Interesting computer game facts
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Is that true
Couldn't imagine a clean shaven mario.
There's loads of space saving stuff in the original mario - he goombas weren't supposed to be in the game, but the developers thought that the first levels were too hard when full of koopa troopers. They needed to save as much space as they could when adding the goombas so they only have one sprite in the game which flips left and right to make it look like he's walking.
Also according to the manual for the game; the back story is that the koopas have turned all of the toads in the mushroom kingdom into blocks using magic & only peach has the power to turn them back. That's fair enough until you consider that you spend the whole game smashing open those blocks looking for coins & power-ups
IIRC the sound when you collect a mushroom and hit the flagpole are the same, just that the mushroom music is a shorter part of the larger flagpole sound.
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