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A 1996 Super Mario 64 manga suggests that 1-Up Mushrooms grow from the bodies of dead Marios, perpetuating the cycle of life and death.
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According to a 2017 study by a team of Canadian neuropsychologists, playing Super Mario 64 increases grey matter in the brains of older adults, potentially being able to combat dementia and other neurological disorders.
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An extremely detailed 2018 Waluigi render shows that the "Γ" emblem on his hat is a sticker, as a corner is peeling off. This suggests that unlike Mario, Luigi and Wario, who have tailored caps, Waluigi was only able to afford a cap with a blank emblem that he customized himself.
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Super Mario Galaxy contains zones called "NoSleepAreas", placed wherever it would be inappropriate for Mario to fall asleep when idling, such as in boss battles. However, no such zone exists in front of Luigi's prison, allowing Mario to sleep while Luigi is pleading him for help.
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In 1994, Nintendo made a public event at a Dutch airport where 10,000 counterfeit Game Boy games they confiscated in the Netherlands were ran over by a steamroller, to send a message to counterfeiters. An actor in a Mario costume was overseeing the operation.
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A quiz from an officially licensed 2002 Burger King/Nintendo activity book reveals that Donkey Kong was born in the UK.
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This particular shot from the Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer may be a reference to a similar shot from the ending of Super Mario Galaxy.
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1993 Super Mario Bros. movie concept art for Toad.
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Due to being a repackaging of a SNES game on a Wii disc, the 2010 Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition has a staggering amount of unused disc space. The game uses only ca. 12 megabytes of a 4.7 gigabyte disc, leaving 99.7% of it unused.
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2018 unauthorized inspirational Luigi pillow from China.
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In light of the recent news that the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are being postponed until 2021, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 now has the unique distinction of being based on an alternate version of a real-life event that will not happen in the form depicted in the game.
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To promote the launch of Donkey Kong Country Returns in 2010, Nintendo Australia set up a life-size recreation of Donkey Kong's Banana Hoard in a harbor in Sydney.
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In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, after Peach pulls out Toad during her neutral special move, Toad will shrink to an extremely small size before unloading. Here is a closer view at Toad at the end of the attack, visible in Peach's palm.
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The Chinese version of New Super Mario Bros. Wii replaces the character icons with high-definition textures. For an unknown reason, the texture for Luigi's icon is squished and the game runs special unsquishing code at runtime to make it display properly on-screen.
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Out of the recurring female human characters in the Mario series, only Daisy regularly has teeth. This affects both official art and in-game models; in the vast majority of cases, Peach, Rosalina and Pauline simply have no teeth modeled inside their mouths.
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Human DNA has an information storage capacity that very neatly fits the size of a GameCube game. Thus, it would be possible with gene editing technology to store a copy of e.g. Super Mario Sunshine inside the human genome. Details in image.
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There exists one piece of in-game evidence in favor of the widespread Internet joke that Yoshi does not pay his taxes: in Fortune Street, Yoshi is the only one out of 26 characters that requests to be exempt from paying taxes when the player builds a new tax office.
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Despite looking much more detailed, the model for the coins in Super Mario Odyssey is actually 65% simpler than the one used in Super Mario Galaxy, due to taking advantage of modern rendering techniques. Details in image.
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Huey's model in Paper Mario: Color Splash is immensely smooth, resulting in an extremely high number of polygons. In fact, it takes more processing power to display Huey than it would take to render the entirety of Super Mario 64, all at once.
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In Super Mario 64, there is a specific spot near the top of Tall, Tall Mountain where failing to grab a ledge will result in Mario comically falling down the entirety of the mountain while hitting every ledge on the way down.
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Photo of an incident during the 2002 recording of the North American commercial for Mario Party 4, where the actor playing Yoshi fell into the pool and needed to be rescued while still inside the mascot suit. Accoring to the costume company, the performer had almost drowned.
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I have recently received inquiries about my personal collection of Mario merchandise. Below is a photo of all Mario merchandise I own. It is a single officially licensed 2011 keychain of a Wallop enemy from Super Mario 3D Land, which is of great sentimental value to me.
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In Super Mario Galaxy 2, Peach periodically sends letters to Mario. Each of these has its own text, but that text actually overwrites preexisting nonsense text included in the letter's internal layout file. Here is what the letters look like if the placeholder text is left in.
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Out of all mainline Mario games, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy rely most heavily on pre-rendered cutscenes, to the point that the data of both games is comprised mostly out of movie files. The data for all of the actual gameplay takes up a fraction of that space.
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Normally, hitting characters with Star Bits in Super Mario Galaxy will briefly disorient them, after which they quickly return to normal. However, hitting Banktoad in the purple coin mission of Dusty Dune Galaxy will instead make him sad indefinitely, never recovering.
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