It's-a Mario World: Mushroom Feast
Commence with the spending frenzy! Black Friday's door-busting sales and no-holds-barred consumer fistfights initiate holiday shopping today, and that means the annual limited-edition Nintendo swag is now being clawed from store shelves. As many of you know, this year is no slouch with two new DS Lite colors, one of which is a phenomenal Mario-red. No cause for alarm; some foaming at the mouth is to be expected. Almost harder to believe is DS Fanboy's current giveaway where one lucky reader will take it home free. The rest of us can bag it at Amazon.com while supplies last.
ANYWAYS. We still have a gallery this week amidst all of the excitement. It started out as a series of photographs capturing every possible angle of the aforementioned DS Lite, but that didn't quite work. Instead, being so stuffed with Thanksgiving turkey and delicious pumpkin pie, we couldn't help thinking about what comprises Mario's diet. The short answer? Mushrooms. Lots of them. Seriously, what is it about fungus? Chomp down on our new gallery in which you'll taste a smorgasbord of 'shroom varieties Mario has consumed throughout his career. Yum.
ANYWAYS. We still have a gallery this week amidst all of the excitement. It started out as a series of photographs capturing every possible angle of the aforementioned DS Lite, but that didn't quite work. Instead, being so stuffed with Thanksgiving turkey and delicious pumpkin pie, we couldn't help thinking about what comprises Mario's diet. The short answer? Mushrooms. Lots of them. Seriously, what is it about fungus? Chomp down on our new gallery in which you'll taste a smorgasbord of 'shroom varieties Mario has consumed throughout his career. Yum.
It's-a Mario World is a weekly feature in which the ubiquity of Nintendo's flagship character is celebrated: We'll incessantly ruminate about mustache wax, debate the curious whereabouts of the princess and covet the luminous power stars strewn about the galaxy. Check back here every Friday to find out what strange and wonderful thing has got us tipping our caps.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mr Khan @ Nov 28th 2008 10:34PM
Do the mushrooms of Super Mario Bros 2 count as a different variety? Same as those of the original, but without the eyes. Arguably for a different purpose, too, since they didn't grow him
Kenneth Caldwell @ Nov 28th 2008 10:45PM
Yeah, and for whatever reason they only appeared in the dark world of Subcon. Weirdddd.
RockMan_Forte @ Nov 29th 2008 2:07AM
@ #2
But mushrooms are SUPPOSED to grow better in the dark. At least that part makes sense.
I guess the effects of the other varieties of mushrooms makes sense if we assume that Mario is trippin' balls and we can see everything that he perceives in his euphoric state.
All of this means that Mario is the world's most famous drug addict who has never been shipped off to rehab.
Shadow31 @ Nov 29th 2008 10:29AM
That could make for an interesting game... Mario is shipped to rehab... stick him in a straight jacket and then the goal is to break out, eating as many mushrooms he can find. The more mushrooms he eats, the weirder everything seems to get...
FlipSwitch @ Nov 29th 2008 4:53AM
genious
hellhammer @ Nov 29th 2008 1:44PM
"makes sense if we assume that Mario is trippin' balls"
Haha, awesome.