Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: Difference between revisions

*''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'': The [[Grass Land]] theme is arranged as part of the music that plays during the opening cutscene. Whenever Jolene (while under the alias of "X") sent Mario an e-mail, the [[Ice Land]] map screen theme would play. The music that plays when Mario is riding the blimp is a cover of the athletic theme from this game. This game also included [[Boomerang Bro]]s., [[Fire Bro]]s., and [[Boo]]s, which originated from this game. Also, the "king saved" music can be heard in Luigi's story telling theme. Also like ''Super Mario Bros. 3'', the game's story is implied to be a stage play (although it is more direct than in the former game, as it was only stated by Shigeru Miyamoto in the former case). In addition, Peach after each chapter ends up sending (e-)mail to Mario with advice for the next level, with her final mail upon completing all objectives being intercepted by the main villain, similar to in ''Super Mario Bros. 3''. Bowser's theme song contains a cover of the castle theme.

*''[[Super Mario World]]'': Whenever Peach sends Mario an e-mail, the title screen theme would play. Whenever Mario gets an e-mail from other people, part of the epilogue theme (from when a [[Koopalings|Koopaling]] castle is beaten) will play. When Mario wins a battle, the "level clear" sound will play.

*''[[Super Mario 64]]'': In the first [[Princess Peach]] interlude, Peach is singing the Inside the Castle Walls theme from this game when she is in the shower.

*''[[Paper Mario]]'': [[Parakarry]] makes a brief cameo at the beginning of the game, and delivers a letter to Mario from Peach, just like the previous game. [[Lady Bow]] also makes a cameo appearance, and makes a direct reference to [[Boo's Mansion]], as well as the adventure they had. There is also a random [[Toad]] at the Excess Express (after Chapter 6 is completed) that will ask Mario a quiz question, ("What did Bowser steal in the first Paper Mario?"), and the answer is, "[[Star Rod (Paper Mario)|Star Rod]]". The video game-obsessed Toad kid from Petalburg also mentions in the Spanish version that he has been playing the game, describing Bow as the "cutest Boo of ALL TIME!!!" [[Jr. Troopa]] also appears in the background in the picture that Zip Toad attached to his e-mail. [[Gulpit]]s are also given a reference when Grubba exclaims, "GREAT-GALLOPIN' GULPITS!". A [[Lumpy (character)|Ratooey]] at Rogueport Harbor who went on a quest for oil in [[Dry Dry Desert (Paper Mario)|Dry Dry Desert]] can tell Mario about this adventures at the end of the game. Every part is a chapter of [[Paper Mario]] game. In the email he sends to Mario after finding him, [[Koopook]] says he is now hiding in [[Crystal Palace]] in the Japanese version; however, this last reference is lost in the English translation, as Crystal Palace is instead translated as "Goomstar Temple". [[Kolorado]] was a student of [[Professor Frankly]], and the former's [[Kolorado's father|deceased father]] appears as a crumpled [[Dull Bones]] in Hooktail's Castle, which [[Koops]] confuses for his own father. One of the houses in Poshley Heights has a model of the K64.