A Mushroom as seen in Mario Kart 64

A Mushroom is a common power-up (or, in some cases, power-down) in the Mario universe. Image File history File links A Super Mushroom in artwork for Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. Copyrighted by Nintendo. ... Image File history File links A Super Mushroom in artwork for Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. Copyrighted by Nintendo. ... Mario Kart 64 ) is a racing video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 video game console. ... Mario ) is a video game character created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and the official mascot of Nintendo. ...

Super Mushroom

The Super Mushroom is a power-up from the Mario series of video games. It is, traditionally, about the size of "regular" Mario, and has a white stalk below a red and white (originally red and orange) spotted cap. Originally, it was shaped after a common mushroom, but since Super Mario Bros. 2 it gained a more cartoonish shape, with an almost-spheric cap and a stubby stalk. Mushroom(s) are the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources. ... Power Up, the Professional Organization of Women in Entertainment Reaching Up is an organization with the stated mission to promote the visibility and integration of gay women in entertainment, the arts, and all forms of media. Power Up provided funding and assistance to the 2003 short film . ... Mario ) is a video game character created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and the official mascot of Nintendo. ... “Computer and video games” redirects here. ... Super Mario Bros. ...

A stencil of a Super Mushroom

It first appeared in Super Mario Bros. for the NES/Famicom, and the powers it grants the player lent itself to the game's title. (In Super Mario Bros. only, these mushrooms were called "Magic Mushrooms".) It emerges from flashing blocks marked with a '?' when they are bumped from below (a convention carried over from Mario Bros., where bumping platforms was the main form of attack). Upon emerging, it then begins to slide to the right (this was later changed for Super Mario Bros. 3, where, depending on what side of the block was hit, the mushroom would head toward the opposite side.) If the player touches it, "regular" Mario becomes Super Mario: (which, in NSMB, has been finally proven to be his normal size) he doubles in size and is able to take an extra hit. Furthermore, Super Mario can break bricks, whereas regular Mario can't. If Super Mario comes across a Super Mushroom the game will instead give a secondary item, such as a fire flower or leaf. These allow him to gain better powers, such as the ability to shoot bouncing fireballs as Fire Mario and the ability to fly and glide as Caped Mario. In Super Mario World, Super Mushrooms would also allow Mario to break Spin Blocks with the spin jump, an important tool for certain levels. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2848 × 2136 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2848 × 2136 pixel, file size: 1. ... Visual diagram of a basic stencil. ... Super Mario Bros. ... Nes is: A municipality in the county of Akershus in Norway, see Nes, Akershus. ... The Nintendo Entertainment System (U.S., Europe, and Australia) NES redirects here. ... Super Mario Bros. ... A question mark is a punctuation mark. ... This article is about the original arcade game and its ports. ... Super Mario Bros. ... For the cartoon, see Super Mario World (cartoon). ...

In some Mario games, the Super Mushroom heals Mario and friends, such as in Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, and Mario & Luigi. It gives the player a short boost of speed in the Mario Kart series of racing games. In Super Smash Bros. Melee, the Super Mushroom causes the player's character to grow to an immense size. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (スーパーマリオRPG) was the last Mario game made and released for the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and was the last Square-produced game for a Nintendo video game console until 2003, with the debut of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles for the... Paper Mario, called during production Super Mario RPG 2, known in Japan as Mario Story ), is a role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. ... Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, known in Japan as Mario & Luigi RPG (マリオ＆ルイージRPG), is a video game developed by AlphaDream and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. ... A screenshot from Mario Kart Wii. ... A racing game is any game that involves competing in races through a surrogate playing piece or vehicle, either getting it from one point to another or completing a number of circuits in the shortest time. ... Super Smash Bros. ...

Shigeru Miyamoto stated in an interview that the Super Mushroom was created by chance. The first sketches of Mario turned out to be too big, for which they were forced to shrink them. Then the development team thought it would be interesting to have Mario grow and shrink by eating a magic mushroom, just like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.^[1] In the novel, Alice eats pieces of mushroom to change her size. This concept is explored further in New Super Mario Bros., with Mini Mushrooms that shrink Mario into an even smaller size than he usually starts out in, and Mega Mushrooms that turn Mario into a colossal giant. Shigeru Miyamoto , born November 16, 1952) is a Japanese video game designer. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... New Super Mario Bros. ...

The Super Mushroom slides toward Mario. When it touches him, it disappears, causing him to earn 1,000 points and double in size getting extra abilities.

