SUPER MARIO
Added on: 15th Mar 2016
MARIO WAS ORIGINALLY A CARPENTER,
NOT A PLUMBER. HE'S ALSO APPEARED AS A
DOCTOR IN THE 1990 PUZZLE TITLE
DR MARIO AND ITS SEQUELS.
THE CHAIN CHOMP IS SAID TO BE BASED ON A
NEIGHBOURHOOD DOG CHAINED TO A POST
THAT TERRORIZED SHIGERU MIYAMOTO,
MARIO´S CREATOR, AS A CHILD.
TALKING ABOUT THE CHAIN CHOMP, IF YOU LET HIM TUG
ON ITS CHAIN 49 TIMES IN SUPER MARIO BROS. 3,
IT WILL BREAK FREE AND ATTACK MARIO.
COMPOSED BY KOJI KONDO, THE ICONIC SUPER MARIO
BROS SOUNDTRACK THEME KNOWN AS 'GROUND THEME',
IS ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE PIECES OF GAME
MUSIC EVER RECORDED. THE TUNE REMAINED IN THE
BILLBOARD RINGTONE CHARTS FOR 125 WEEKS.
A Q SCORE SURVEY IN THE EARLY NINETIES REVEALED
THAT MARIO WAS MORE RECOGNIZABLE TO AMERICAN
CHILDREN THAN MICKEY MOUSE, THE DISNEY´S
ICONIC CHARACTER.
BOWSER, THE MAIN ANTAGONIST OF THE SUPER MARIO
BROS SERIES, HAS ALSO APPEARED AS A GOOD GUY.
HE HELPS MARIO IN THE 1996 TITLE SUPER MARIO RPG:
LEGEND OF THE SEVEN STARS.
THE GAME´S BACK STORY IS DARKER THAN YOU
MIGHT THINK. BOWSER AND THE KOOPAS ARE
ACTUALLY BLACK MAGIC WIELDING WIZARDS WHO
TURN EVERYONE IN THE KINGDOM INTO BUSHES,
BLOCKS AND MUSHROOMS. THE GOOMBAS ARE
CORRUPTED DENIZENS OF THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM
TURNED INTO TWISTED LITTLE CHESTNUT MEN.
BULLET BILL AND TORPEDO TED ARE THOUGHT TO BE
A REFERENCE TO BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE,
A 1989 AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION COMEDY.
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