Monday, July 30, 2012

You Know You're A Mario Nerd When, Volume I


You see the badly drawn head of King Koopa in the clouds on the drive home.

You're bored at work and you imagine what it would be like if Rudy the Clown became your new coworker.

You drew your own Yoshi characters in elementary school and still draw new ones in college.

You can sing "Medamayaki" by heart.

You made your own custom Mario Party boards and player tokens.

You made a Pipe House out of cardboard and doll toys.

You hear Mario-game-specific instruments and melodies in unrelated songs. (Wario Land 4, or am I crazy?)

You had Luigi as your imaginary best friend when you were a child.

You see that all soundtracks for a certain Mario game online have missed a song so you make a recording of it yourself.

You have a stuffed penguin named Tuxie.

You have a stuffed dolphin named Stuffy.

You have a red, orange and tan stuffed snake named Hizza.

You spent unspeakable amounts of time copying and pasting Japanese characters from The Mushroom Kingdom's "Mario in Japan" section into Google to find obscure character art and merchandise.

You rewrote the whole Mario Kart 64 instruction manual into a notebook when you were young.

You imagine characters in sitcoms and movies as various Mario characters.

You ate a Luigi face sandwich with star buns.

Your mom yelled at you because you left the TV on at Seaside Town (or other locations) and turned the volume up to act as a music player back before you had an MP3 player.

You also held your Game Boy Advance up to your ear to listen to the sweet tunes of Mario Kart: Super Circuit before bed.

You played Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga for the first time and it was torture to go to school because you couldn't hear the awesome music and you didn't know it by heart yet.

You then spent all day trying to remember most of a song and ended up making crappy fan art of Peasley instead.

You have Mario shirts, pants, bed sheets, blankets, bags, wallets, and jewelry.

You still listen to Mario cassette tapes and CDs you made at least ten years ago.

You have used "Something Suspicious" and "E-Mail from X" (or Ice Land) as your ringtone.

You met your true love because of Mario.

Your true love gave you a question mark-shaped ring.

You want specific Mario songs played at your wedding.