8. The Goomba: A Sad Tale Of Madness
ID: BDAB-0000-0033-2697 Ever thought what life must be like for a goomba, destined to have your head stomped by a fat plumber for all eternity without anyone sparing a thought for what exactly happens to you when you fall off the bottom of the screen? I like to think that this level depicts what happens to a goomba after it gets stomped by Mario. It gets sent a nightmarish purgatory where time and space are out of whack, and you must murder many of your own in your attempt to find your way back out to the surface. But your quest to get back to the surface is doomed to fail, as how can the Goomba Gods forgive the genocide of your own kind that you're forced to carry out in this level. Those screams when you send a hundred of them into the lava will stay with you forever... though admittedly they are kind of hilarious.
Robert Zak
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