If you are one of the most veteran gamers, we are sure that on more than one occasion you have wondered why coins help Mario fill his oxygen meter in Super Mario 64. Well, a fan has just shared the truth behind it thanks to an old official manga.
The classic game of the most famous plumber in the world was released a few decades ago for Nintendo 64, and since then it has kept several mysteries. On this occasion, we refer to the coins that are underwater and that help Mario to swim for a longer time.
Now, it has been the Super Mario Broth team who shared some pages of an official manga in which this situation is explained, so you better take a look at it.
Here we leave it to you:
In Super Mario 64, Mario can recover air underwater by collecting coins. A Super Mario 64 manga explains that Mario breaks open the coins, which are filled with air, and inhales it. (I have rearranged the panels into a Western left-to-right reading order.) pic.twitter.com/vNAku5T4VB
— Super Mario Broth (@MarioBrothBlog) October 20, 2018
“In Super Mario 64, Mario can recover air underwater by collecting coins. A sleeve of Super Mario 64 explains that Mario breaks the coins, which are filled with air, and inhales them,” the post says.
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As you could see, in the official shared material you can see how Mario recovers oxygen by getting coins underwater. As? Well, what the character should do is break them, since these items are full of air and they should only take advantage of it to endure more time in the water.
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With this official information it is already clear why the coins are so useful for Mario, so the Mushroom Kingdom continues to surprise us.
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