At the farmer's market with my so called girlfriend
She hands me her cell phone, says it's my dad
Man, this ain't my dad!
This is a cell phone!
I threw it on the ground!
What, you think I'm stupid?
I'm not a part of your system
My dad's not a phone!
I thought this until I saw this very post. Everything i thought I knew is a lie. My dreams are shattered. This is worse than the clouds and the bushes being the same.
My theory is it's because many of us were around 5-years-old when we first played it. Any subsequent play-through would have drawn on the old cognitive framework in place from before we would have properly associated any new stimulus with a play.
I like how cynics rarely have an understanding of how the growing mind processes info. You are absolutely right, a child would have no real framework with which to base the conclusion that the picture comes to because children aren't intimately familiar with set building. As someone who was in elementary school during smb3's hay day, I know a bunch of us were curious what those lines were.not because we were retarded, but because we had never build a stage. So as children develop they say "smb3 looks that way because that's how it looks." They move on and then their minds are blown when a new perspective hits them later in life.
Meh, not to drag a bunch of politics in here, but all Obama has to do is keep his mouth shut until around September and the GOP will self destruct with all the loonies they have in the race right now.
Wow, Bashed, that was a pretty perfect answer for that question. I'm not sure it's possible to have said it better. I would have said, "We probably got used to it before we were old enough to have understood it." The same answer basically, but... wow.
You put me to shame.
What I want to know is, **why** did we all think they were pineapples? How does that begin to make sense? They don't even look that much like pineapples, honestly!
And yet it seems to have been a pretty commonly held belief.
... because an Italian plumber from Japan who eats mushrooms to grow large enough to not get killed by turtles and muffins and brutally murders people to save his girlfriend who is probably willing to get kidnapped by that giant spiky turtle because at least *he* knows how to satisfy a woman is believable enough that a pineapple in a purple box was not some reality shattering concept but actually made enough sense to throw into this acid trip.
While I take your point, it brings up another one. I often see Mario referred to as an Italian from Japan... while his games are obviously from Japan, he himself, as a character, is from the Mushroom Kingdom, and has no connection whatsoever to Japan. Also I will assume by muffins you mean Goombas, and I'm pretty sure they are just another type of mushroom.
But yeah... pineapples.
I never even knew these existed until today... watching the youtube videos, it's no wonder. They're not exactly easy to find.
God I love Super Mario World... I honestly can't think of a better game, though that may be nostalgia speaking... The game is just so damn unique and the music so catchy. The sounds of doors opening... eargasm.
As a kid, I read and memorized every manual for every game I had, until the N64 came out, when manuals started to suck...
NES Manuals: Mario 1+Duck Hunt, Mario 2, Mario 3, Jack Nicklaus Golf
SNES Manuals: Super Mario World, Star Fox, Super Mario Kart, Sim City, (sadly, my parents weren't big on buying me with video games, fortunately, I was rewarded with video game rentals quite frequently)
But then, a little game for the Game Boy came out with a manual that is still, to this day, my favorite Video Game manual ever, Pokemon Red/Blue.
The reason I read them was because my friends always asked me questions about everything... like "What does the green star box do?" Well, you get a 1-up if you get 30 coins in the level before hitting the box.
I dare you to ask me what is the only way I've ever beaten the level "Tubular". The only way possible of course, with a blue Yoshi, and a lot of luck.
Man I never even knew the proper names for the blocks. Me and my sister just named them ourselves.
* Super Star = Star
* 3-Up Moon = Moon
* Jumping Board = Spring
* Jump Block = Music Block
* Switch Block = P
* Berry = Apple
* Prize Block = Question Block
We also had our own names for the power ups.
* Mushroom = Big
* 1Up = Free Guy
* Fire Flower = Fire Power
* Super Leaf = Tail
Yeah, I kind of figure that if I'm going to accept floating boxes with question marks on them that produce coins, I'm not going to wonder very much about a box that says things.
I mean, it's a game about plumber who rides a dinosaur to battle walking mushrooms and flying turtles in order to save a princess who's been kidnapped by a humongous spiky turtle. Are we **really** going to question something as innocuous as a basketball giving us instructions?
Yeah, I thought it was a basketball too.
I feel so special, maybe we should form a secret society, lurking in the shadows and pulling the strings on anything that is identifiable as an intercom.
So.. two decades ago when you were 2 years old you didn't know what an intercom was but you were playing Super Mario World? I'm surprised and impressed. ಠ\_ಠ
Today, in the year 2012, I realized that Mario was really not that interesting for me anymore, and that I no longer give a flying fuck about this tired franchise.
