No idea why I'm chasing this down now, but I am certain this game was not created as a Mario game. I think they were developing an un-mario-related platformer and then added the Mario sprite at the last minute. But nobody has ever admitted to it publicly.
Just think about it. Nothing else makes any sense in the Mario universe. And the only other time a Mario game was so non-Mario was Mario 2, which was in fact a reskinned version of an unrelated japanese game.
The vehicles, the super ball, the bosses, it's not even the same princess. It doesn't bother anyone else that Mario is suddenly freeing an unrelated princess? Are we just supposed to believe that Mario is some swarthy mustachioed princess playa??
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