What I remember about the Tanooki Suit as a child is the pure frustration of obtaining such an OP item only to lose it permanently after getting hit by some random enemy within 20 seconds
I remember those times too but when I got more skill I was able to play with Tanooki many levels in row without loosing him. The sane situation is with Hammer suit, you just need enaough skill to enjoy such power :)
@@ethervagabond Although not as criminally underused as the shoe, the hammer suit definitely is too rare and too powerful to actually use when you actually get one.
8:54 Actually you CAN Tanuki the Bowser lasers. You just have to attack the right place on them. If I remember correctly, the statue laser we see in your video is one you need to attack a bit higher up.
Same! I have literally been playing this game since the day it came out in the US, and I never realized that turning into the statue midair lets you stomp previously unstompable enemies! My mind is so blown right now
7:50 - As if hefting this guy around wasn't straining enough. Love the video, though! I never could keep the Tanooki Suit for more than a single level, so it's awesome to see what things you can crush and what you can't.
"We're experiencing some technical difficulties, due to Darby making a horrible pun about Boomerang Bros. Please stand by until we get the issue resolved."
Big Bertha is what Boss Bass is called underwater. Also, Boss Bass, and, by extension, Big Bertha, both CAN, in fact, be killed by Tanooki Mario in its Statue form, but, like the Thwomp and Lava Lotus, it has a unique hit box that has to be hit just right. You could probably do it easier via by using the Game Genie, Pro Action Replay, or Gameshark devices on a particular system, as well as enabling a permanent Tanooki Mario code.
2:46 technically you can tanook them, something is tanooked if it can be touch by the tanooki suit (if tanooki mario in statue form dosen't fall trough the enemy) and there is interaction like bouncing on it but damage is optional so koopalings can be tanooked
@@BlueTelevisionGames the tanook is not always a one stomp kill, it's not like a nuclear bomb and the koopalings still get damage and are interacted with so they are tanooked
@@BlueTelevisionGames Enjoyed the video though :)! I liked the effort that went into discovering the interactions with each enemy, including the ones that required timing.
This was a great video! I remember playing my NES, beating the game, and playing it on the "Hard Mode" with all of my collected Items. I did a bunch of the experiments you showcased, and found that Tanooki and Hammer Mario are the most "athletic" suits in the early games. Alternate ducking abilities, the cool ways to kill many enemies that only Invincibility Stars could, and the badass aesthetics of the suits make them absolute necessities.
@@BlueTelevisionGames I found your videos while I was going back to grad school and I have good memories with BTG games and going back and hanging out prior to the entire pandemic thing. So I'm forever associating you with going back to school and kicking ass. Thanks man, cannot wait for more content in the yeear!!!
Thank you for making this video! I wasn't sure if I could get past the Nippers in 6-5 this way, so I guess that saves me some trouble... shame it doesn't work though.
Wow, there's a lot of stuff I didn't know you could Tanooki stomp. I'm pretty surprised. Thwomps, Podobos, the disco ball lookin things, the lava flower spitting things, the rocket engine things.
There is always a heavier, bigger rock to crush the rock! I guess. Except the Tanuki is a smaller rock... okay yeah that doesn't make any sense at all.
Jelectros and Munchers are treated like blocks by the game rather than enemies/items, which is probably why it doesn't work on them. Super weird that it just passes through Ptooies like that, though. I wouldn't have expected that, considering it hits regular Piranha Plants and even Lava Lotuses.
This was a fun video. 😁 it was outside the box. Ive always wondered what a Tanooki suit was actually capable of. Then again, i could never keep a tanooki for longer than 1 level. Haha!
Hey Darby, long time no talk! I've been way too busy to watch much TH-cam the last few years, but I stumbled upon your channel today and saw this video. With SMB3 being my favorite Mario game, I just had to check it out. This was really cool! I definitely did not know quite a few of these, since the Tanooki suit is so rare. You should do a video like this with the hammer bros. suit, if you haven't already. Hope you're doing well man!
