There’s also a Castle Burger joint shaped like the castles of 1985’s Super Mario Bros. Leaving Punch-Out Pizzeria and walking around Brooklyn, fans can also spot the Game & Watch guy on a truck. That’s not all, as when Luigi’s phone rings, the ringtone is the GameCube theme. The scene also shows Mario and Luigi’s commercial on a TV, in which they are seen flying with capes just like in 1990’s Super Mario World, where grabbing a Feather power-up grants the player limited gliding abilities. This character is no one other than Foreman Spike, a villain in the Wrecking Crew game franchise, in which Mario is the hero. Still inside Punch-Out Pizzeria, we find out that Mario and Luigi have quit working at a construction company led by Spike ( Sebastian Maniscalco). Playing in the arcade machine is Giuseppe, an energetic character dubbed by Charles Martinet, who’s the voice of Mario and Luigi in the video games. The pizzeria also has a “Jump Man” arcade machine which spoofs 1981’s Donkey Kong, the first game ever to feature Mario, who still didn’t have a name and was called Jump Man. Inside the pizzeria, we can see framed photos of several fighters from multiple Punch-Out games, but there’s also a picture of a duck flying from the grass that references Duck Hunt, the classic NES game in which we used a laser gun to shoot at our TV screen. The movie begins at the Punch-Out Pizzeria, a fictional place that nods at the Punch-Out!! gaming franchise. That doesn’t mean this section of the movie isn’t filled with Easter eggs, since we can see Nintendo’s influence everywhere we look. Movie begins, Mario ( Chris Pratt) and Luigi ( underrated voice actor Charlie Day) are still living in Brooklyn, unaware there’s a magic kingdom populated by living mushrooms and terrifying turtles.

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