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Everyone’s Your Friend in Mushroom City

I watched a playthrough of part of Mario Party Advance for research purposes. It sounds silly saying that, even if it’s technically true; it’s not like I’m writing a scholarly study on Mario. But I was interested in what it added … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Music, Names, Relationships, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged bob-ombs, bullet bills, dry dry desert, flutters, goombas, king bowser koopa, king shroomses, koopa kids, koopa paratroopas, leaping lizards, luigi mario, mario kart: double dash, mario mario, mario party, mario party advance, mechakoopas, mr. blizzard, mr. e, mr. i, mushbert, mushroom city, mushroom kingdom, nintendo adventure books, nintendo power, paper mario, paper mario: the origami king, paper mario: the thousand-year door, pipe down!, princess peach toadstool, scorching sandpaper desert, shroom city, shroomlock, snifits, spear guys, super mario bros. 3, super paper mario, thwomps, toad force v, toadies, toads, yoshi |

Never Poke a Podoboo

If you were the kind of person who immediately threw away your video game instruction booklets, I would say you missed out. Then again, maybe you only did if you’re someone like me who finds researching games a lot less … Continue reading →

Posted in Mario, Video Games | Tagged baburu, birdo, hot feet, lava bubbles, li'l sparkies, magma, monsters, podoboos, super mario bros., super mario world, thwomps |

Who Put the Thwomp in the Thwomp-Ba-Domp-Ba-Domp?

Moving on down the list of Mario enemies (well, figuratively speaking, anyway; I’m not actually working from a list, and I’m not sure how many more I’ll write posts about), we come to the Thwomps, giant stone blocks with faces … Continue reading →

Posted in Japanese, Mario, Mythology, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged big bob-omb, bob-ombs, boos, dr. seuss, general guy, giga lakitu, goombas, goomboss, grindels, head thwomp, lakitu, mario & luigi partners in time, monsters, nurikabe, paper mario, petey piranha, piranha plants, shyguys, sneetches, spindels, super mario 64, super mario bros. 3, super mario galaxy 2, super mario world, thwimps, thwomp volcano, thwomps, whomp king, whomps |

Things to Do in Japan When You’re Dead

For my next post on the afterlife, we turn eastward. Well, eastward from where I am, anyway; I guess I don’t know where you are when you’re reading this. The idea of ancestor worship is one that has shown up … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Dragon Quest, Japanese, Mario, Mythology, Religion, Shinto, Video Games | Tagged Abura-akago, afterlife, Akaname, ancestor worship, dragon quest iv, edo, funerary rites, ghosts, hitodama, Ittan-momen, lost souls, maruyama okyo, obake, okiku, oyuki, rogue wispers, the ghost of oyuki, thwomps, toriyama seiken, yurei |

Doom and Goombas

Picture by The Lonely Goomba After covering the Slimes from Dragon Quest last week, I thought it would be appropriate now to look at the comparable really easy and really numerous type of enemy in the Mario games, the Goomba. … Continue reading →

Posted in Mario, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged flurries, goomba village, goombario, goombas, goombella, goomboss, grand goombas, italian, king bowser koopa, koopa paratroopas, koopa troopas, koopas, link's awakening, micro-goombas, mushroom kingdom, mushrooms, nipper plants, paper mario, paragoombas, professor frankly, pumpkinhead goombas, rogueport, round goombas, shiitake, shyguys, spiky goombas, super mario bros., super mario bros. 3, super mario world, thwomps, toad town, toads, university of goom |