All of the Tanookable enemies have one major thing in common: they are all objects with sprites associated with them. You can't Tanook Jelectros or Munchers because these are part of the background layer and actually a special form of block. In fact if you somehow hit a Muncher from the side with your tail (not possible in the retail game without cheats but possible in some ROM hacks), it will turn into a dead block (like a spent ? block). Blooper Nanny, Fire Chomp, and Fire Snake are a different class of enemy: one with a "head" and a "tail" of smaller sprites. Only the head can be Tanook'd (or suffer any other kind of attack), even if some of the "tail" pieces can split off and do their own thing. Fun fact about Fire Chomp: if it runs out of flames from its tail, it will still chase Mario and eventually explode like a Bob-omb. Nerve-wracking stuff.
7:32 - Darby, but, if you were to jump into The Goomba Shoe while in Tanooki Suit Statue Form, you end up making Mario completely invincible, despite the fact, that, in Statue form, Mario, unfortunately, cannot travel through Warp Pipes while in the shoe.
Darby...damage counts as a hit from the tanooki statue, even if it has the same amount of DMG as a simple stomp, plus you still kill the koopal-lings in 3 hits, making them "Death by Tanooki stomp."
Jesus Christ. I forgot how many scary enemies there were in this game. The big fish, the walking, tiny flame, the ball that spits fireballs. When I was a kid, SMB3's Mario in his "leaf" form always reminded me of Super Saiyan 4 Goku due to it's animalistic appearances and the tail they both have hahaha
When I was young this was my second game next to super mario world anyway my godmum used to tell me the tanooki suit was bad cuz she didn't know how to use it When i found out how to use it i tried to teach her and she still doesn't know and won't use it
with the Tanooki statue you can stomp and kill the sparks of the explosion itself of a Bob-omb too if you hit the explosion from above on its "head" 😅😂
Geez, last time I played this game was when it was released on the 3DS Virtual Console... I think I need to dig that old thing out again, the nostalgia is real.
By request I have now made a video on Hammer Mario too. Find out what Hammer Mario can smash here: th-cam.com/video/q_AM0OvkKrs/w-d-xo.html
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@@miyaladyscorpio8996 ew
I will agree on the buzzle beetle
What I remember about the Tanooki Suit as a child is the pure frustration of obtaining such an OP item only to lose it permanently after getting hit by some random enemy within 20 seconds
Get good. XD
What about your comment was funny? How about you get good and we just post your credit card info?
I remember those times too but when I got more skill I was able to play with Tanooki many levels in row without loosing him. The sane situation is with Hammer suit, you just need enaough skill to enjoy such power :)
The absolute worst! Happened all the time!
@@YugiGold-cp4uv bro has never played smb 3
The biggest surprise for me was that underwater flower trap thing that spews those spiky seedling things. Had no idea you could Tanook those!
That one is pretty surprising
Yeah their hit box is inside their mouth, once they close you can't tanook it but once it open then it could be done.
@@Buildergoat325??
@@skins4thewin listen to when he says Venus fly trap
This was kinda like a mythbusters episode. I'd be neat to see the hammer bros suit too, since most people can't keep it for more than 1 stage lol.
U mean Hamer nose
@@maks2755
*crickets*
@@TheMattvf16 you mean cricket no's
Yeah, I can never hold onto the Hammer Bros suit. I wish there were more of them, it's my favorite power up.
@@ethervagabond Although not as criminally underused as the shoe, the hammer suit definitely is too rare and too powerful to actually use when you actually get one.
8:54 Actually you CAN Tanuki the Bowser lasers. You just have to attack the right place on them. If I remember correctly, the statue laser we see in your video is one you need to attack a bit higher up.
Aim for the middle
You can tanuki statue stomp flamethrowers as well, funnily enough
After all these years...
I never knew there was a purpose to tuning into the statue other than not being harmed by enemies.