What's the purpose of the intercom? Why would they be everywhere and what are they broadcasting? I can't find a reason for them to be there and this makes less sense that a fucking box with a decorative basketball/pineapple/kiwi/whatever the fuck.
Intercoms make less fucking sense than an Italian plumber riding a lizard to eat turtles and spit out fire in order to ... man, fuck the intercoms.
oh snap!!! just like everyone, thought they were pineapples. lol, what I hated the most is that it took forever to get out of it and when you accidentally jumped up you have to see the text again..
holy shit, TIL, 31 here, i have been playing that game off and on since it came out. I remember sitting in Software ETC when the game came out and telling my brother to hit the pineapple.
Then... Then who is talking on the other side???
Shigeru Miyamoto. He knows when you're playing Mario games, and he personally talks to you, every single time.
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Is Ash a Pyrosexual?
That fire's just so damn hot.
Toadsworth brah
but who was phone?!
At the farmer's market with my so called girlfriend She hands me her cell phone, says it's my dad Man, this ain't my dad! This is a cell phone! I threw it on the ground! What, you think I'm stupid? I'm not a part of your system My dad's not a phone!
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What you want me to do with this, eat it?
They tazed me in the butthole!
Bear was phone! How can that be?
Hello? Yes, this is dog.
I always thought they were pineapples
Same, I just attributed to "japanese are weird."
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I thought this until I saw this very post. Everything i thought I knew is a lie. My dreams are shattered. This is worse than the clouds and the bushes being the same.
First [SMB3](http://i.imgur.com/MCQB1.jpg) and now this? Just when I thought I could trust the world again..
Holy fuck.
What about the ship levels?
Intervals.
how could anyone not know it was a play? it pretty much throws it in your face with the stage and curtain opening.
My theory is it's because many of us were around 5-years-old when we first played it. Any subsequent play-through would have drawn on the old cognitive framework in place from before we would have properly associated any new stimulus with a play.
I like how cynics rarely have an understanding of how the growing mind processes info. You are absolutely right, a child would have no real framework with which to base the conclusion that the picture comes to because children aren't intimately familiar with set building. As someone who was in elementary school during smb3's hay day, I know a bunch of us were curious what those lines were.not because we were retarded, but because we had never build a stage. So as children develop they say "smb3 looks that way because that's how it looks." They move on and then their minds are blown when a new perspective hits them later in life.
http://i.imgur.com/FJg0f.jpg
Good luck with this account, it has promise.
Well, until November.
Meh, not to drag a bunch of politics in here, but all Obama has to do is keep his mouth shut until around September and the GOP will self destruct with all the loonies they have in the race right now.
Wow, Bashed, that was a pretty perfect answer for that question. I'm not sure it's possible to have said it better. I would have said, "We probably got used to it before we were old enough to have understood it." The same answer basically, but... wow. You put me to shame.
Five? God damn kids.
Heh, SMB3 can out in about, what, '86-87? I'm willing to bet that most of reddit wasn't even alive yet.
Wow.
http://www.lowbird.com/data/images/2011/03/apcdn-39435.gif
my thoughts exactly.
What I want to know is, **why** did we all think they were pineapples? How does that begin to make sense? They don't even look that much like pineapples, honestly! And yet it seems to have been a pretty commonly held belief.
... because an Italian plumber from Japan who eats mushrooms to grow large enough to not get killed by turtles and muffins and brutally murders people to save his girlfriend who is probably willing to get kidnapped by that giant spiky turtle because at least *he* knows how to satisfy a woman is believable enough that a pineapple in a purple box was not some reality shattering concept but actually made enough sense to throw into this acid trip.
While I take your point, it brings up another one. I often see Mario referred to as an Italian from Japan... while his games are obviously from Japan, he himself, as a character, is from the Mushroom Kingdom, and has no connection whatsoever to Japan. Also I will assume by muffins you mean Goombas, and I'm pretty sure they are just another type of mushroom. But yeah... pineapples.
Welcome to the hive-mind
Why did we all think this??
GET OUT OF MY HEAD, THEN GET OUT OF HIS HEAD !
Me too! Since when were intercoms orange?
since when are *pineapples* orange?
nintendo employees were routinely placed in purple boxes and routinely beaten with orange pineapples.
That explains so much.
When they are ripe.
Holy fuck me too
Same.
You might want to repost this in r/pineapples. They will be dumbfounded over there.
and r/trees.
TIL they are not pineapples :D
Same. I feel really stupid now. Why in the hell would they be pineapples?
Why would pineapples be talking to you? I always assumed they were speakers of some sort.
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Well put.
Those, and a transvestite ostrich-thing.
If that's the only piece of detail that seems to be illogical while playing Super Mario, let me know your acid hooks.
