My top 5 favorite power-ups and items in video games.

#2

Blue Koopa Shell

While the regular Koopa Shell is a pretty great item,
nothing beats the BLUE Koppa Shell (except for item #1 on this list).

The blue shell has several appearances,
some in different forms...

In the Mario Kart series, it is a destructive blue shell
also known as the"Spiny Shell,"
which flies off and explodes on the person in 1st place.




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In Mario Strikers Charged there is an item called a Freeze Shell.
It's technacly not part of the other blue shells,
but it IS a Koopa SHELL that has a BLUE(ish) color.
It can freeze your enemy solid when it hits him/her.




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In New. Super Mario Bros.(DS) the blue shellis actually a power-up
which can be used to protect Mario/Luigi when they hide in it,
or they can use it to slide across the level and knock off all enemies in the way
(as if they where a koopa shell themselves)




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The blue shell is also found in Mario & Luigi RPG 3 (Bowser's Inside Story)
It combines with Mario & Luigi's hammers.
Luigi hammers Mario and then Mario flies off a little
and comes back to Luigi like a boomerang.
It's used to hit blocks/switches that are on far off ledges.


"Mario & Luigi standing next to a blue shell block"


"Mario wearing the blue shell"


"Mario flung off the ledge"
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My favorite appearance of the blue shell is in Super Mario World,
where you can have Yoshi hold it in his mouth and he will grow wings!


"Luigi standing next to a blue shell in Super Mario World"


"Luigi riding a Yoshi with a blue shell in his mouth"
In case you were wondering Blue Yoshi is also my favorite Yoshi.
Because he can fly with ANY shell. Just wanted to point that out.

The blue shell is epic, but like I said before, it's not as epic as item #1 on this list...

Today I found my Super Mario Advance 2 A.K.A. Super Mario World GBA game.
It still works!
And my save file didn't even get erased
(unlike some of my other gameboy games).
Thatis good news because I had beatan the game 100%,
with a maxed out life counter too (x999),
and I don't want all my hard work to go away.