Same! I have literally been playing this game since the day it came out in the US, and I never realized that turning into the statue midair lets you stomp previously unstompable enemies! My mind is so blown right now
@@craigrussell3062 it's funny but it kinda ticks me off. All that time and I never knew.
I thought it was just for fun being a statue.
5:50
Real
Putting out fires with the statue still makes me giggle like a 4 year old.
lol. :D
@@BlueTelevisionGames hi
Yea BTG Is right lol
@@BlueTelevisionGames this video is so good that i subscribed
@@BlueTelevisionGames how do u get tanooki in world 1 tanooki doesnt exist there and you can't replay levels
The video buffered RIGHT before Mario fell on top of Bowser. I’ve never seen a more fitting buffer.
A Tanooki Statue can slide down slopes and yet Hammer Mario can’t.
*I’m still processing that.*
Yah, pretty weird
Discovered that since i started playing. And till this day, i dont understand the reason why
Hope you enjoyed the video. This one took me forever to make...so if you did enjoy it be sure to hit the ole 👍. Thanks. You rock!
So uhh can you do what super cat mario from 3d world can stomp on please
GREAT such a good vid
Im hungry. I'm gonna go get some goomba jelly
I didn't expect for you to respond
YES
I would have laughed if you saved the Princess as a statue
That would be funny
Lol
Me too
Ya dat will be funny
Yeah but can stomp Peach with the statue
7:50 - As if hefting this guy around wasn't straining enough.
Love the video, though! I never could keep the Tanooki Suit for more than a single level, so it's awesome to see what things you can crush and what you can't.
Thanks Parabeetle X
(3:21) "It's dewishush"
~The goomba on the goomber's packaging 2020
Lmao
2021 hehehehhehe
That's how Elmer Fudd would say it
Where's that music came from? I like it darby!
@@varietychanyou knew it?
8:39 Wait. That's Illegal.
No it's not illegal
I’ve did the statue in mid air a few times, but I never knew that you can kill enemies by doing it. You learn something new every day….
YES! You can stomp on Koopalings! I wrote this in those 5 seconds!
wait...
Lol
Yes
@1 True Gamer wait.. i was wrong. They cannot be stompes
With the Tanooki suit, Mario can only stomp the enemies while the only thing I can stomp is dat like button under the video.
That's the best thing to stomp really
Blue Toad you forgot to say "mehah" ✌️😁
@@BlueTelevisionGames I hate toad voice
YES TEAM BLUE TOAD
No offence but TEAM YELLOW TOAD
Hard work and well edited was worth the wait. Nice Darby!
Thanks Retrospectre
Sigh
why am i so tempted to slide a statue down a hill after this video
Because it’s the funnest thing ever.
@@BlueTelevisionGames agreed.
You might get a curse from doing that.
@@Bombsbombsbombs yea i heard. Its called the stomp curse, its only a 50% chance you get it.
@@VTJ.N. with Pokémon knowledge, the curse will never hit
Wow, I've been playing this game for decades and never knew you could kill enemies with the tanooki statue!
"We're experiencing some technical difficulties, due to Darby making a horrible pun about Boomerang Bros. Please stand by until we get the issue resolved."
0:56 Boomerang Nos
2:25 Hammer Nos
And
4:25 Fire Nos
Nice tags!
@@BlueTelevisionGames hammer nos more like Ricky hammer LoL
@@guillermogazanol1729 your joke score is 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱
3:02 Racoon with 2 “C"s
Your point?
Raccoon has 2 C's.
This sounded so much like an ad for the Tanooki suit😁 Hilarious
06:46 no match for the dabadabadabadee
No match for the Tanook!
1:40 R.I.P radioactive waffle disco ball,you will never be forgotten
😆
R.I.P roto disc...
It got waffle-stomped.
0:38 Maybe the Microgoombas liked you... lol
I think so xD
6:46 Oh my gosh you finally got the message I've been trying to convey!
