Bosses Day 2014

Today is Bosses Day (people celebrate that?) and since we featured Super Mario Bros. as our #tbt this week, it felt appropriate to showcase the original boss of living room temper tantrums, King Koopa!

Image from Piq

For those too young to know, King Koopa was later renamed Bowser in later Mario games.  King Koopa, as his name suggested, was the King of the Koopas.  He appeared in several castles, but almost always as an underling disguised as him.  He is impervious to all of the bros. attacks, save for Fire Flower fireballs.  His attacks include jumping on top of you with his very large scaly body and firing projectile flames.  If you did not have a Fire Flower upgrade, the only way to defeat him was to make it behind him and destroy the bridge you were fighting on with the Golden Axe, which in hindsight, was probably a terrible place to keep that.  Doing so would force King Koopa, real or imposter, to fall into the lake of lava beneath you and allow you to save the fungus man/princess of your dreams!