The Halloween Surprise Hiding in Super Mario World

In this post, I will do something that years of being online have taught me not to do: admit that I didn’t notice something. I’ll explain why this is extremely brave of me in the miscellaneous section at the end of the post, but for now I’ll just get straight to the point: Yeah, I somehow never put it together that there’s a very obvious Halloween thing happening in Super Mario World. I suspect I’m not the only one who knew of this thing and did not identify it as specifically Halloweenish, however.I speak, of course, of the secret that in the original, SNES version of the game is unlocked by beating the Special Zone, the collection of especially challenging stages you access via the Star Road. Once you beat the eighth and final stage, the world map gets a different look; essentially, everything that was green before becomes brown, save for the sixth area of the game, Chocolate Island, which is now a minty green. Support this site: on Patreon! • on Kofi!This is usually interpreted as…