What's What! Video Game Facts (48/365)

The mustachioed Plumber Mario has officially his game in 1985 called Super Mario Bros for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, the plot focuses on Mario who lives peacefully in the Mushroom Kingdom with mushroom anthropomorphic, this kingdom is invaded by Koopa troops a kind tribe of turtles, so quiet town is turned into stone and bricks, and the kingdom of the mushrooms goes to ruin. The only one who can undo the magical influence of them is Princess Peach, but this one is kidnapped by Bowser, so Mario proposes to rescue her and expel the Koopa invaders from the kingdom, for this he receives the help of his brother luigi and some magic mushrooms which increases his size and strength to a great extent.

The team based the level design around a small Mario, intending to later make his size bigger in the final version. Then they decided it would be fun to let Mario change his size via a power-up. The early level design was focused on teaching players that mushrooms were distinct from Goombas and would be beneficial to them, so in the first level of the game, the first mushroom is difficult to avoid if it is released.

The use of mushrooms to change size was influenced by common Japanese folktales in which people wander into forests and eat magical mushrooms; this also resulted in the game world being named the "Mushroom Kingdom". The team also deliberately chose not to have Mario begin levels as Super Mario in order to make obtaining a mushroom more gratifying for the player.

But do you knew that these mushrooms actually exist?, called Amanita muscaria, and one of the effect of consum this mushroom is a joy romp, which usually manifests itself with songs; and any physical effort you try to make is easy, because the muscle tone rises considerably, usually, and above all at the beginning of intoxication, the knowledge is kept in good condition, and the affected person coordinates well, feels happy and satisfied. Another effect to the consumer is the dilatation of the pupils, so everything that reality shows him is enlarged so prodigiously, that a small concavity can feel like a very deep chasm; a glass of water, immense lake.

So mario can really be all a hallucination of a poor man who hates his job as a plumber and tries to recover a lost love married to another man who never corresponded to him, what a sad dream mario of that reality