Wait, pineapples don't talk to you? What the fuck have I been eating??
I think that's the same same thing [Big Lurch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lurch) said when the cops found him.
The pineapples talk to you? I never noticed. What did they say?
Overthrow the king, and get a dinosaur to eat his servants.
I always thought they were pine cones :|
I thought they were suspended pieces of ham. Don't ask why.
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Definitely an acorn. Why did I have to go so far down this thread to find this? Pineapple be damned!
nope, they are basketballs still inside the packaging. sorry. this has been my reality for 22 years and im not budging.
Am I the only one who thought they were just weird looking boxes and didn't associate a real life object to it?
That's what I thought until today too. Just dug out the manual and it just says ["Message Block"](http://i.imgur.com/EbaUZ.jpg).
Not only is your manual readable, but you knew where it was and it was actually there. Expert mode. EDIT: I a letter.
3-Up Moon
First thing that popped into my head. I loved finding these.
I never even knew these existed until today... watching the youtube videos, it's no wonder. They're not exactly easy to find. God I love Super Mario World... I honestly can't think of a better game, though that may be nostalgia speaking... The game is just so damn unique and the music so catchy. The sounds of doors opening... eargasm.
WTF? I have never ever seen one of those.
You must suck at Super Mario World.
:'(
I miss manuals that told you details of everything in the entire game.
As a kid, I read and memorized every manual for every game I had, until the N64 came out, when manuals started to suck... NES Manuals: Mario 1+Duck Hunt, Mario 2, Mario 3, Jack Nicklaus Golf SNES Manuals: Super Mario World, Star Fox, Super Mario Kart, Sim City, (sadly, my parents weren't big on buying me with video games, fortunately, I was rewarded with video game rentals quite frequently) But then, a little game for the Game Boy came out with a manual that is still, to this day, my favorite Video Game manual ever, Pokemon Red/Blue.
The reason I read them was because my friends always asked me questions about everything... like "What does the green star box do?" Well, you get a 1-up if you get 30 coins in the level before hitting the box. I dare you to ask me what is the only way I've ever beaten the level "Tubular". The only way possible of course, with a blue Yoshi, and a lot of luck.
Jesus, somebody get this guy a blowjob for doing the due diligence. Screw that karma shit.
Man I never even knew the proper names for the blocks. Me and my sister just named them ourselves. * Super Star = Star * 3-Up Moon = Moon * Jumping Board = Spring * Jump Block = Music Block * Switch Block = P * Berry = Apple * Prize Block = Question Block We also had our own names for the power ups. * Mushroom = Big * 1Up = Free Guy * Fire Flower = Fire Power * Super Leaf = Tail
That's exactly what I did. I never really cared for them enough to wonder what they were.
Yeah, I kind of figure that if I'm going to accept floating boxes with question marks on them that produce coins, I'm not going to wonder very much about a box that says things.
It was the box I hated hitting because it only slowed me down with information I already figured out.
I thought they were like pine cones or some shit
I thought they were basketballs.
YES. I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I can't believe I went for so long just accepting that I got annoying advice from a basketball.
I mean, it's a game about plumber who rides a dinosaur to battle walking mushrooms and flying turtles in order to save a princess who's been kidnapped by a humongous spiky turtle. Are we **really** going to question something as innocuous as a basketball giving us instructions? Yeah, I thought it was a basketball too.
I should not have laughed so hard at this.
I know I never did.
My thought exactly and why I never bothered to think any different. And you know what? OP has no proof they are NOT basketballs.
Pfft, to me they'll always be basketballs.
Is this where you say you think they were basketballs? Count me in.
Seems like I’m the only one here who knew this all along.
We are the 1%, I knew they were intercoms the first day played SMW.
I feel so special, maybe we should form a secret society, lurking in the shadows and pulling the strings on anything that is identifiable as an intercom.
I have a question. When I first was playing Mario I wasn't in school yet. Were you 1% in or graduated from public school at the time of playing Mario?
Let's occupy choco mountain
WOO HOO!
NO. NO. THEY'RE COCONUTS. THEY'LL ALWAYS BE COCONUTS YOU JUST STOP.
I thought they were cooked hamburgers, like on a grill.
I always thought they were a speaker or something, but I've never been 100% on what the hell they are.
You played Super Mario World at age 2? You magnificent bastard.
that is implying he played it as soon as it came out
Actually, that's inferring.
god i still remember how my snes smelled when i pulled it out of the box.
I just remembered that smell too. And now im really sad for some reason..
Did your SNES cheat on you?
I....I would rather not talk about it.
