A lot of enemies had shells in Super Mario Bros.

[from zero]

My other Super Mario Bros. thread got me thinking. Like the Koopa Troopas. And Bowser. And those black beetle things. Those dudes that threw the hammers. All those fuckers had shells.

 

[BrandonXJ]

Yoshi came out of an egg, which has a shell.

 

[bran987]

I would get hit by the hammers and then go from being big mario to little mario or I would lose my fireballs which sucked.
whenever i got the fireballs I was pretty happy

 

[from zero]

WTf are you people talking about ...

 

[tuc biscuit]

a guy at my school was called Yoshi

 

[Lumberg]

I would get hit by the hammers and then go from being big mario to little mario or I would lose my fireballs which sucked.
whenever i got the fireballs I was pretty happy

Yeah and you couldn't land on those guys to turn them into the kickable shell either. Those guys sucked.

But the game was fun.

You know what I could never do? That thing where you jump on the dude in the shell coming down that staircase at the end of one of the levels and just bounce it against one of the steps over and over til you gain all kinds of crazy points and 1ups and shit. I had the Turbo joystick too. I don't think I ever got in the secret level either, but there was no point in that.

 

[PIGEON-RAT]

Mario has a shell too. His shell is this fearless plumber persona who is in love with the Princess, but on this inside he really wants a strong man to love him.

 

[WalkingBeast]

Now that I think about it, that shit pisses me the fuck off! That fucker mario ripped apart those fuckers with his barehands too, with little resources. FUCKING BEAST!! -TheFuckingBeast

 

[RaZor Ramon]

I think that's the point of it. Didn't the original Mario Brothers game just have Mario jumping on turtles? Super Mario brothers grew from there and I think all enemies were some kind of mutated turtle.

 

[SoreArms]

Haven't your parent bought you a playstation or X box yet?

 

[Ulcasterdropout]

even those flying Lakitu had shells. I still hate them....
http://cube.smedia.co.uk/downloads/pictures/smb/lakitu.gif