This 'Bug' in Super Mario Bros Is Genius Game Design

good game

-- Music Used
Castle Theme - Super Mario Bros
crypto type beat - Going Under (feasly) [this song absolutely bangs]

-- Videos Used
(My Switch borked recently, so I had to use a lot of other people's videos for this short)

-- References

[MostestMuscles]

Not a bug. From the Super Mario Bros. wiki: "one of the programmers accidentally inserted an upside-down Koopa Troopa shell when portraying Bowser's death animation as if he were defeated with fireballs. The developers liked this idea, and as a result, this idea was extended to most of the Bowser battles in the game."

So it started as a bug and the developers kept it in to add to the story of the game.


Edit: Link didn't work, so I put in a part of the wiki

[matthewstar]

In Super Mario 3D Land, they actually brought this back - The fake bowsers turn into a Goomba or some other enemy upon being defeated

[zombieguy]

Was originally a bug during testing, but was intentionally implemented upon discovery

[BookwormKevin]

Mario 3d land does this too, and mario party jamboree has "imposter bowser", so nintendo still references it sometimes

[LOL_]

"We don't see magic" meanwhile mario sumons balls of fire and gets ivinsebel from a juming star

[davidpacifico]

Imagine if one day it’s revealed that those seven enemies are now best buddies and high ranking members of the koopa troop, maybe they even team up with the koopalings against Mario,

[Yourfat]

‘We don’t see magic’ the blocks you break were once toads, turned by kamek

[mc.maxalot]

It was a bug
The developers just kept it

[Narclinius_PPrism]

Honestly, I thought that this was common knowledge.

[Dr.sagybal]

I think it would be funny if in like ten years they revealed that the bowser we’ve seen in all the mainline and spin-off was a goomba the whole time

[GamerGabe-ke]

Is a bug, they just ended up liking it

[FrancescoDavidBoassoILGrande]

in reality it says OUR princess is in another castle

[JaydenBond-hb]

Me after the video: "And that's exactly what happened." Because there's now Super Mario Wonder.

[danielbutler]

It was a bug, but they decided to keep it in. That happened a few times in old games, a glitch becoming a feature. Another is the Invaders In Space Invaders speeding up only happened because having more slowed the game down, creating the difficulty curve in Video Games.

[SpeedyGamerTV]

It was originally a bug, but they liked the idea.

[luigienthusiast]

i knew i saw something in the shine when bowser got blasted

[Nazo-kage]

It’s not just the narrative storytelling of the Bowser clones.
There’s also the backstory you get from the instruction booklet.

Where it stated, Bowser turned all the residence of the mushroom kingdom into blocks and plants.
And in fact, his magic cannot be canceled by anybody but the princess.

So there’s even more of a narrative reason of why he kidnaps her.

[badcreator]

Not exactly, in the games manual it tells you the whole story with basically no interpretation needed unless you of course didn't read it.

[michellemm]

I always thought it was parts of his life.
When we has born he was just a nobody solider (goomba)
Then he roose through the ranks (2-4)
He became a arieal attacker (5)
A Navy solider (6)
A marine (7)
And finally he became the leader (8)
Or its just military ranks in general
1-4 would be army
5 is airforce
6 is navy
7 is marines/special forces
And 8 is the general

[letter_o_hyphen_letter_o]

the silent narrative is subjective. maybe they didn't think it was obvious enough that time?