The Top 7... Power-ups you DON'T want to collect

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Wait... this has made me rubbish! WHY?!

1) Purple mushroom – Super Mario Bros 2 (JPN)

Perhaps it was this collectible alone that sealed the game's fate in the West. American and European audiences had fallen in love with Mario. Giving them this downright mean morsel of game design during their gaming honeymoon might have put them off forever. It didn't, of course – the Lost Levels was one of the biggest reasons to buy All-Stars aside from the prettier graphics a few years later. But perhaps we weren't ready for this bad boy.

Even if he does now make for an awesome T-shirt.

14 July, 2011


The gaming murders that left a bad taste in our mouth


100% pointless


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