The Piranha Plant boss in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is named "Naval Piranha." You fight this giant boss at the end of level 3-8, titled "Naval Piranha's Castle". The fight takes place down in the sewer and you must slip and slide down the water to get to him.
At the end of the game, you have to fight two different versions of Bowser, in the form of a baby, and in the form of an adult. The first fight is the Baby Bowser. It's an eerie scene. You enter a dark elementary daycare-type room with children's scribbling written in chalk on the walls. The first thing you see is Kamek the Magikoopa standing there and he starts asking Yoshi to hand over baby Mario. Then you notice Baby Bowser sitting in a dark corner with glowing yellow eyes, the lights slowly begin to cut on and Baby Bowser yawns and wakes up. Kamek has a cow at the sight of Baby Bowser waking up. Then Baby Bowser gets pissed off about being awaken and straight-up stomps out Kamek. It's one of the craziest things I've ever seen in a video game.
After that, Baby Bowser goes after you, running like a maniac back-and-forth, stomping the floor and sending shockwaves across the room that damage you, awesome boss fight.
Then it's on to the final boss, Bowser as an adult, and this is one of the most intimidating bosses in video games history. He's an absolute monster. He starts off in the distance, sending huge boulders at you that smash up the ground you stand on, opening up big gaps, if you fall into the gaps you're done. On top of that, he's spitting huge fireballs at you, and it really gets frightening when he starts running towards you and gets up close. Man, what a final boss.
Speaking of Lava, level 4-4, "Marching Milde's Fort" has an awesome lava obstacle course. The first section features a spot where you must use an egg to knock a bucket into the lava and then jump into the bucket and ride it across the lava. There's absolutely no room for error when you jump into the bucket.
This part is the trickiest, you have to land on a boulder with a moving arrow on it, which ever direction the arrow is pointing when you land on it, that's the direction you go in. It's incredibly difficult to balance on this thing, you constantly have to jump up and land on it again to rebalance yourself and that arrow is all over the place, it's very easy to go right into the lava. It doesn't help matters that there's a lava monster trying to gun you down.
Another really creepy boss is the "Sluggy the Unshaven", found at the end of World 5-4 (Sluggy the Unshaven's Fort). Kamek the Magikoopa appears and transforms a slug into a giant. The goal is to hit the fuzzy, visible heart inside his clear gelatinous body four times. You throw eggs at his body and each hit indents his slimy skin, you have to throw about four eggs to indent his skin enough to strike his heart. This boss fight can be difficult because he slowly slithers forward, pushing you towards a cliff, you have to get it done fast and your aim has to be perfect every time or you're going off that cliff.
LOL. When I beat Sluggy the Unshaven, it was an epic encounter, he had me right on the edge of this cliff, I was just about to fall off when I struck the final blow and killed him. I wish I would have taken a screenshot of it.
Man, this game has so much neat and fun stuff in it. This is level 4-3, "Don't Look Back!" where you ride a big red balloon filled with Helium over a bottomless pit. As the Helium begins to run out, balancing becomes more difficult.
Like I said earlier, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island has beautiful visuals and graphics, really cool environments. Let's have a look at some of them. Check out these waterfalls of lava.
In level 3-1, "Rise of the Nasty Nep-Enuts", Yoshi can transform in a submarine by touching a morph bubble, and he can shoot little torpedos at the enemies. He can also transform into a helicopter, a train, and other cool stuff as well.
The blue water monster in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is called a "Nep-Enut." It is a massive, blue, water-dwelling counterpart to the lava-living "Gargantua Blargg." A giant blue creature that hides beneath the surface of the water, it suddenly leaps up from the water to block Yoshi's path when approached. They cannot be permanently defeated, but hitting them with an egg or jumping on them temporarily forces them back underwater. A menace of an enemy to deal with.
The dreaded Gargantua Blargg. They have the same characteristics as the Nep-Enut except they're more dangerous because they inhabit the lava, obviously there's no recovering from the lava, if they knock you in, you're done.
In Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Yoshi hallucinates when he touches a floating, spore-like enemy named a Fuzzy in World 1-7, famously titled "Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy". The effects of the hallucinating are insane and make gameplay incredibly difficult. The background and foreground bend, wave, and shift colors. Yoshi stumbles around erratically and slides on the ground as if his controls are compromised. The ground behaves like a slippery slope, making precise movement difficult until the effect wears off. It's one of the craziest things I've seen in a video game.
"Raphael the Raven" is the boss of World 5 and this boss fight is insane. Kamek enlarges him and sends you and him to the Moon, and that's where the battle takes place. This is one of the most difficult bosses of the game, the gravity and physics of the battle are incredibly awkward and its hard to pin him down.
Ok, I guess that's enough about Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, it's just a masterpiece of a video game and one of the funnest experiences you can get as a gamer.
