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Who’s the Miniboss?

Posted on August 29, 2012 by

They had New Super Mario Bros. 2 on display at Walmart, so I played it up through the first fortress, and already I noticed the focus on collecting coins. It makes it easy to get extra lives, but I can’t … Continue reading →

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Who Put the Thwomp in the Thwomp-Ba-Domp-Ba-Domp?

Posted on October 20, 2010 by

Moving on down the list of Mario enemies (well, figuratively speaking, anyway; I’m not actually working from a list, and I’m not sure how many more I’ll write posts about), we come to the Thwomps, giant stone blocks with faces … Continue reading →

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