The King Of All Wild Tanookis
Posted by admin in Pop Culture / Geeky / Video Games tagged with Super Mario Bros / Nintendo / Power Up / Geek / NES / Mario / Gaming / Where the Wild Things Are / Video Games / Childrens Books / Tanooki / Tanooki Suit / Maurice Sendak OnAnd when he came to the place where the wild tanookis are They roared their cute roars and gnashed their adorable teeth And rolled their silly eyes and showed their cute claws Till Mario said, “BE-A STILL!” And tamed them with the power up Of staring into all their yellow […]
Koopa Country
Posted by admin in Movies & TV / Pop Culture / Video Games tagged with Super Mario Bros / Nintendo / Fear and Loathing / Las Vegas / Mushroom Kingdom / Hunter S Thompson / Raoul Duke / Power Up OnComparisons between Super Mario Bros and Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” were inevitable. Certainly, both appear to have been created in drug-induced hazes over sleepless nights and both main characters are reliant on the continued use of various…ahem… “power-ups” to do the job at hand. Featuring […]
