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Being a child of the 80's, I owe a certain amount of my development to the media that surrounded me throughout those formative years. I did it all - books, music, movies, TV - the occasional MAD magazine, if my parents were feeling nutty.

But much like the youth of today, I succumbed easiest to video games. Those addicting little pixels, the far-out worlds you could explore that the real world just couldn't stack up with...

I especially liked those comically overweight plumbers, the Mario brothers. What a world! The weird flying turtles, lumbering toadstools of death...

...the consumptions of seemingly innocuous mushrooms that just so happened to make you taller and let you punch bricks with your bare hands.

Hmm - I mean really - what kind of drugs were the developers of these things on?

On second thought, don't answer that. I'm pretty sure it's pretty self explanatory...

Yet, like Mickey Mouse, Alfred E. Newman and other media icons, the Marios have pipe-snaked their way into my heart and the hearts of those around me.

Mario this...Mario that...you see it all over the place, from boxer shorts to posters!

But you've never seen anything like this before...

It's the Mushroom Touch lamp!

Just toss in a few batteries and you've got the ultimate-cool desk accessory for any fan of the famous video game, fungus or hallucinogenic drugs!

Makes a great nightlight! Put one on grandma's night stand and watch the fun ensue!

All you need to do is push down on the top and it glows! Get one for the kids, the family chef or the biggest nerd you know*!

And the best part is that they're only 99¢!!

Yep. 99¢!!!

What a deal!!

Under a buck for the coolest, cutest little bit of glowing fungus you ever did see!? Hurry up and hit "Deal Me One" before they all go away!

*Which is probably me, unfortunately.