Did Anyone Else Never Realize That Goombas Are Just Mushrooms With Feet?
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The whole design behind the opening screen in level 1-1 is based on getting players to know that goombas = bad mushroom shape, mushrooms = good mudhroom shape.
Iwata himself didn't know it was a mushroom... https://web.archive.org/web/20091217145506/http://us.wii.com:80/iwata_asks/nsmb/vol2_page5.jsp
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By the way, is it a coincidence that the Goomba looks like a mushroom?
Tezuka
It's a shiitake mushroom!
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It's a shiitake? (laughs) So it's not a chestnut?
Tezuka
That's right. (laughs)
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By the way, is it a coincidence that the Goomba looks like a mushroom?
Tezuka
It's a shiitake mushroom!
Iwata
It's a shiitake? (laughs) So it's not a chestnut?
Tezuka
That's right. (laughs)
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Wait until you hear about how he punches Yoshi in the back of the head in World.Jesus Fucking Christ... he's a monster.
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I was born in 1987... I never read the instruction manual. I just played the game.
I found this secret pretty recently playing the game again and it kinda makes sense since there's a star whose clue is something about there being a breakable wall in the level
LMAO! That gif is amazing, where is it from?Goddamn it! READ THE OP!
BRB, writing my Mushroom Kingdom/Warhammer 40K fanfic revealing the Toads to be the creators of the Orks
And basically all the bricks in Super Mario Bros 1 is actually people from the Mushroom Kingdom. Bowser and his crew used black magic to transform everyone.
Fun fact: the game keeps a tally of how many brick blocks you destroy. That variable is never actually used for anything, the game seemingly only keeps it so it secretly knows how much of a monster you are for committing mass-murder of innocents.
What got me mad was walking under the boomerangs at the end of the last level... I had no Idea
Did anyone else never realize that those mushrooms with feet in Mario are called Goombas?
Good god, I'm dying right now.
This is some offensive shit. Goombas are more than repurposed mushrooms. You take that back!!
Don't tell me about the clouds/bushes.
Goomba needs a higher profile. I've been campaiging to have them as playable characters is Mario Kart for ages.
Is this the thread where I start posting gifs of secrets in Mario games that I don't think are anything special yet people seem to flip their shit over them?
R.I.P green blob.
For the longest time as a child, I didn't realise Mario was punching blocks - I just assumed he was headbutting them...Jesus Fucking Christ... he's a monster.
I always thought they were angry birds staring down their beaks at you.
Don't tell me about the clouds/bushes.
One of these threads again?
I knew about the green bubbles but not grinders! Mind is blown!
I always thought they were angry birds staring down their beaks at you.
Man, even after looking at your edited version for a long time, I just can't see it in the regular design whatsoever.
What a weird interpretation lol.
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There's certain confusion regarding Goombas given their japanese name "Kuribo" means something along the lines "Chestnut Boy", in addition to Prickly Goombas introduced in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which are Goombas that hide inside spiky chesnuts.
Why "maybe"?And basically all the bricks in Super Mario Bros 1 is actually people from the Mushroom Kingdom. Bowser and his crew used black magic to transform everyone.
Wait, then why is it called Kuribo's shoe instead of goomba's shoe?
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There's certain confusion regarding Goombas given their japanese name "Kuribo" means something along the lines "Chestnut Boy", in addition to Prickly Goombas introduced in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which are Goombas that hide inside spiky chesnuts.
My previous understanding was that there were some goombas designed to look more like water chestnuts (Super Mario World style) and some more like mushrooms. I think Super Mario 3D World actually has both varieties! (I think it's that game and not Odyssey or something else)
Yes. It was basically an unlocalized line.
In later revisions of SMB3, it was translated as "Goomba's Shoe".
