Super Mario Bros. 2 (FDS) Worlds 8 (Final) & 9 (Fantasy World)

First thing I want to tell you is that those grey walls in World 9-4 are not random shapes (if you don’t understand them), they’re katakana characters, the simplest form of Japanese writing which is divided in three parts: hiragana, katakana and kanji. The characters seen here are アリガトウ! (you might not see what I’ve just written if you don’t have the proper fonts intalled). The pronunciation and romanisation of these characters individually is a-ri-ga-to-u-! or simply arigatō!, meaning thank you! Now that t