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How many goombas have you slayed in your lifetime?

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How many goombas have you stomped/kicked/set aflame/hammered/frozen/sent hurtling to an untimely death?

Poll ends September 13th, on the 30th anniversary of the Super Mario Bros. Famicom release.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
1,000-9,999 goombas 10
10,000-99,999 goombas 8
100-999 goombas 5
over 10,000,000 goombas 3
10-99 goombas 3
2-9 goombas 3
no goombas 2
100,000-999,999 goombas 1
1,000,000-9,999,999 goombas 1
1 goomba 0


― example (crüt), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 19:21 (eleven years ago)

I stabbed a goomba in the neck after he torched my Uncle Mario's plumbing business.

― Smoothie Operator (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 19:27 (eleven years ago)

I have a little over 11,000 days. I didn't slay any goombas until I was 4 or 5. then for 10 years I probably slayed, on average, maybe 100 goombas a day? that's probably overestimating it. it's hard to guess. but i'm going with 100,000-999,999 goombas

― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:28 (eleven years ago)

Been playing 3D Land, where you can murder stacks of up to like 10 in one single death stomp

― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 19:39 (eleven years ago)

There are 16 goombas in level one of SMB alone. (Amazingly nobody seems to have done a goomba count in any one SMB game.) Goombas are in most levels of most Mario games besides flight/water levels. iirc there are bonus levels in New SMB where you squish in excess of 75 goombas in 60 second. I think 100 goombas per day is low. I'm going to guess that it averages out to around 6-7 goombas per minute of gameplay across all Mario games. It might even be higher than that.

― antexit, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:14 (eleven years ago)

3-6

― brimstead, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:22 (eleven years ago)

i want to meet the person that hit one goomba and quit it

― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:30 (eleven years ago)

i half-expected there to be a "how many goomahs have you slayed in your lifetime" thread on one of the other boards tbqh

that said i imagine we are also including raccoon spins & kuribo's boot as slays? because i was thinking 2-9 goombas but that may double my output

― Francis Björk Morgan (Will M.), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:38 (eleven years ago)

i mean itll still be 2-9 goombas b/c i was on the low end of 2-9

you know what, don't answer the question fuck it nvm

― Francis Björk Morgan (Will M.), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:39 (eleven years ago)

I smack a goombah in the face just for livin

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:49 (eleven years ago)

i voted over 10,000,000 goombas but honestly i don't know i wasn't counting the bodies i just know i'm up to my chin in goomba blood

― Mordy, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:52 (eleven years ago)

Used to go to Donut Plains 4 and grab a star and just run through goombas, and do this over and over again.

― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:55 (eleven years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511EE3XVNTL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

― antexit, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:57 (eleven years ago)

fuck

FUCK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AplG6KnOr2Q

― Francis Björk Morgan (Will M.), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:05 (eleven years ago)

Cause you know when my nine goes buck
it'll bust your head like a goombah dropped from 12 stories up

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:07 (eleven years ago)

"If I jump on Goomba, then it certainly dies."

― Mordy, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:09 (eleven years ago)

Mario Lives! so amazing

― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:11 (eleven years ago)

"Mario, what do you know about goomba" is screaming to be sampled in some techno song.

― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:13 (eleven years ago)

seven months pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 12 September 2015 00:01 (eleven years ago)

The cops can only tie me to 50

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 12 September 2015 00:53 (eleven years ago)

my copy of Super Mario Maker hasn't arrived yet but when it does I will definitely make an Infinite Goomba auto-murderer

― go hang a salami I'm a canal, adam (silby), Saturday, 12 September 2015 02:03 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 13 September 2015 00:01 (eleven years ago)

1 goomba 0

it never ends with just the one

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 13 September 2015 00:02 (eleven years ago)

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/253377/The_long_shadow_of_Super_Mario_Bros.php

Really cool article on SMB, how the levels were coded in to save space, and how those workarounds resulted in the -1 world being randomly generated. Apparently you can hack 256 alternate levels on a Famicom with a cart swapping trick.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:23 (eleven years ago)

very interesting

― Nhex, Monday, 14 September 2015 06:35 (eleven years ago)

four months pass...

The goombas have won as long as this particular goomba is unkillable, imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdXyDLsemz8

― jmm, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 17:38 (ten years ago)

I've killed four goombas but I ate every part of the goombas thusly maintaining the circle of life.

― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 17:45 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aSRM8pDrDI

posted elsewhere but holy shit.
if nothing else, skip in and watch the last three minutes in world 8-4

― ulysses, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 14:31 (ten years ago)


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