Noah Buttner is a staff writer at Dualshockers. He specializes in textual and visual analysis and is based in New York, where he recently obtained a degree in Journalism from Stony Brook University.

A producer for Super Mario Odyssey answers this and other burning Nintendo questions like: How can Mario have nipples but no belly button? Patrick Holland has been a phone reviewer for CNET since 2016 ...

The question of whether longtime Mario sidekick Toad’s head is a mushroom, or if he’s wearing a mushroom hat, has been pervasive over the years. Debates have raged online, independent scientific ...

For all of the fantastical elements in the Super Mario Bros. games, it’s the nature of Toad’s head that sparked questions from fans. Is the character’s mushroom top his head or a hat? Video games and ...

Nintendo knows how to keep secrets and use them interestingly to tease gamers about upcoming games or products. Now, the company prepared answers instead. Mario is undoubtedly the most iconic video ...

Nintendo has come out and answered some important questions regarding two big topics in the Mario lore concerning Mario's nipples and belly button, as well as Toad's head. The 'canon' of Mario is ...

Super Mario Odyssey producer Yoshiaki Koizumi in a new developer talk video has revealed that what some people thought was a hat on Toad's head is actually Toad's head. "So that, as it turns out is ...

The Super Mario universe is full of mysteries, like why Mario and Donkey Kong are friends now, whether or not their names are really Mario Mario and Luigi Mario, and why some of the characters from ...