown and blue respectively. Notable is the fact the recolor mimics that of Princess Daisy's sprite from NES Open Tournament Golf . In the NES release, they instead have black bob haircuts and a white shirt.
Gallery[edit ]
A Curator in an Information Booth in the DOS release
A Curator in an Information Booth in the SNES release
A Curator in an Information Booth in the NES release
Unused sprite of a Curator in the NES release
DOS Curators[edit ]
CD-ROM Deluxe Curators[edit ]
Macintosh Curators[edit ]
Names in other languages[edit ]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Note(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| German | Wärter | Curator | [2] |
Notes[edit ]
- In the Macintosh version, the file codenames indicate that the curators' physical appearances are exclusive in their respective cities. This is evident on a curator under the filename "GK21", wearing a N.Y. hat, implying that he is supposed to be the recurring curator for New York.
References[edit ]
- ^ a b Mario is Missing! instruction booklet, pages 6 and 11 (SNES) or 13 and 18 (NES).
- ^ Mario is Missing - Spielanleitung (SNES)
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