Mushroom Kingdom (SSBM)

This article refers to the Super Smash Bros. Melee stage. For other uses, see Mushroom Kingdom (disambiguation).

Kingdom
Mushroom Kingdom
Universe	Mario
Appears in	SSBM
Availability	Starter
Tournament legality Melee Singles: Banned Doubles: Banned

Mushroom Kingdom (Japanese:キノコ王国) is a starter stage in Super Smash Bros. Melee. It is Mario and Luigi's home stage. In All-Star mode, this stage is played on when you face Luigi and any of his teammates.

The stage is split up into three sections: two small platforms on the left and right, and one main one in the middle. Between the outer ones are two pits. Over the right and left platforms, there are three blocks while the middle platform has two rows of blocks above it. All the boxes are bricks, except those with flashing "?" marks. You can break any of the blocks, and breaking the "?" blocks will produce an item. Once in a while all the boxes will reappear as "?" boxes. There are also two floating platforms, each above a pit. If you stay on one too long, it will break off and fall into the pit but will reappear seconds later. Noticeably, but often unspoken of by Smash Bros. players, the Melee version doesn't use warp pipes like the original. However, by pausing and turning the camera, warp pipes that exit in the pits like in the original are visible but are behind the playable area of the stage and cannot be entered. If one pauses and turns the camera all the way to the right or left, a black wall with a word that says DANGER can be seen, which is appropriate as those areas are past the side blast lines.

Origin

This stage is from Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Entertainment System (Famicom in Japan). In SMB, one has to hit a question mark box from the bottom to get an item. In Melee, one can hit any side of the question mark box to get an item. Also in SMB, if the player has either a Super Mushroom or a Fire Flower, the player could jump under a brick box and destroy it. In Melee, you can destroy the brick box on any side and the player doesn't have to have a Super Mushroom or a Fire Flower to destroy it. In SMB, one can jump on one platform, make it go down and, make another platform go up. In Melee, this is still true. There are many references to SMB in the background of the Melee stage.

The music for this stage is the original above ground music in Super Mario Bros. (heard exactly as it was in said game).

Trivia

• In the beta version of the game, the arena had a slightly different look, similar to the SSB version. Most notably was the presence of Warp Pipes near the corners of either side that could presumably be accessed.