Just a thought that occurred to me for the first time... whoever invented Mario (the game) must have been a complete mentalist.
It's a game about an Italian plumber who jumps on enemy mushroom to defeat a big turtle-dragon type thing that stole a princess that, naturally, the plumber is friends with, and does so by eating mushrooms to grow bigger and flowers to gain the ability to spit fireballs.
All the while, he dives down green tubes for no apparent reason other than to collect floating coins. And, at the end of every level, he jumps onto a flag instead of just running past it, runs into a ****e castle and fireworks go off.
Yet we accept all of this without question!!!
It's a game about an Italian plumber who jumps on enemy mushroom to defeat a big turtle-dragon type thing that stole a princess that, naturally, the plumber is friends with, and does so by eating mushrooms to grow bigger and flowers to gain the ability to spit fireballs.
All the while, he dives down green tubes for no apparent reason other than to collect floating coins. And, at the end of every level, he jumps onto a flag instead of just running past it, runs into a ****e castle and fireworks go off.
Yet we accept all of this without question!!!
