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Title: Mysterious Eggs (?)
Post by: Hope(N Forever) on January 12, 2004, 11:17:24 AM

I've always wondered, but never asked...



What are those bizzare egg-shaped jewels (in which each one had a question mark on them like the Item Blocks) which appear for the taking after you defeat each fortress in Super Mario Bro.s 3!?

There was also at least one in the sunken Koopa Airship in Super Mario World.

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...and in no point in the future will he ever be abandonded by me!

I will even drawn the best Super Mario comics ever to exist!!

Title: Re: Mysterious Eggs (?)
Post by: Fifth on January 12, 2004, 11:42:28 AM

I don't really know what they are, but they simply serve to make something happen on the map (a door opening or the entrance to Dark Land rising out of Soda Lake) and exit you from the level.  I wouldn't think them any more significant than a P-switch, in terms of existence.

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Title: Re: Mysterious Eggs (?)
Post by: Roy Koopa on January 12, 2004, 03:14:22 PM

I'd agree with that.  Basically "event" markers.  The event was a mystery, hence the question mark. Usually it'd unlock doors or create bridges, and then in SMW's case, show the entrance to the Valley of Bowser.

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Title: Re: Mysterious Eggs (?)
Post by: Hope(N Forever) on January 13, 2004, 07:55:51 AM

Okay...
But doesn't anyone know what they're, at least, called?

I am a pure Super Mario lover!!
...and in no point in the future will he ever be abandonded by me!
I will even drawn the best Super Mario comics ever to exist!!

Title: Re: Mysterious Eggs (?)
Post by: Roy Koopa on January 13, 2004, 04:51:29 PM

Would it be in the original SMB3 manual?  I don't think it was, but I can't imagine where else it would be.

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Title: Re: Mysterious Eggs (?)
Post by: Screech on January 13, 2004, 05:25:31 PM

Perhaps related to the clear orbs in smb2 that make Hawkmouth open up.
nah.

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Title: Re: Mysterious Eggs (?)
Post by: Lizard Dude on January 14, 2004, 01:28:12 AM

<Lizard_Dude> Deezer, do you know what those ? Balls that come out of Boom Boom are called?
<Deezer> Try it now
<Chupperson> Surprise balls?
<Deezer> "? Balls"
<Chupperson> Question balls?
<Chupperson> OOH HEH
<Chupperson> Oh yeah

my pathetic attempts at humor are fleeting

Title: Re: Mysterious Eggs (?)
Post by: Hope(N Forever) on January 14, 2004, 11:40:13 AM

You may have something there, Screech...

Although, it does not really answer anything about those egg-shaped jewels or orbs...

I am a pure Super Mario lover!!
...and in no point in the future will he ever be abandonded by me!
I will even drawn the best Super Mario comics ever to exist!!