Because the Mushroom is the most basic power-up, without which other powers can't be granted, it is occasionally used in the Mario series to denote basic rewards or easier skill levels. Winning three consecutive Mushroom cards from the slot-machine goal boxes at the end of each level in Super Mario Bros. 3 will earn the player two extra lives, whereas winning three consecutive Fire Flower cards earns three extra lives, and winning three consecutive Starman cards will earn them five. In Mario Kart games, the first (and easiest) tracks belong to the Mushroom Cup. Image File history File links Short version of Super_mushroomized. ... Image File history File links Short version of Super_mushroomized. ... Super Mario Bros. ... Like the Starman, Fire Flowers flashing colors were achieved by quickly rotating through several palettes. ... The starman from the original Super Mario Brothers. ... A screenshot from Mario Kart Wii. ...

The Super Mushroom makes a cameo appearance in the Nintendo game Metroid Prime Hunters for the Nintendo DS, on the top of a mushroom-like creature. It also appears in Nintendogs as an item in the category sports named a rubber mushroom in the Super Mario Bros. style (yellow cap with red spots and white stalk). It even appears in Animal Crossing Wild World, as a gift from Nintendo on WiFi day. It also makes a cameo in World of Warcraft as a picture of a mushroom with a red and white cap and eye-like slits that represents some items. Metroid Prime Hunters is a first-person shooter and adventure game for the Nintendo DS developed by NST, a Redmond-based first-party developer for Nintendo, and released on March 20, 2006. ... “NDS” redirects here. ... Nintendogs is a pet simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. ... Super Mario Bros. ... Animal Crossing: Wild World is a life-simulation game developed by Nintendo for its own portable system, the Nintendo DS. It is the follow-up to the 2002 Nintendo GameCube title Animal Crossing. ... World of Warcraft (commonly abbreviated as WoW) is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is the fourth game in the Warcraft series, excluding expansion packs and the cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. ...

The Super Mushroom is set to reappear in Super Mario Galaxy, along with other classic power-ups such as the Fire Flower and the Starman. This will be the item's first 3-D Mario platform game appearance. However the effect will not be the same, much like its RPG roles, the Super Mushroom will restore Mario's health as opposed to increasing his size. Super Mario Galaxy ) is a forthcoming platform game for the developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development and published by Nintendo for the Wii. ... Like the Starman, Fire Flowers flashing colors were achieved by quickly rotating through several palettes. ... Starman can refer to a number of things: Starman is the name of a number of comic book superheroes in the DC Comics universe. ...

1-up Mushroom

A 1-up mushroom from Super Mario World.

1-up Mushrooms are common items that appear in the Super Mario Bros. games. These mushrooms have green caps with white spots (originally orange caps with green spots). When Mario picks up one of these mushrooms, he will be given an extra try to beat the level (also known in video game terms as an extra man, an extra life, or a 1-up). Image File history File links 1upmushroom. ... Image File history File links 1upmushroom. ... For the cartoon, see Super Mario World (cartoon). ... Super Mario Bros. ... Mario ) is a video game character created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and the official mascot of Nintendo. ... 1-up (or 1UP, 1-UP, etc. ...

These mushrooms appear in frequent Mario games, and are used for the same purpose in each game. They have also become used to represent advancement or gain in computer pop culture. The sound the game makes when Mario grabs the 1-up Mushroom has also become entrenched in pop culture, referenced by video-game players, alongside the sound made when Link picks up an item in a Zelda game. The official sword and shield logo of The Legend of Zelda introduced during the release of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. ...

The 1-up Mushroom has also accumulated another connotation since the dominance of next-gen consoles like the PlayStation and the Xbox. It has come to represent identification with old school video gamers, a category of gamers who disavow the mainstreaming characteristics of next-generation game designers, licensors, and distributors, who have been accused of ignoring the fan base for the masses. Thus, the 1-up Mushroom is now part of an 8/16-bit lexicon that illustrates disapproval and resistance towards a perceived betrayal by the gaming industry and the standards by which 8 and 16-bit games should be judged. Shigeru Miyamoto wore a shirt at E3 2005 featuring the 1-up mushroom and text below it reading "1-up". These mushrooms are also known to appear in a wide variety of clothing and items. Some of these items include: shirts (and other forms of clothing), video-game console skins, and lanyards. The Sony PlayStation ) is a video game console of the 32/64-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the mid-1990s. ... The Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. ... Old school, variously spelled old skool, oldschool or oldskool, is a slang term referring to an older school of thinking or acting and to old objects in general, within the context of newer, more modern times. ... Shigeru Miyamoto , born November 16, 1952) is a Japanese video game designer. ... E³ logo The Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly known as E³, was an annual trade show for the computer and video games industry presented by the Entertainment Software Association. ... A shirt is a sort of top, i. ... A lanyard (sword knot) fixed to an infantry sword handle A lanyard, also spelled laniard, is a rope or cord often worn around the neck or wrist to carry something. ...

