Magical dropping

I feel like I’ve posted about this before, but my research suggests that it would have been long before I switched over to this blog backend, which means any mention of these “mushrooms” would be lost to the aether. But yeah, scattered about San Francisco’s downtown are these little water valves which someone has cunningly painted to resemble Mario’s red-cap mushrooms. Charming! Nerdy! What a heckuva town, etc.

Or so I thought! Upon close examination this afternoon I realized that those white spots look much less like paint than they do bird droppings.

I assume this was the inspiration for the poison mushrooms in The Lost Levels.

Bonus joke: It was probably also the inspiration for the rest of Lost Levels’ crappy gameplay, too.

15 thoughts on “Magical dropping”

  2. Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
    Pinky: I think so, Brain, but me and Pippi Longstocking, I mean, what would the children look like?

  3. They look too evenly-spaced for bird droppings to me. Unless the birds were Mario fans, my bet is with the geeks.

  5. Didn’t Nintendo promote Mario Sunshine in San Francisco in 2002 with a swimming pool full of spaghetti, something like that? So maybe they’ve come back and are doing this to promote Galaxy.

  7. Bonus joke: It was probably also the inspiration for the rest of Lost Levels’ crappy gameplay, too.

    But… you gave SMB2j a thumbs up? (I assume this is what you meant by Lost Levels)

  9. Bonus joke: It was probably also the inspiration for the rest of Lost Levels’ crappy gameplay, too.

    …except it was identical to Mario 1 gameplay-wise; level designs just kinda sucked. :(

  12. I could live with it being Magical Pop’n, but my heart does belong to the Neo Geo. Pop’n was an okay game but certainly lacked the insanity of Magical Drop II/III

  13. Sorry, I’m mundane and was referencing the more prosaic Magical Drop. I almost called it “Chik’n Poop” to reference Chak ‘N Pop, though.

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