#mekabon

Name: Mekabon (again)

Debut: Super Mario Land

Remember Mekabon? I remember Mekabon! It’s ok if you don’t, and you know you can be honest with me. In truth, I don’t remember Mekabon as often as I’d like to admit! I’d like to remind you about Mekabon, if that’s okay. And I checked, it is okay. Don’t worry.

Mekabon is what we in the business call a Funny Robot. If a robot makes me smile, it is a Funny Robot. What an unconventional type of enemy for Mario to jump upon! This is something that nowadays would be a friendly NPC, but in 1989, anything was possible. 

What is Mekabon’s deal? What’s Mekabon all about? If you asked Mekabon, it would probably say “The name of the game is ‘using my detachable head as a boomerang’”, and that would be incredibly accurate! Mekabon uses its detachable head as a boomerang. Mario can jump on the detached head and body for 100 points each, but if he jumps on the entire Mekabon, he will get 400 points! Awesome! Don’t you just love racking up Points in Mario games? Getting that Score up in a Mario game? Ya-hoo!

I’ve said this before, and I’ve said this again. I love Mekabon’s funny arms! These are arms just for the sake of being arms. No hands here! Just arms. As Mod Sockop has pointed out, Mekabon is the opposite of a modern Kirby character! Don’t underestimate it, though. Mekabon can most certainly poke and prod like nobody’s business.

The newest residents of the Muda Kingdom are the Mekabons (sometimes spelt Mekapon), bizarre alien robots that seem to have arrived around the same time as Tatanga. They don’t appear to be under his control, however - they don’t even seem to have control over themselves, as their heads will occasionally depart their bodies for a brief adventure.

Mekabon (Super Mario Land)

Name: Mekabon

Debut: Super Mario Land

Mekabon is a robot that appears only in stage 2-2 of Super Mario Land. Stage 2 is the Muda Kingdom, an... ocean themed world populated mostly by seahorses. But then there’s this robot that can detach its head an launch it like a boomerang.

Not that I’m complaining. Mekabon is a wonderful robot. Those bulging, frog-like eyes! Those useless, nubby arms that don’t even end in hands! The fact that its head functions as a boomerang in the first place! Such a robot is always a welcome sight.

Mekabon, the head throwing master robot from the Gameboy game Super Mario Land. Another entry to a Super Mario Collab.