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dc.contributor.authorSalvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-14T14:17:53Z
dc.date.available2024-03-14T14:17:53Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-11
dc.description.abstractNintendo has recently released a new Mario game, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, a multiplayer platformer involving a good dose of mushrooms, both in-game and presumably during development. But psychedelic trips aside, in the first few stages of the game we are introduced to a completely new (and arguably the best) “enemy” in Mario games: a snail with a fabulous pink shell. Figure 1. Snail (©Nintendo, 2023; fair use). Source: Super Mario Wiki (https://mariowiki.com/). So far, this critter remains unnamed, but the Super Mario Wiki refers to it as Snail, with a capital S. So, I will use this name throughout this article. It’s not very creative, I agree, but maybe safer than risking a bad pun like in some Pokémon names. The Snail has a pink shell and a green soft body. Its tentacles are striped and its eyes are located below the tentacles. Overall, it is a cartoonish design – as it should be – but an interesting one nevertheless. First, it’s kinda cute. Secondly, it has some curious features that are an excuse for me to discuss a little bit about real-world biology. So, let’s get down to the snail science.en_US
dc.descriptionSource at <a href=https://jgeekstudies.org/>https://jgeekstudies.org/</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSalvador RB. The snails of Super Mario Bros. Journal of Geek Studies. 2023;102(2):117-127en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2254245
dc.identifier.doi10.5281/zenodo.10644166
dc.identifier.issn2359-3024
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/33168
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Geek Studiesen_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Geek Studies
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)en_US
dc.titleThe snails of Super Mario Brosen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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