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Super Mario Sunshine may be just another great Mario game for young children, but to a physics student, it is a whole lot more.  This is because the young child plays the game without understanding the hidden physical implications beneath it.  The child watches Mario jump from wall to wall, and the manner of the jump somehow seems to make sense, but the child misses what these results really imply about the physics of Mario’s world, or in this case Delfino Plaza.  I intend to explore whether the amazing things that Mario can do are physically achievable.  Using the information presented in the “SPECS” page as a starting point, I will run multiple tests concerning important principles of physics to ultimately determine how accurate the physics are in the game.  

The factual data to which I compare physical aspects of the game can all be found online, so rather than include a standard list-style bibliography, which is somewhat vague, I have turned all of the backed up information into hyperlinks.  To find out from where I got the information for a particular fact, simply click on the blue text the fact is typed in, and you will be redirected to the source.

Feel free to watch the video below.  Then visit the SPECS.