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Video Games => Mario Chat => Topic started by: Weegee on June 30, 2017, 06:03:32 PM
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Upper right:
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The lopsided eye makes me think the Mario family is predisposed to strokes.
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They are. That's what the timer represents in SMB1-4.
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That same piece of art popped up in an early issue of Nintendo Power, in an article promoting the then-upcoming Super Show.
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But why is a picture of their father in a Toad's house? Also, what are those stripes covering...?
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Who said that was a Toad's house?
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The toads sitting on the couch...
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The perspective is such that the phone booth hangs on the side of the wall.
Furnishing a house with a phone booth is a classy touch; using an NES advantage as a rug, not so much.
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Maybe he has it plugged into an oversized NES.
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Well, this was made in The Eighties. Keep in mind what a crazy awesome time period that was.
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Oh yeah. Drugs.
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Bowser was meant as an allegory for G.R.I.D.S. as it was known at the time.
Also the Goomba peering over the window sill has hands.
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The top search for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay-related_immune_deficiency
*The More You Know!*