Raccoon Mario | TheaterFire

My favorite thing that most people forget is that SMB3 is framed as a stage play, and you can drop behind the scenery by crouching on some white blocks.

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srdev_ct@reddit

Yeah that’s how you get the warp whistle.

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mrjackspade@reddit

The first one, anyways. The second one involves flying off the screen and walking on top of what looks like an impassable wall.

Both great little tricks.

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modulus801@reddit

3rd one requires hammer brother suit on the map in world 2.

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mrjackspade@reddit

Holy fuck I never knew there was a third one. I used to just beat world 1 and then use both whistles to get to 8!

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Yutolia@reddit

When you get the third whistle you can also get a frog suit.

The hammer brothers suit was my favorite. And it was so hard to keep it!! 😱

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Classic_Engine7285@reddit

If you finish the first level in Worlds 1, 3, 5, or 6 with a score that ends in 50, 55 coins, and an even number on the clock, the Hammer Bro turns into the Coin ship.

It also works with score 10 and 11 coins, score 20 and 22 coins, score 30 and 33 coins, and so one, but you have to finish with an even number on the clock.

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modulus801@reddit

I'd say it's time for a replay, but it sounds like you may not have played worlds 2-7.

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Important_Tennis936@reddit

There's a white brick in 1-1 that sadly does not take you to a warp whistle

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E-2theRescue@reddit

That very white block on the right, to be specific.

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The National Video Game Museum (fairly small) is local to me. I went for the first time with a couple of friends on my birthday and they had a ton of cool stuff mostly interactive. Tons of retro games and all fully playable. One of the guys that was there with me I’ve known for 20+ years and when I showed him that trick by crouching on the top right screw and dropping behind the scenery his jaw dropped. It brought back that nostalgic feeling we’re all missing from these games. I can’t explain it but it felt so amazing

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

Show a kid that trick and the shocked look on their face is priceless

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Important_Tennis936@reddit

Not to brag or anything, but my children were raised their entire lives watching this trick

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

Same here, I am bragging

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

Show a kid that trick and the shocked look on their face is priceless

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limelight022@reddit

Yeah that's the one.

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RadiantRainfall@reddit

that raccoon suit was the original drip

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johnvalley86@reddit

I was just going to say something about the white block in that picture

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StealYourSquatch@reddit

Or a tanuki 🙀

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Tristate82@reddit

Or what that white block means

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ChroniclesOfSarnia@reddit

He's a TANUKI!!!😁

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Totally_Botanical@reddit

Back whent he first came out as a furry

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shadowlarx@reddit

Kids these days will never understand the power we felt when we mastered the Infinite Lives Shell Trick in the original SMB.

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Fair_Blood3176@reddit

Everything Mario Bros is inexplicable from the start. Who is Mario Bros? What the heck are the little walking pieces of poop and why does Mario stomp on them? Ok now wtf are these floating boxes with pulsing marks?? What is the purpose of all this?

To rescue the princess! But of course.

"I'm sorry but the princess is in another castle"

Holy crap what the hell is this little talking mushroom tiny person?! Why is he at the end of all of these dark fiery castles? I'm looking for the princess, how does this thing know what I'm looking for and yet implies it knows the precise location of the princess. Why withhold this information from Mr Mario Bros? In the end, one can only assume toadstool, the princess and Bowser have been manipulating the unsuspecting mustached little man in a red suit and cap, seemingly trapped in a prison on repeat.

IMO Mario 3 is when Mario begins the ascension out of the brick prison of poop pipes and killer plants of the Great and Terrible Lizard and Associates.

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MoreLittleMoreLate@reddit

I can hear this.

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murph0969@reddit

I saw The Wizard in theaters. Unreal when that game was unveiled on the big screen.

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Yutolia@reddit

Me too!! It looked so cool and scary and complicated!!

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Librarian-Voter@reddit

It really was, and that's so funny to think about now.

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disinaccurate@reddit

Jenny Lewis in The Wizard was an awakening for this 12-year-old boy. I did not understand at the time that redheads would be a life-long weakness for me.

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Tyrannoss@reddit

SMB 1,2 & 3 are each stepping stones of pure genius.

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SuccotashMonkey867@reddit

I got this game for Christmas (thanks Mom!) and I would play it and play it until the power adapter was hot to the touch

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ChickenChaser5@reddit

After the weirdness that was the mario bros on the gameboy, I was ready for anything from mario.

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TwilightStranger@reddit

Fun fact, the tanuki, or raccoon dog, is an actual animal that was believed to have, uhm, special powers of the scrotal kind. This was depicted in old Japanese art.

https://www.curiousordinary.com/2021/07/tanuki.html#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20tanuki%27s%20most,Studio%20Ghibli%20film%20Pom%20Poko.

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newsflashjackass@reddit

The first time someone saw Mario dressed like a flying raccoon was more likely on the box art or the cartridge label.

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joshuastar@reddit

both.

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ScreenTricky4257@reddit

It's hard to describe to young gamers today how much of a sea change SMB3 was. Until it came out, video games still had the arcade mentality of "make it hard enough so that they keep having to put in quarters but not so hard that they give up." SMB3 didn't do that. It gave you a platform system you were probably familiar with from SMB1. It gave you power-ups and extra lives just for passing levels. It let you use high-powered items like the P-wing and cloud to bypass hard levels. It focused on fun instead of challenge.

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mrjackspade@reddit

I don't think it's a controversial take to say that SMB3 really solidified what a Mario game was at its core, and in doing so, is probably one of the most impactful platformers of all time.

It probably is to platformers what DOOM was to FPS. Not everything follows in it's footsteps but it's impossible to ignore the effect it had.

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joshuastar@reddit

and even Doom was just an expanded Wolfenstein3D.

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Librarian-Voter@reddit

I freaking loved Super Mario Bros 3

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vilehir363@reddit

"Inexplicably"? It's on the cartridge.

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chrisH82@reddit

Sega seeing a tail make a character fly, "We just got an idea for a new Sonic character!"

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arcee7416@reddit

I still have my GameBoy Advance with SMB3. I play it on occasion.

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Geno813@reddit

And a hidden whistle on that same level

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KochuJang@reddit

Forget the raccoon suit. It was all about the mythical hammer bros suit

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eat_like_snake@reddit

Even though I know he's a raccoon, I'll never not see the game sprite version as a tabby cat.

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TeakChipmunk@reddit

I very clearly remember the first time I saw Super Mario 3. I was visiting Denver with my folks, and we were having dinner at Casa Bonita. (SO epic. Go look it up if you’ve never gone..) I had just come across their arcade when I saw it… in all its beauty… the Super Mario 3 arcade game with Mario in his Raccoon costume. My little mind was blown. There was a third game!? And he was a raccoon!?! I couldn’t handle it. lol I got in line behind the 15 or so kids who were all waiting to play. By the time I got up there to play I was so nervous that I died really fast… but I didn’t care. I got to play it. sigh That is one of the l clearest memories I have. Lol

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