Ok, that concludes my tribute to Super Mario Bros. It's my favorite video game franchise of all-time. There's just something about Mario and Luigi, the story, the Mushroom Kingdom, it's magical and really captures the imagination and makes you feel like a kid again. But it's also the environment of the games, the gameplay itself, and the difficult challenge of conquering them, there's no adrenaline rush quite like it. I know I'm not alone in this line of thinking because Mario is the most successful video game character of all-time, over 945 million units sold. Thank you to the creators of this franchise, it was one hell of a ride gentlemen. I hope you'll throw some more at us someday. This is where it all began, in the year 1889.
Ok, back to boxing and the great photos behind the cards. Up next, Kid Gavilan. Kid Gavilan (born Gerardo González, was the undisputed world welterweight champion from 1951 to 1954. Known as "The Cuban Hawk," he was famous for his blazing speed, stellar defensive skills, and popularizing the looping "bolo punch". He got his nickname from his first manager, Fernando Balido, who owned a Havana cafe and grocery store named "El Gavilán" (which translates to "The Hawk"). Balido named the young boxer after his establishment, leading to the ring name Kid Gavilán and the enduring nickname "The Cuban Hawk." Oh yeah, he also possessed one of the greatest chins in boxing history, you couldn't knock him out with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. Over the course of 143 professional fights against elite competition, the legendary welterweight champion was never once knocked out and was only knocked down twice. He took flush, hard punches from all-time greats like Sugar Ray Robinson, Carmen Basilio, Johnny Bratton, Beau Jack, and Ike Williams without ever getting stopped. He fought over 1,300 rounds across his career, frequently moving up in weight to face bigger punchers, yet his durability remained completely reliable. Legendary fighter. Let's get to the cards, this is the 1951 Topps Ringside - Kid Gavilan.
The 1951 "Bread for Energy" cards were issued as end-of-loaf paper labels by regional bakeries, most notably Fischer's Bread (Fisher's Baking Company) and Junge's Bread. There's an uncut sheet on eBay right now with the Kid Gavilan and the asking price is $10,000.
The cards that never were....1948 Leaf Gum - Kid Gavilan. The image on this card came from the cover of the May 1949 issue of Ring magazine in which Gavilan graced the cover.
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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island has just beautiful visuals. Check out Mario and Yoshi floating on a platform in a pool of lava.
The Piranha Plant boss in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is named "Naval Piranha." You fight this giant boss at the end of level 3-8, titled "Naval Piranha's Castle". The fight takes place down in the sewer and you must slip and slide down the water to get to him.
This game has quite a few creepy bosses and the Naval Pirahna is certainly one of them, he has little Pirahna Plant tentacles and charges at you.
At the end of the game, you have to fight two different versions of Bowser, in the form of a baby, and in the form of an adult. The first fight is the Baby Bowser. It's an eerie scene. You enter a dark elementary daycare-type room with children's scribbling written in chalk on the walls. The first thing you see is Kamek the Magikoopa standing there and he starts asking Yoshi to hand over baby Mario. Then you notice Baby Bowser sitting in a dark corner with glowing yellow eyes, the lights slowly begin to cut on and Baby Bowser yawns and wakes up. Kamek has a cow at the sight of Baby Bowser waking up. Then Baby Bowser gets pissed off about being awaken and straight-up stomps out Kamek. It's one of the craziest things I've ever seen in a video game.
After that, Baby Bowser goes after you, running like a maniac back-and-forth, stomping the floor and sending shockwaves across the room that damage you, awesome boss fight.
Then it's on to the final boss, Bowser as an adult, and this is one of the most intimidating bosses in video games history. He's an absolute monster. He starts off in the distance, sending huge boulders at you that smash up the ground you stand on, opening up big gaps, if you fall into the gaps you're done. On top of that, he's spitting huge fireballs at you, and it really gets frightening when he starts running towards you and gets up close. Man, what a final boss.
Music break.
The sheer fun of video games on display, watch this gamers reaction to falling into the lava twice.
Speaking of Lava, level 4-4, "Marching Milde's Fort" has an awesome lava obstacle course. The first section features a spot where you must use an egg to knock a bucket into the lava and then jump into the bucket and ride it across the lava. There's absolutely no room for error when you jump into the bucket.
You must then ride a spinning wheel platform across the lava, again, no room for error.
This part is the trickiest, you have to land on a boulder with a moving arrow on it, which ever direction the arrow is pointing when you land on it, that's the direction you go in. It's incredibly difficult to balance on this thing, you constantly have to jump up and land on it again to rebalance yourself and that arrow is all over the place, it's very easy to go right into the lava. It doesn't help matters that there's a lava monster trying to gun you down.
Another really creepy boss is the "Sluggy the Unshaven", found at the end of World 5-4 (Sluggy the Unshaven's Fort). Kamek the Magikoopa appears and transforms a slug into a giant. The goal is to hit the fuzzy, visible heart inside his clear gelatinous body four times. You throw eggs at his body and each hit indents his slimy skin, you have to throw about four eggs to indent his skin enough to strike his heart. This boss fight can be difficult because he slowly slithers forward, pushing you towards a cliff, you have to get it done fast and your aim has to be perfect every time or you're going off that cliff.
LOL. When I beat Sluggy the Unshaven, it was an epic encounter, he had me right on the edge of this cliff, I was just about to fall off when I struck the final blow and killed him. I wish I would have taken a screenshot of it.