Lol
36 years later, and there are still instruction videos made for this game. It blows my mind 😮❤
I only ever used Tanooki to hide, I was today (33) years old when I learned this technique!
This video idea is surprisingly genius lol.
I never knew I wanted to watch a video about Mario stomping enemies as a statue as much as I did.
Thanks goose! 😁😁😁
We need to sto(m)p Tanooki Mario before he stomps the world!
Tanooki Mario: Mama-Meia!
I've never knew he could turn to stone with this suit.
Press down and B if i recall to turn into the statue, just in case you are curious on how to do it.
It's in the manual
@@JouvaMoufette some people didn't get the manual with the game or don't read it.
So you must not have played the game. Just wearing it you can turn to the statue by accident
😂😂
You can also fly with this suit, if I remember correctly.
1:59 is proof that the tandoori suit is over powered
1:23 When there’s a fire in your house
Hahaha
1:36 I always just called them "disco waffles"
I call them "vicious circles" after a lame riddle joke
Big Bertha is what Boss Bass is called underwater. Also, Boss Bass, and, by extension, Big Bertha, both CAN, in fact, be killed by Tanooki Mario in its Statue form, but, like the Thwomp and Lava Lotus, it has a unique hit box that has to be hit just right. You could probably do it easier via by using the Game Genie, Pro Action Replay, or Gameshark devices on a particular system, as well as enabling a permanent Tanooki Mario code.
I always thought Big Bertha and Boss Bass were separate characters, can you tell apart a male and a female fish?
2:46 technically you can tanook them, something is tanooked if it can be touch by the tanooki suit (if tanooki mario in statue form dosen't fall trough the enemy) and there is interaction like bouncing on it but damage is optional so koopalings can be tanooked
Fair enough. I’d probably consider a “tanook” a one stomp kill.
@@BlueTelevisionGames the tanook is not always a one stomp kill, it's not like a nuclear bomb and the koopalings still get damage and are interacted with so they are tanooked
The only thing I found surprising was how dewishush Goomber's Goomba Jelly is.
🤣
LOL I've played this game since a child and beat it some times and NEVER knew the Tanoki suit turned you into a statue. LMAO
This video: trying to just be intellectual and fun
Me, plotting my revenge on lava bubbles: *scribbling notes*
2:23 Death.
Oof
@@BlueTelevisionGames Enjoyed the video though :)! I liked the effort that went into discovering the interactions with each enemy, including the ones that required timing.
1:00 don't worry Darby, I laughed
I also did
Best part
Same
We all did
Don't worry guys i asked him, 3 years ago
3:18 Who’s been drawing Goomber’s?!
4:22 Son of a sun
Haha. My jokes are 🔥
☀️🔥☀️
@BlueTelevisionGames yes they are 🤣🤣
This was a great video! I remember playing my NES, beating the game, and playing it on the "Hard Mode" with all of my collected Items. I did a bunch of the experiments you showcased, and found that Tanooki and Hammer Mario are the most "athletic" suits in the early games. Alternate ducking abilities, the cool ways to kill many enemies that only Invincibility Stars could, and the badass aesthetics of the suits make them absolute necessities.
I love this video. Would love more similar videos in the coming year!
Thanks Scott
@@BlueTelevisionGames I found your videos while I was going back to grad school and I have good memories with BTG games and going back and hanging out prior to the entire pandemic thing. So I'm forever associating you with going back to school and kicking ass. Thanks man, cannot wait for more content in the yeear!!!
Thank you for making this video! I wasn't sure if I could get past the Nippers in 6-5 this way, so I guess that saves me some trouble... shame it doesn't work though.
Agreed
@@BlueTelevisionGames also, love the goomba jelly
Wow, there's a lot of stuff I didn't know you could Tanooki stomp. I'm pretty surprised. Thwomps, Podobos, the disco ball lookin things, the lava flower spitting things, the rocket engine things.