Poison Mushrooms

The Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 (also known as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels) features Poison Mushrooms, which have the same effect as being touched by an enemy. It was originally a brown palette swap of the typically red Super Mushroom, but in enhanced remakes of the game, it was given a different sprite, with the spotted cap being replaced by one with a skull pattern. The only games since The Lost Levels to have Poison Mushrooms as items are Super Mario Kart, Luigi's Mansion, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Super Paper Mario, Mario Hoops 3 on 3, and some Mario Party games. In Super Smash Bros. Melee, Poison Mushrooms bear a very close resemblance to Super Mushrooms, but are darker and have "angry" eyes, causing the player to shrink in size. In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Poison Mushrooms are known simply as "Poison Shrooms" and are small, green mushrooms (they have no eyes) with purple spots. They are made by having Zess T. mix you up a Slow Shroom and Inky sauce, or a Slow Shroom and a Point Swap; a similar method is used in Super Paper Mario. In the Mario Party series, they are called Cursed Mushrooms, are purple, and limit the maximum roll on the dice block to 3 or 5, depending on the game and situation. In the original Mario Party, finding a Poison Mushroom caused a player to miss a turn. Super Mario Bros. ... SMB 2 title screen (Japanese version) Super Mario Bros. ... A red Koopa Troopa from Super Mario Bros. ... In the video game subculture, an enhanced remake (also called updated classics) is an updated version of a video or computer game that was originally developed for a less advanced system. ... In computer graphics, a sprite (also known by other names; see Synonyms below) is a two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene. ... It has been suggested that temporal fenestra be merged into this article or section. ... Super Mario Kart is the first video game in the Mario Kart series, released in 1992 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... Super Smash Bros. ... Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is the sequel to the Nintendo 64 video game Paper Mario, and is the fourth in the series of Mario role-playing game titles that includes Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. ... Super Paper Mario is a platform/role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems, a division of Nintendo. ... Mario Hoops 3-on-3 (also known as Mario Basket 3-on-3 in Japan and as Mario Slam Basketball in Europe) is a basketball video game developed by Square Enix for the Nintendo DS. In the beginning, it was meant to be an original intellectual property, but Square Enix... This article is about the first game in the series. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Other Mushrooms

Sluggish 'Shrooms

In Mario Party 6 and Mario Party 7, you also have Slow Shrooms. These blue mushrooms will make your dice block roll slower than usual, making it easier for the player to get a number that they want. Mario Party 6 is the sixth game in the Mario Party series of board game style video games for Nintendo platforms. ... Mario Party 7 ) is the ninth in a series of board game style video games for Nintendo platforms, featuring popular Nintendo characters. ...

Golden Mushrooms

Golden Mushrooms in the Mario Party series let players hit 3 dice blocks in one turn. In the Mario Kart series, the Golden Mushroom gives the player an unlimited amount of boosts for a short time. It is usually only available to racers in low positions, or in the case of Mario Kart: Double Dash!! only to gamers playing as Toad and Toadette as it was their special item. Or Petey Piranha and King Boo, as they could use all special items. In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the Golden Mushroom is an object which completely restores health points and Bros. points, which can only be acquired by defeating Fawful in the penultimate battle, and some side-quests and secret places. In Mario vs. Donkey Kong, they give the player five lives. A screenshot from Mario Kart Wii. ... Mario Kart: Double Dash!! is a video game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube video game console. ... Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga is a video game made for Game Boy Advance. ... Mario vs. ...

Ultra Mushrooms

The Ultra Mushroom is worth even more points than the Mushroom and Super Mushroom (and is therefore even rarer and more expensive than they are). In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Ultra Mushrooms were items that restored 50 HP, and cost 200 coins at the store in the Rogueport Sewers. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is the sequel to the Nintendo 64 video game Paper Mario, and is the fourth in the series of Mario role-playing game titles that includes Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. ...

Max Mushrooms

The Max Mushroom, found in Super Mario RPG ,Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, and Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, offers the HP of a character to be raised up to the maximum amount possible. It is very rare and very expensive, but it is useful for some of the battles, particularly the final battle.

Reverse Mushrooms

Reverse Mushrooms appear in Mario Party 3, and make players move backwards instead of forwards. Mushrooms with question marks on them appeared in the Battle Game in the Super Mario All Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 3, and would make the two players either switch positions, and, if one player was "super" and the other player was "regular", it would make them switch sizes. Mario Party 3 ) is the third in a series of board game style video games for Nintendo platforms, featuring popular Nintendo characters. ... This article or section should include material fromSuper Mario All-Stars/Super Mario World Super Mario All-Stars (North American and European title) or Super Mario Collection (Japanese title), is a video game with enhanced remakes of Super Mario Bros. ... Super Mario Bros. ...

