1985 is the year the NES came to America. The huge number is actually most of the "emergency number" from the IT Crowd, unrelated, I just think it's a funny reference when I need a huge number. (I also used to have an NES cartridge themed IT Crowd shirt, probably why I have the mental association, which I trashed after Lineham lost his mind and went full terf.)
"Supper Mario Broth stressed that the image is taken from manga which is 'filled with jokes and eccentric theories' and therefore 'should be taken more as an interesting thought experiment than anything that would actually be endorsed by Nintendo', but fans have still been stunned all the same."
Still Awesome.
I'd like to see a gritty realistic interpretation of this.
The "mushroom" part of any fungus is a very small proportion of the overall organism. Mushrooms are just the "fruit bodies", the reproductive organs, of the fungus. The fruit runs off to spread spores. The real body of it is spread out underground in a vast mycelium network. Trust the fungus.
It's the mycelia in Mario that is interacting with itself. Every brick, tube, flagpole, castle, coin and cloud, every Venus flytrap, Bowser, Toad, etc, is just a highly organized biochemical projection, aka hallucination, humming and spiking like a series of electrical pulses across the fungal network.