I'm there for you, brother. Mine passed away a few years ago.
my american one died. Now all I have is my japanese one...and most of my good games are american
I like others, thought pineapples or coconuts. Now I see it!
And i wish i didnt. I prefer fruit!
holy shit
wow my life just got flipped around
> my life got flipped turned upside down
I thought they were pinecones...
They're not pineapples? I've wasted my life...
Were you trying to grow talking pineapples?
They're not waffle-boxes? It wasn't the waffles giving me advice?! WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU KEPT FROM ME
I thought they were pinecones, and now I've found out the truth at 28...
Ho. Lee. Shit.
UNSTOPPABLE
GOD LIKE
M M M M M MONSTER KILL
So they aren't misshaped pineapples!?
So.. two decades ago when you were 2 years old you didn't know what an intercom was but you were playing Super Mario World? I'm surprised and impressed. ಠ\_ಠ
I always thought it looked like a pineapple-block
Pineapple, fo sho.
nope pine cones
Aren't they some sort of alarm-light with bars in front?
holy shit you just blew my mind i thought they were pineapples and im 23 dam
They aren't pineapples?
Bitch, please. They're talking cookies. Duh.
I always thought they were pineapples haha.
I thought they were pine apples...
Holy FUCK I thought they were pineapples!
I always thought they were pineapples!
I thought they were pineapple blocks
lol, I'm with everybody else. I thought they where pineapples XD but... it all makes so much sense now...
No, sir, that's a pineapple.
It's ok, I figured this out today at the age of 24 after learning it from you :D
WHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Im just gonna keep thinking it's a pineapple. For my own sanity.
How the hell is that an intercom. Why WHYYYYY
TIL...
Intercom to what?
Started playing this at the age of 2? Nice!! =D
Acorns?
til
Well yeah they are, that seemed obvious to me..... :/
Age 20. I didn't really comprehend or bothered on figuring out wtf those were.
I swore to shit that was a basketball.
Today, at the age of 22, I too now know those are intercoms. Thank you.
26, and you just showed me the light.
I thought they were acorns
i always thought they were frozen eggs (yoshi frozen eggs)
I will turn 22 this year, but because of this post, I will learn of this fact as I am still 21. I honestly thought it was a pinapple all this time.
ananas there!
I always wondered why there were basketballs in boxes that talked to me.
Today, at age 34.....
IT ISN'T A PINEAPPLE? GOD!
how in the fuck did you now know those were speakers?
Today, in the year 2012, I realized that Mario was really not that interesting for me anymore, and that I no longer give a flying fuck about this tired franchise.
28 year old here. Still thought they were retard pineapples until I read this.
Today, at the age of 19, I also realized these were intercoms.
I THOUGHT THEY WERE PINEAPPLES! Also, you were playing this game when you were 2 years old?
I just now found out what they were thanks to you.
Today, at the age of 23, I realized that those weren't pineapples.
OH MY GOD THAT'SWHATTHEYARE?!
What's the purpose of the intercom? Why would they be everywhere and what are they broadcasting? I can't find a reason for them to be there and this makes less sense that a fucking box with a decorative basketball/pineapple/kiwi/whatever the fuck. Intercoms make less fucking sense than an Italian plumber riding a lizard to eat turtles and spit out fire in order to ... man, fuck the intercoms.
Wait, you've been playing this game since you were 2 years old?
HO-LEE-SHIT. OhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygod
I guess this explains why I could never eat them on Yoshi...
Did you also realize that Mario whacks Yoshi in the back of the head to make him spit his tongue out?
oh snap!!! just like everyone, thought they were pineapples. lol, what I hated the most is that it took forever to get out of it and when you accidentally jumped up you have to see the text again..
In Japan, intercoms ARE pineapples.
Nope, it's a pineapple
I always thought it was a hamburger patty.
I always thought they were fucking pineapples.
all this time thinking it was a pineapple with the top cut off...damn you Nintendo!
holy shit, TIL, 31 here, i have been playing that game off and on since it came out. I remember sitting in Software ETC when the game came out and telling my brother to hit the pineapple.
i am 21 and my mind has just been blown...i have no idea what i thought those were before. thank you for showing me the way
Shut up, it's a beehive!
lol i always hated it when i hit them
No, those are pineapples in a purple box!
I refuse to believe those are intercoms. They are purple boxes with pineapple bodies inside of them; always have been, always will be.
I thought they were Pineapples ಠ\_ಠ
LIAR! THEY ARE PINEAPPLES!
Holy shit they aint Pineapples? No NO NOOOOO THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!
Pineapple box.
22 years old here. I always thought they were pineapples ...
That's not true...that's impossible! I too thought they were informative and friendly pineapples...