Has anyone else ever noticed that while the pluckable vegetables in Super Mario Bros. 2 vary from level to level, tomatoes only appear in the game’s final level? In the big bad’s room? With Wart and the so-called Bad Dream Machine?
Am I the only one who’s ever noticed this?
Why would Nintendo bother to design a tomato and use it only in one room in the entire game?
And better yet: Why would Wart leave a machine in his hideout that produces the one thing that kills him?
And why is the one thing that kills him fresh produce?
After many, many years, I have an answer for you.
ReplyDeleteThe original game, Doki Doki Panic, had this item as a gollywog-like mask. It was replaced by turtle shells everywhere in the game except the end battle, where it was reskinned as a tomato.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-duzFXkbfS7c/UDMKYZKItwI/AAAAAAAAKvo/aUdkTLo8unI/s1600/smb2_shell_blackface.png
Damn! And I knew about that blackface head, too. But I didn't put two and two together. I'd even blogged about it Ha. How about that.
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