My name is David Mitchell. I have been addicted to videogames for a long time, so it's no surprise that I wanted to make a website about them. The problem is, what topic should I pick? There are dozens of sites out there that deal with specific systems, specific games, and so on... I wanted to do something fun, and a bit different.

Well, around this time, I noticed that if you pull off a certain move in Super Mario RPG, you get to see a little quote from the monster you're fighting. I thought to myself, "That would be a cool thing to add to the monster compendiums for this game..." then I thought, "Hey! What about a monster compendium for the entire Super Mario Universe!?!"

So, I set forth to make one,

Fans of Role Playing Games can tell you that a monster compendium is a collection of data about the various enemies you might run across in the game.

I thought it would be neat to make a big, illustrated, groovy compendium of all of the monsters that Mario and company have fought over the years. This is a daunting task, to say the least. There are around 20 games to look at. However, I figure that if I take it nice and easy, I can add a monster every week or so, starting with the games I own, and eventually making my way to the ones I don't. Eventually, they'll all be here!

I try to use as much "official" information as possible, but for many of the less important characters, I have to make stuff up, especially when it comes to background information. How interesting would it be to read a background bio that says, "This guy is red and blue and he is hard to beat"?
My main resource is Paper Mario and the official Player's Guide for that game. My secondary resource is Super Mario RPG and the guides made about that game. These contain the basic information that every monster compendium contains. My other resources are all of the other Mario games and player's guides. Finally, a little bit of imagination! I want to make this compendium as accurate as possible, but if I can't fill in blanks with anything else, I'll make up some statistics, based on how tough the enemy is, how far into the games s/he usually appears, and so on. For more details, see the Sample Monster.

I know, I know, anyone who read that last header is thinking, "Yeah, right. Let this loser do it by himself!" Still, if anyone out there would like to help, I would love to get fan-art, and info for the enemies in these games. I can't guarantee I'll use it, but I'll try. In particular, I could use help with attack patterns and names of characters appearing in Yoshi's Story, and Wario Land 1, 2 and 4 as I don't own those games. If you want to help, e-mail me!

LM..............Luigi's Mansion
PM..............Paper Mario
SM64........Super Mario 64
SMB..........Super Mario Bros.
SMB2........Super Mario Bros. 2
SMB3........Super Mario Bros. 3
SMBLL......Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels
SML...........Super Mario Land
SML2.........Super Mario Land 2: The Six Golden Coins
SMRPG......Super Mario RPG
SMS..........Super Mario Sunshine
SMW.........Super Mario World
SMW2......Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
WL.............Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land
WL2...........Wario Land 2
WL3...........Wario Land 3
WL4...........Wario Land 4
WW............Wario World
YS...............Yoshi's Story