Mario realizes that history will change forever if he does nothing, so it is up to Mario to use Bowser's own device against him by returning the artifacts to their proper places in time.
With his collection nearly completed, Bowser gloats that not even Mario can stop him now. In the year 1993 (1994 in the Deluxe re-release), Bowser uses a time machine called a ' Timulator', traveling backwards to different points in human history and stealing significant artifacts to place in his personal museum inside his castle. 4 Historical inaccuracies and other errors.