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The global gaming community is collectively squinting at screens and rocking back in their chairs after the spotlighting of what is, apparently, one of the most obscure tricks in the history of classic gaming. Demonstrated on X by user @tyousameYSK, the trick in question pertains to the original NES release of Super Mario Bros. and its quintessential power-up: The Super Mushroom.
tyousameYSK's clip depicts Fun Guy Mario finding a fungi Super Mushroom in the legendary platformer's opening stage: World 1-1. Unfortunately for our hero - as has been the case for millions of players over the past four decades - the Mushroom falls from the platform and trundles off into a nearby abyss. A situation that we have all experienced on many a poor run.
But this time Mario, already perched on the stage's upper level, leaps off screen and manages to rescue the tricked-out toadstool from oblivion - bagging 1000 points and powering up our boy into Super Mario. Seemingly, the screen's wraparound effect has allowed the player to overlap Mario's sprite in the upper border with the Super Mushroom's sprite in the lower border - ironically saving the forlorn fungus from plunging into darkness by plucking it from the skies.
The response to this revelation has been bewilderment mixed with disbelief (literally in the case of some stating that the clip is faked). tyousameYSK has responded with a sense of surprise and general apathy - having not expected the accusations of fraud, nor expecting so many folks to be so stunned by the reveal.
They claim they first learned of the trick in "Keibunsha's Great Encyclopedia". This was a series of Japanese hobby books - covering gaming, anime, and manga - that were popular throughout the 1980s. So while the Mushroom Sky Save may come as a shock to a lot of players, it seems there are those who have always known about it. Like me. Because I definitely knew about it.
All those lost mushrooms... Sunrise, sunset.