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Mario Golf: Advance Tour contains eight unused "chicken rooms" which appear as eight identical dark voids, each of which contains a single chicken.
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There exists an official depiction of Christianity in the Mario universe. The 1987 officially licensed Super Mario Bros. sticker called "Prayer Power" features Peach using a cross to ward off a Hammer Bro.
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One of my relatives has suffered an accident and is severely injured. As a trained caretaker, I will spend my available time providing assistance. Please understand that this will prevent me from making regular posts on my sites in the coming days. I apologize for the disruption.
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Extremely rare 1993 "Cursed King of Pipe Land" plushie from Japan. In the Super Mario All-Stars version of SMB3, the king of Pipe Land is transformed into a Yoshi. As he is only seen for a few seconds, this is one of the most obscure characters receiving official merchandise.
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In the Super Mario Galaxy games, causing the camera to clip into a Chain Chomp reveals that while its body is not rendered when viewed from inside, its face is. This results in the Chain Chomp's face seemingly floating in space in the manner depicted.
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The reddest that Mario's shirt and hat have ever been was in Super Mario 64, where they were the hex color FF0000, the purest red representable on a screen. All Mario sprites and models before and after this used various less pure shades of red.
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New Super Mario Bros. contains code for a "Chain Cerberus", multiple Chain Chomps attached to the same post. Instead of being merely unused, the code is designated forbidden since the game deliberately executes a game-crashing function called OS_PANIC when it is loaded.
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An easily missed bit of worldbuilding in Super Mario Odyssey: in the Mushroom Kingdom, a Toad says Peach brought back hats from the moon. If the Toads are viewed through binoculars before finishing the story, they have no hats because Peach is not yet back from the moon.
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The Koopa Bros. from Paper Mario are a clear reference to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, however, in most versions it is limited to their visual design. The German version takes it further and gives them names that parody the TMNT: Citronello, Melanzano, Pomodoro and Asparago.
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In the Nintendo Switch version of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, the text that appears when Link obtains the Yoshi Doll (right) is different from the text in the original Game Boy version (left) and references how much time has passed between the versions.
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In Mario Party Advance, Dorrie has a unique sad expression that appears for only one frame if visited with anyone other than Yoshi. After complaining about being lonely, Dorrie will assume the expression right before the final letter in the word "friend" appears in the text box.
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Unused graphics found in the data of Super Princess Peach reveal that at some point in development, Goombas were able to experience positive emotions. In the finished game, Goombas are limited to experiencing only negative emotions instead.
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In Mario Superstar Baseball, every captain has four possible team names and logos: one default, one when most of the team members match the captain's type, and two special ones only used when the team includes four particular players. Below are all logos with their requirements.
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In Super Mario 64 DS, if Mario runs towards a certain tree outside Peach's Castle at a specific angle, he will clip through the floor. Sliding down will deposit Mario below the ground, from where he can swim out of bounds, and continue swimming in any direction forever.
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Photo of Boo mini marshmallows, shared by Nintendo of Japan's official LINE account in 2017. The marshmallows are flavored after calpis, a Japanese milk-based soft drink. Unfortunately, these were custom-made for internal use at Nintendo and are not available for purchase.
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Entering Snapshot Mode in Super Mario Odyssey while performing various moves shows that Mario's nose bounces in response to his movement. Falling from a great height (left) and bouncing off a trampoline (right) reveals the maximum extent of the deformation applied to the nose.
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Mario Party 8 stores graphics for text pop-ups as individual letters. The letters are displayed roughly in correct order in the files, but due to duplicate letters not being needed, the texture sheets appear to be misspelled versions of the actual messages. Examples below.
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Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story contains unused sprites of Mario being pressed into the shape of a key. Luigi would have needed to carry Mario on his head in this form, presumably to then insert him into a lock somewhere.
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Promotional photo for an officially licensed 2020 Boo stress ball.
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Goombas were added very late into the development of Super Mario Bros., and due to time constraints, the team decided to edit a previously drawn sprite rather than creating a new one from scratch for the enemy. The provided image details the process.
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Until now, it has been assumed that the "avoiding eye contact" render was the rarest version of the Mario Party Koopa Troopa artwork; however, an even rarer one was discovered in a German magazine. The renders, along with descriptions, are presented sorted by rarity in the image.
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According to the original 1985 design documents for Super Mario Bros., the first Goomba in World 1-1 was intended to start off on the blocks. According to Shigeru Miyamoto, this did not create a welcoming atmosphere, so the Goomba was moved to the ground to be easier to avoid.
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Development files for Super Mario World contain graphics for a scrapped, extremely small creature that appears to have been called "One-Character-kun", or "Mr. One Character", referring to it being the size of a single character of text (8x8 pixel tile).
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Previously, I have posted about the enigmatic "Stop Watch" character, an animate version of the Stop Watch item from Super Mario Bros. 2 that appeared in a few licensed works. Reader @RealSplatJam discovered that it likely originated from a misinterpretation of the game's manual.
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Extremely rare officially licensed 1992 Super Mario World Wiggler plush from Japan. This is the only plush of Wiggler that is based on his sprite, which has a round head, instead of his official artwork, which has prominent cheeks.
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