Super Mario Bros. is trending once more social media for a secret that had been kept for several years. did you ever wonder how many coins might you get by hitting a block? Surprisingly, this mystery was solved by a speedrunner.
As is well known, one of the main mechanics of this video game that has the plumber as the protagonist is that of hitting ‘brick’ blocks with question mark in the middle whenever we have the opportunity to do so. However, this element of Super Mario Bros. kept a great secret that has been a topic of conversation among gamers for several decades.
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By hitting these objects we might receive coins or some type of fungus that gave him an ability or Mario Bros or, failing that, increased its size. However, what regarding the blocks that only awarded coins? Well, there was a limit, and for a long time it was believed that only 10 of these might be obtained.
Fortunately, the renowned speedrunner known as Kosmic uploaded a video to his YouTube channel where he reveals that the true number of coins inside this object is 16, and not 10 as was believed for many years.
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However, this will not be an easy task for any gamer, since you need to have very fast fingers and wait for the right moment to get that amount.
So you can get 16 coins from the blocks in Super Mario Bros.
In this way, it is shown that Super Mario Bros. continues to be a retro game that awaits many secrets and mysteries that will always make people talk and will never cease to surprise us.