0:09
*We’ll*
*Be*
*Right*
*Back!*
haha
haha
to be continued moment
I was surprised that thwomps could be tanooked. I always thought they were like rocks that hurt mario and try to crush him.
There is always a heavier, bigger rock to crush the rock! I guess. Except the Tanuki is a smaller rock... okay yeah that doesn't make any sense at all.
4:25 firebros more like fire nooooo....
I love these parts!!
Greetings from brazil!
Jelectros and Munchers are treated like blocks by the game rather than enemies/items, which is probably why it doesn't work on them.
Super weird that it just passes through Ptooies like that, though. I wouldn't have expected that, considering it hits regular Piranha Plants and even Lava Lotuses.
That one surprised me too
He protecc...
He attacc...
But most importantly...
He tanook...
Tanook 4 life
#Tanook4Life
0:16 I thought he said something different 😂
“Pen*s flytrap”
???
What sounds like Venus?
@@iaxolotlquestionss PENI-
Fire crap
3:32 if this was in mario maker troll levels would be nothing xD
This was a fun video. 😁 it was outside the box. Ive always wondered what a Tanooki suit was actually capable of. Then again, i could never keep a tanooki for longer than 1 level. Haha!
3:39 Darby: I already know you can Tanook a thwohaaat?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
lol
3:41 whaaaaaaaaaaatttt
5:09 among us crewmates getting killed in front of mini crewmate be like
Hornstromp Games in a nutshell
3:17 bro took "I wonder what goombas taste like?" to a whole nother level💀
I was sad when he didn't say "Sledge Bros more like Sledge No's!"
His puns were amazing
@@LisaVGG I completely agree
@@uckyspindrill4114 I respect anyone who makes bad puns, cause I love them
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No
Have you tried donning a Kuribo's Shoe as a statue?
Hey Darby, long time no talk! I've been way too busy to watch much TH-cam the last few years, but I stumbled upon your channel today and saw this video. With SMB3 being my favorite Mario game, I just had to check it out. This was really cool! I definitely did not know quite a few of these, since the Tanooki suit is so rare. You should do a video like this with the hammer bros. suit, if you haven't already. Hope you're doing well man!
8:25 - @Sega America: We like your reference, Genesis Does What Nintendon’t.
The tanooki will destroy the world if we dont stop him first
Pretty sure Tanooki Mario can stomp the Earth in one hit.
That might be a problem...
@@platefullofspaghetti2865 but tanookie suits are very hard to find when your not a smb3 veteran
Desir Family i have been warned
@@BlueTelevisionGames so that’s why the tanooki suit Is never in Mario games anymore
All of the Tanookable enemies have one major thing in common: they are all objects with sprites associated with them. You can't Tanook Jelectros or Munchers because these are part of the background layer and actually a special form of block. In fact if you somehow hit a Muncher from the side with your tail (not possible in the retail game without cheats but possible in some ROM hacks), it will turn into a dead block (like a spent ? block).
Blooper Nanny, Fire Chomp, and Fire Snake are a different class of enemy: one with a "head" and a "tail" of smaller sprites. Only the head can be Tanook'd (or suffer any other kind of attack), even if some of the "tail" pieces can split off and do their own thing.
Fun fact about Fire Chomp: if it runs out of flames from its tail, it will still chase Mario and eventually explode like a Bob-omb. Nerve-wracking stuff.
The only thing I can't stomp is the dislike button...odd.
But I managed to stomp the like button! :D
Me Too!
Same
Same
@CCC Worker AUTTP super answer moment episode
YEET
Petition to rename Tom Nook to Ta Nooki
_signed_
Signed!
"WILL IT TANOOK?!?!" lmfao I love it
I love how you use “to tanook” as a verb.