Man, this game has so much neat and fun stuff in it. This is level 4-3, "Don't Look Back!" where you ride a big red balloon filled with Helium over a bottomless pit. As the Helium begins to run out, balancing becomes more difficult.
Like I said earlier, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island has beautiful visuals and graphics, really cool environments. Let's have a look at some of them. Check out these waterfalls of lava.
A dangerous ride over a spike pit.
In level 3-1, "Rise of the Nasty Nep-Enuts", Yoshi can transform in a submarine by touching a morph bubble, and he can shoot little torpedos at the enemies. He can also transform into a helicopter, a train, and other cool stuff as well.
Helicopter Yoshi.
Train Yoshi.
Car Yoshi.
Mole Yoshi, he can dig through dirt.
A few more cool looking environments in Yoshi's Island.
Shy-Guy enemies on stilts.
The blue water monster in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is called a "Nep-Enut." It is a massive, blue, water-dwelling counterpart to the lava-living "Gargantua Blargg." A giant blue creature that hides beneath the surface of the water, it suddenly leaps up from the water to block Yoshi's path when approached. They cannot be permanently defeated, but hitting them with an egg or jumping on them temporarily forces them back underwater. A menace of an enemy to deal with.
The dreaded Gargantua Blargg. They have the same characteristics as the Nep-Enut except they're more dangerous because they inhabit the lava, obviously there's no recovering from the lava, if they knock you in, you're done.
Look at this nasty contraption.
Love this level with the volcanoes in the background.
"Roger the Potted Ghost", the boss of 2-8 (The Potted Ghost's Castle).
You get some cool bonus challenge games as well in Yoshi's Island.
In Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Yoshi hallucinates when he touches a floating, spore-like enemy named a Fuzzy in World 1-7, famously titled "Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy". The effects of the hallucinating are insane and make gameplay incredibly difficult. The background and foreground bend, wave, and shift colors. Yoshi stumbles around erratically and slides on the ground as if his controls are compromised. The ground behaves like a slippery slope, making precise movement difficult until the effect wears off. It's one of the craziest things I've seen in a video game.
"Raphael the Raven" is the boss of World 5 and this boss fight is insane. Kamek enlarges him and sends you and him to the Moon, and that's where the battle takes place. This is one of the most difficult bosses of the game, the gravity and physics of the battle are incredibly awkward and its hard to pin him down.
Ok, I guess that's enough about Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, it's just a masterpiece of a video game and one of the funnest experiences you can get as a gamer.
Really cool artwork for Yoshi's Island.
Ok, that concludes my tribute to Super Mario Bros. It's my favorite video game franchise of all-time. There's just something about Mario and Luigi, the story, the Mushroom Kingdom, it's magical and really captures the imagination and makes you feel like a kid again. But it's also the environment of the games, the gameplay itself, and the difficult challenge of conquering them, there's no adrenaline rush quite like it. I know I'm not alone in this line of thinking because Mario is the most successful video game character of all-time, over 945 million units sold. Thank you to the creators of this franchise, it was one hell of a ride gentlemen. I hope you'll throw some more at us someday. This is where it all began, in the year 1889.
Music break. I have to say, Nas is right there with the best that ever did it.
Ok, back to boxing and the great photos behind the cards. Up next, Kid Gavilan. Kid Gavilan (born Gerardo González, was the undisputed world welterweight champion from 1951 to 1954. Known as "The Cuban Hawk," he was famous for his blazing speed, stellar defensive skills, and popularizing the looping "bolo punch". He got his nickname from his first manager, Fernando Balido, who owned a Havana cafe and grocery store named "El Gavilán" (which translates to "The Hawk"). Balido named the young boxer after his establishment, leading to the ring name Kid Gavilán and the enduring nickname "The Cuban Hawk." Oh yeah, he also possessed one of the greatest chins in boxing history, you couldn't knock him out with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. Over the course of 143 professional fights against elite competition, the legendary welterweight champion was never once knocked out and was only knocked down twice. He took flush, hard punches from all-time greats like Sugar Ray Robinson, Carmen Basilio, Johnny Bratton, Beau Jack, and Ike Williams without ever getting stopped. He fought over 1,300 rounds across his career, frequently moving up in weight to face bigger punchers, yet his durability remained completely reliable. Legendary fighter. Let's get to the cards, this is the 1951 Topps Ringside - Kid Gavilan.
1951 Bread for Energy - Kid Gavilan. Extremely rare card.
The 1951 "Bread for Energy" cards were issued as end-of-loaf paper labels by regional bakeries, most notably Fischer's Bread (Fisher's Baking Company) and Junge's Bread. There's an uncut sheet on eBay right now with the Kid Gavilan and the asking price is $10,000.
2010 Ringside Boxing Round One - Turkey Red - Gold #/9 - Kid Gavilan.
The cards that never were....1948 Leaf Gum - Kid Gavilan. The image on this card came from the cover of the May 1949 issue of Ring magazine in which Gavilan graced the cover.