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Title: Mario and Luigi's father revealed...?
Post by: Weegee on June 30, 2017, 06:03:32 PM
Upper right:

(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fgonintendo.com%2Fsystem%2Ffile_uploads%2Fuploads%2F000%2F017%2F755%2Foriginal%2Foriginal.jpg&hash=e41356d3fcadceb3cf8d008a418dea58)

The lopsided eye makes me think the Mario family is predisposed to strokes.
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Post by: Lizard Dude on June 30, 2017, 07:30:42 PM
They are. That's what the timer represents in SMB1-4.
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Post by: The Chef on June 30, 2017, 07:52:03 PM
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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Post by: Lakitu on July 05, 2017, 03:03:43 AM
But why is a picture of their father in a Toad's house? Also, what are those stripes covering...?
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Post by: The Chef on July 05, 2017, 06:48:47 AM
Who said that was a Toad's house?
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Post by: Lakitu on July 11, 2017, 01:13:27 AM
The toads sitting on the couch... 
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Post by: Cheeseball701 on July 13, 2017, 06:23:10 AM
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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Post by: The Chef on July 13, 2017, 09:06:52 AM
Maybe he has it plugged into an oversized NES.
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Post by: Toad on July 17, 2017, 10:49:57 AM
Well, this was made in The Eighties. Keep in mind what a crazy awesome time period that was.
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Post by: BP on July 17, 2017, 01:31:27 PM
Oh yeah. Drugs.
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Post by: Weegee on July 17, 2017, 08:44:33 PM
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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Post by: Luigison on July 18, 2017, 04:52:58 AM
The top search for that:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay-related_immune_deficiency

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