All you need is a Mushroom

I’ve done it again. Different track, different circumstances, but the timing was just as impeccable.

Last time I dodged a Blue Shell it was pure chance. I hit the boost pad and took flight over the river that meanders through DK’s Jungle Raceway at the very moment that the Blue Shell attempted it’s kamikaze swan dive.

This time was different. Let me strap you in behind the wheel for a drivers-eye view of what happened… Comfortable? Good. Here we go...

You’re in first place on the final lap of a 150cc GP race at Mushroom Gorge. You’ve controlled the race, from the front, since the green light and have just bounced and tricked your way over the mushrooms in the cave one last time. You hit the track and mini turbo perfectly towards the final turn. Victory is about to be yours.

Then you hear it. It’s coming again. A Blue Shell.

All your hard work is going to be undone because the chasing pack are not very far behind. But wait, you have one last chance. You exit the hair-pin onto the long straight. The finish line is in sight but the Blue Shell is closing fast. In the top right of your screen is your chance. You have a Mushroom. You wait as long as you dare and then, keeping the kart as straight as you can, you hit the d-pad and turbo toward the finish line. But the line is too far away! The turbo boost expires and your kart slows down. But where’s the Blue Shell? It missed? No? You dodged it! Yay!! You timed the Mushroom so perfectly that at the instant before impact you boosted out of its destructive clutches.

Take that evil Blue Shell!

“All you need is love” said the Beatles. “All you need is a Mushroom” said Gameov3r, from his FORUM. All I need is some sleep! Oh, did anyone tell you that GTA IV is out?