Thursday, April 10, 2008

Goomba Question of the Week

So here's my pressing question. Bowser spits fire. The Koopa wizard guy shoots shit from his wand. And the Koopa Troopers are turtle creatures so they...well if you've ever had a turtle, you know that those fuckers can bite like hell. Of course Nintendo has always been a very G rated system (remember the original SNES Mortal Kombat had no blood!?) so they can't show Koopa biting Mario, but that's probably what happens. But what does Goomba do? He appears to just kinda walk into you and that's enough. At least in later games like Galaxy he sorta charges and you can make out his teeth, so the biting method is possible for him too. But early on? He literally just walked into you. Does he have poisonous skin? This seems absurd since Mario jumps on his head to kill him, unless of course the top of the Goomba head is a safe zone. Perhaps his effect is psychological. He scares Mario so much that Mario has a seizure and either shrinks (if he's Super) or dies. Or maybe the Goomba core is like a black hole and as he hits Mario, the core gets too close and Mario combusts (of course this is also too graphic).

What do you think fellow Goomba fans?

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