VIDEO GAME – ” On what drug is based on Super Mario Bros. Wonder? » This question was quick to appear on video game fan forums once the first images of the brand new Nintendo game were revealed to the public, in June 2023, and including the trailer can be found at the top of this article.
Let’s say it: the visuals of the new adventures of the plumber, which were released this Friday, October 20, tend towards the psychedelic. To the point of having triggered an almost serious quest: what does Mario intoxicate himself with to move from his usual environment to a universe in which enemies dance and pipes jiggle, all against a rainbow background? sky ? Of course, journalists from HuffPost (and internet experts) have found the answer.
A hallucinogenic psychotropic drug ingested by Mario?
Clue number one: Mario ingests a suspicious flower before the world around him transforms. For you, it’s an innocent blue flower surrounded by a halo of mystery, but for connoisseurs of artificial paradises, the answer is quite different.
As noted by users of Reddit, the purple inflorescence indeed closely resembles a flower of the genus Ipomée. The azure blue ipomea to be precise. In the seeds of the charming ornament? A hallucinogenic psychotropic drug, ergine. Its effects range from hallucination to euphoria, a bit like LSD (but this time it is LSA). Odd…
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An azure blue ipomoea and Mario’s favorite flower.
To find out for sure, the best thing to do is to contact those who know. Have consumers, those addicted to intoxication, experienced this kind of transformation? Inanimate beings that speak? Neon colors like it was raining? A universe in unison to sing songs to you? Fans of hallucinogenic mushrooms have responded: it is undoubtedly possible if we refer to theeffect of psilocybinanother psychotropic substance (made famous in song a few decades ago).
Already a consumer of toxic mushrooms
So Mario draws his power from a poisonous flower loaded with mushroom toxin? There is a mystery there that can only be understood by returning to the origins of Mario and his creator himself. In 2009Shigeru Miyamoto, Mario’s father, explained the importance of mushrooms like this: “There has always been a connection between mushrooms and the realm of dreams,” justifying, already that Mario has been consuming mushrooms to grow since the very first episode, released in 1985.
Mario’s iconic mushroom and the fly agaric.
And even back then, it wasn’t just any mushroom: Amanita muscariaor fly agaric, the only red amanita with white spots… A mushroom known for its toxicity, and of course, its hallucinogenic effects (but above all, remember, its serious health dangers).
Super Mario Bros. Wonder would therefore not be, far from it, the plumber’s first adventure among prohibited substances, but simply the transition from one consumption to another. There also remains another possibility: that it is just a colorful video game, with inspirations drawn from the world of childhood and dreams, where certain artificial and unsavory paradises also lead.
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