{"id":1123,"date":"2010-12-13T16:48:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T15:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2010-12-14T10:09:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T09:09:11","slug":"official-super-mario-bros-is-about-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/12\/13\/official-super-mario-bros-is-about-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official: Super Mario Bros is about Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros last month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/news\/super-mario-bros-25th-miyamoto\"><em>Famitsu <\/em>recently interviewed Shigeru Miyamoto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, about the mushrooms: It&#8217;s been something of a staple of video game culture (and video game studies) to make a tongue-in-cheek suggestion that the mushrooms were a veiled drug reference. After all, you eat (or jump on) the mushrooms, and all kinds of strange things happen. You get &#8220;high&#8221; from collecting one (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).<\/p>\n<p>Q: Why mushrooms, Shigeru?<\/p>\n<p><em>A: Since the game&#8217;s set in a magical kingdom, I  made the required power-up item a mushroom because you see people in  folk tales wandering into forests and eating mushrooms all the time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There we have it. It&#8217;s not that we can make amazing subversive counter-readings of video game symbolism to suggest that the mushrooms are related to drugs. It&#8217;s just what they officially mean.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Super Mario Brothers Mushroom Candy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekalerts.com\/u\/mario-candy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"158\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros last month, Famitsu recently interviewed Shigeru Miyamoto. Now, about the mushrooms: It&#8217;s been something of a staple of video game culture (and video game studies) to make a tongue-in-cheek suggestion that the mushrooms were a veiled drug reference. After all, you eat (or jump on) the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/12\/13\/official-super-mario-bros-is-about-drugs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s Official: Super Mario Bros is about Drugs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2972,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}