After this please do a what can super cat mario stomp on
Could be fun
I mean that cat bell you get from space
Jameson Sims I picked the wrong comment
@@NewSoupWiiHii oh okay
7:32 - Darby, but, if you were to jump into The Goomba Shoe while in Tanooki Suit Statue Form, you end up making Mario completely invincible, despite the fact, that, in Statue form, Mario, unfortunately, cannot travel through Warp Pipes while in the shoe.
2:35 no, you cant
Me: *sees video title*
Also me: M E
Love this channel!! Very hard work editing!
I would say that the koopalings result to statue would be the same as boom boom.
You are correct
Darby...damage counts as a hit from the tanooki statue, even if it has the same amount of DMG as a simple stomp, plus you still kill the koopal-lings in 3 hits, making them "Death by Tanooki stomp."
Yes technically true. But the main point of this is what can you take out with a single tanooki stomp.
Jesus Christ. I forgot how many scary enemies there were in this game. The big fish, the walking, tiny flame, the ball that spits fireballs. When I was a kid, SMB3's Mario in his "leaf" form always reminded me of Super Saiyan 4 Goku due to it's animalistic appearances and the tail they both have hahaha
5:20 So sad...
It’s depressing
Remember some enemies the tanooki can't kill in the NES version you can kill in the later versions of the game, such as SNES All-stars version
What about the GBA advance 4 edition?
What surprised me is that the Tanooki Statue works on the Lava Lotus! Great video!
I'm racking my brain out to figure out what the song from 02:16 is from
EDIT: It came to me! Super Mario Kart from SNES!
Good job! Remix I made of that tune
@@BlueTelevisionGames For real? That's amazing!
Actually you did damage the koopaling.
The shell spinning means you damaged it.
I might be wrong
Yea it does damage
"Silence mortals! When the omnipotent god of all stone speaks, all must obey!"
- Tanuki Statue Mario, LowBrow
Lol
When I was young this was my second game next to super mario world anyway my godmum used to tell me the tanooki suit was bad cuz she didn't know how to use it
When i found out how to use it i tried to teach her and she still doesn't know and won't use it
That's a shame. The tanooki is so gooooooooood.
@@BlueTelevisionGames yessss
Can you do a video on the “Render96” and “the Odyssey Moveset” mod for Super Mario 64
The "Its dewishius" Part Caught Me off Guard
Lol. My bad 😆
5:57 IT'S SO FUNNY!
hahaha
What if when u completed the level as a statue, it carried onto the world map.
Wait would that mean you couldn’t move on the world map?
0:16 I THOUGHT YOU SAID (something that I can’t say) BUT YOU ACTUALLY SAID VENUS
Yes bc it looks like a. Venus fly trap? You got a problem?
2:40 You don't need to write a comment saying "No" you can just leave a like on mine :)
No
@@Mommavery or not :/
@@literallylegendary I’m not gunna because you’re begging for likes lol
_liked_
@@Mommavery makes sense :)
WHO is still watching this?
Me
Bowser: You dare use my own spells against me, Potter?
Can we just take a moment to acknowledge how amazing the physics that Nintendo pulled off in Mario 3? So way ahead of its time....
Agreed
I played Super Mario 3 A LOT in the 90s and the tanuki Mario statue was invincible...but I didn't know you could KILL enemies with it too!
with the Tanooki statue you can stomp and kill the sparks of the explosion itself of a Bob-omb too if you hit the explosion from above on its "head" 😅😂
Sweet
begin to realise how many enemies varieties actually on mario bros 3
Geez, last time I played this game was when it was released on the 3DS Virtual Console... I think I need to dig that old thing out again, the nostalgia is real.
This game is so good
I love this video! You are answering real questions people really are wondering the answer to!
List of things to not tanook
1. Microgoombas
2. Boos
3. Twisters
4. Angry sun
5. Boss bass
6. Jelectros
7. Stretch boos
8. Nipper plants
9. Munchers
10. Parabeetles
11. Ptooies
12. Candles
13. Bowser’s fireballs
14. Bowser