Mini Mushrooms

In Mario Party 4 there are Mini Mushrooms that make characters smaller. With this they can fit through special pipes, although the player's dice block is limited to rolls between 1 and 5. In New Super Mario Bros., they make Mario or Luigi very small, thus weakening their gravitational pull and allowing them to jump even higher. The Mini Mushroom also allows Mario or Luigi to run across water without sinking, enter special Mini Warp Pipes, and, at the end of some castles, take shortcuts to different worlds than the one they would normally go to. Note that the Mini Mushroom looks like the Slow Shroom in Mario Party 7. In the 1994 Game Boy version of Donkey Kong Mini Mushrooms appear in several levels as well, usually thrown by Donkey Kong Jr. Mario Party 4 ) is the fourth in a series of board game style video games for Nintendo platforms, featuring popular Nintendo characters. ... New Super Mario Bros. ... Mario Party 7 ) is the ninth in a series of board game style video games for Nintendo platforms, featuring popular Nintendo characters. ... For the entire Game Boy series of handheld consoles, see Game Boy line. ... Donkey Kong (Also known as Donkey Kong 94) is a platform game developed by Nintendo for the Game Boy handheld video game system, which also contains puzzle elements. ... Donkey Kong, Jr. ...

Mega Mushrooms

Mega Mushrooms in Mario Party 4 made characters bigger and allowed the player to roll two dice blocks from 1-10 and steal 10 coins from other characters that are passed in the duration of the turn. However, the user is also forced to skip board events, like buying items or stars. In New Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo DS, Mega Mushrooms cause Mario or Luigi to grow to the size of the entire screen for a limited amount of time, destroying anything in their path including warp pipes, enemies, blocks, and even the end-level flagpoles. It also allows the player to kill a boss by walking into him. The megameter is featured at the top of the screen and is filled up by destroying the various objects. When the effect ends, 1-Up Mushrooms are awarded based on the portion of the meter that has been filled. If the meter is completely full, the player is awarded five 1-Up Mushrooms. The Mega Mushroom has the same color scheme of the original Super Mushroom from Super Mario Bros. Mario Party 4 ) is the fourth in a series of board game style video games for Nintendo platforms, featuring popular Nintendo characters. ... New Super Mario Bros. ... “NDS” redirects here. ... Super Mario Bros. ...

Mega Mushrooms are also present in Super Mario 64 DS, where they look more like traditional Super Mushrooms, but make the player much larger and able to destroy some otherwise indestructable obstacles and enemies, such as Thwomps. Super Mario 64 DS is an enhanced remake of the 1996 video game Super Mario 64, produced by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. It was released in the United States on November 21, 2004, in Japan on December 2, 2004, and in Europe on March 11, 2005 as one of...

Super Mega Mushrooms

Super Mega Mushrooms are also used the Nintendo GameCube game Mario Party 4. The character grows bigger, and they allow a character to roll three dice. With each dice, there is a chance to make 1-10 moves on the board (Which can total up to 30 moves on the board). When using the Super Mega Mushroom, other players can be walked over, and the user takes ten coins from them. However, like Mega Mushrooms,the user is also forced to skip board events. Mario Party 4 ) is the fourth in a series of board game style video games for Nintendo platforms, featuring popular Nintendo characters. ...

Life Shrooms

Life Shrooms first appeared in the Nintendo 64 game Paper Mario, as an item that restored 10 HP when Mario reached 0 HP. Life Shrooms appeared again in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Super Paper Mario. They served the same purpose in these games, except that they could be used on Mario's partners as well. The Nintendo 64 ), often abbreviated as N64, was Nintendos third home video game console for the international market. ... Paper Mario, called during production Super Mario RPG 2, known in Japan as Mario Story ), is a role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. ... Mario ) is a video game character created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and the official mascot of Nintendo. ... Super Paper Mario is a platform/role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems, a division of Nintendo. ...

Triple Mushrooms

Triple Mushrooms are just three Mushrooms. By using them in the Mario Kart series, you can get a boost three times. Also in Mario Party 7, Toad and Toadette can both get Triple Mushrooms. They get to use two dice blocks for three turns, instead of the usual one dice block. A screenshot from Mario Kart Wii. ... Mario Party 7 ) is the ninth in a series of board game style video games for Nintendo platforms, featuring popular Nintendo characters. ... Toad ) is a humanoid mushroom in games of Nintendos Mario series. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Bee Mushrooms

Bee Mushrooms appeared in the demo of the Wii platform game Super Mario Galaxy. Touching it turns Mario into a bee and allows him hover in the air for a short time. However, if Mario comes into contact with water while in bee form, he will turn back into normal Mario. The Wii (pronounced as the pronoun we, IPA: ) is the fifth home video game console released by Nintendo. ... Super Mario Galaxy ) is a forthcoming platform game for the developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development and published by Nintendo for the Wii. ...

Notes and references

1. ^ O'Connell, Patricia (November 7, 2005). Meet Mario's Papa. BusinessWeek online. Retrieved on 2005-11-26.