WARIO SHAKE IT HIGHLY COMPRESSED SERIESThe only other time Ratchet Scrolling is used in the series is in New Super Mario Bros., which includes it for "Challenge Mode" in a homage to the first game. Most Mario games afterwards abandoned this type of scrolling for Auto Scrolling Levels in a few places while allowing backtracking everywhere else. The way the levels were compressed required this. The first game, The Lost Levels, and Super Mario Land use Ratchet Scrolling, which prevented players from going back.Accordingly, it's not clear at all that the Mushroom Retainers are their own species, as the Toads appear to be in future entries there's nothing indicating the Mushroom Retainers aren't human like the Princess, and indeed, their being human would resolve the oddity of a human princess ruling over an entirely non-human kingdom. The characters that would later be called "Toads" are known here as "Mushroom Retainers", a title justifying the mushroom-hat (or occasionally part of their head) costume that would later become standard for all Toads at all times here, they wear their distinctive outfit because they are members of the royal court, a detail gradually forgotten in later games.Later games would have him undergo Divergent Character Evolution to have multiple gameplay differences, such as a higher jump height, slower running speed, and lower traction (all codified in The Lost Levels). Luigi in this game solely existed as a Palette Swap of Mario for the second player that otherwise played identically to his brother (the same being true in Mario Bros.Super Mario World gives Mario and Luigi's clothes more definition, including back pockets on their overalls, which wouldn't be shown in detail again until Super Smash Bros. 3, Mario and Luigi wear black instead of blue, although Super Mario Bros. With fire power, the brothers look identical, with both having a red-white color scheme (Luigi's original green/white look would eventually be codified as his Fire form with Super Mario World). Due to palette limitations, Luigi's hair also appears green. In addition, Mario has red overalls and a brown (blue in most merchandise of that era) shirt in the first game, while Luigi has white overalls and a green shirt, instead of their trademark blue overalls with a red/green shirt and White Gloves. Later games would reverse this, calling big Mario just "Mario" and Mario's mushroom-less form "Small Mario". Indeed, in the game's manual, Mario's mushroom-less form is called simply "Mario" and is treated as Mario's canonical size, with big Mario referred to as "Super Mario". What we'd call "Small Mario" in later titles appears to be his normal height in the first game. WARIO SHAKE IT HIGHLY COMPRESSED MANUALTo make it clear what you'll be facing, the manual explains, "Along the way are mountains, pits, seas, turtle soldiers, and a host of traps and riddles." You are outright told to kill, not just defeat, the Turtle Tribe, including Little Goomba, a mushroom who betrayed the Mushrooom Kingdom Koopa Troopa, a soldier of the Turtle Empire Spiny, a "wild fighter" Bloobers (later "Bloopers") man-eating Piranha Plants, and Podoboos who emerge from a lake of fire and protect Bowser the sorcerer king. Magic Mushrooms, Fire Flowers, and the Starman are Mario's friends, and have been turned into bricks or have been turned invisible, referring to invisible blocks hitting those blocks has the power-ups rewarding you with their power. The seven Mushroom Retainers (Toads), originally in the Princess' court, have been put under the spell of the Koopa King. The daughter of the Mushroom King, the Princess, can undo this spell, which is why you must rescue her from the Koopa turtle king and save the Mushroom People from the Koopa's black magic (in contrast to future games, where Bowser kidnaps Peach either to lure Mario into traps or because he wants her romantically). The Koopa are a tribe of turtles, or Turtle Tribe, known for their black magic, which they use to turn the Mushroom People into stones, bricks and horse-hair plants. Story: The manual offers some lore, most of which is never brought up at all in later games.(and by extension, Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, unless otherwise noted): Needless to say, no subsequent media would run with the idea. (one of the first "third-party" games in the franchise, being released in 1984 by Hudson Soft) features an odd story blurb framing Mario & Luigi as primitive people living outside of modern society. The story is absent from the manual in the NES version. The manual for the Atari 26 versions states the pipes in Mario the carpenter and his brother Luigi's house are blocked by crawling creatures, meaning this game is a depiction of their version of Earth.In most versions of the game, Mario's hat was blue!.
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