I'm pretty damned sure most game designers must have been on acid throughout the late eighties and early nineties.  Take Super Mario Bros., for example.  A plumber who shoots fireballs after eating magic mushrooms?  I eat mushrooms, and all that happens to me is a nice, warm sensation in my Santa-like belly.  Well, that, and bugs with Stephen Colbert's head start climbing out of my toilet.

Oooh!  Look!  A zebra striped elephant!

So for some reason I found myself in a set of levels where everything was super huge. At the end, I entered a giant glass of wine and got sucked down the drinking straw which promptly deposited me in to a dinosaur's mouth.

I enter the dinosaur's body, and eventually I end up swimming around his bloodstream, which takes me to a level called BLUE BALLS. Which turns out to be the boss.

It's a giant blue smiley face with a pringles moustache.

that is so pringles.

Fun fact (from wikipedia): Prior to 2002, psilocybin mushrooms were widely available in Japan and were often sold in mail-order shops, online vendors and in head shops throughout Japan; according to Hideo Eno of Japan's Health Ministry narcotics division, prior to 2002, "You can find them [psilocybin mushrooms] anywhere."  Use, production, trafficking, growing or possession of psilocybin mushrooms is now illegal in Japan.

When did the Japanese game industry start dropping off again?  I know we don't see nearly as much crazy shit out of them as we used to.  It's a damn shame.

But yea, Super Bonk is great, that and Bonk's Revenge are my fav Bonk games, but I think Super Bonk is the best one.

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@Diamond said:

" Fun fact (from wikipedia): Prior to 2002, psilocybin mushrooms were widely available in Japan and were often sold in mail-order shops, online vendors and in head shops throughout Japan; according to Hideo Eno of Japan's Health Ministry narcotics division, prior to 2002, "You can find them [psilocybin mushrooms] anywhere."  Use, production, trafficking, growing or possession of psilocybin mushrooms is now illegal in Japan.When did the Japanese game industry start dropping off again?  I know we don't see nearly as much crazy shit out of them as we used to.  It's a damn shame.But yea, Super Bonk is great, that and Bonk's Revenge are my fav Bonk games, but I think Super Bonk is the best one. "

Then no wonder we have games focusing on cliche heroes wearing super suits, carrying futuristic weapons, and them being used on a powerful alien force ready to unleash their brink of destruction upon humanity.We need moar weeeeeeeeeed (or mushrooms. Or drugs. Or other shit.) "