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Illustration from a 2017 print ad for an Ecuadorian dental care company. Mario and Peach symbolize teeth, and Broccoli Bowser represents bits of food stuck between them.
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If the Mario figure from the Super Mario 64 Question Mark Block LEGO set (left) is lost, it cannot be replaced with the included spare parts; however, they can be used to create a "capless Mario" (right), which may be a reference to how Mario can lose his cap in Super Mario 64.
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Each microgame in WarioWare: Get It Together gives a numerical ranking from 1 (worst) to 5 (best) to each character's ability in it. By averaging their rankings in all 222 microgames, the characters can be sorted objectively by overall performance, with the rankings shown below.
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Waluigi-themed Valentine's Day card downloadable from Nintendo of America's official site in 2019.
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The Japanese official guide for the puzzle game "Yoshi" for the NES/Famicom contains a joke segment that talks about how Yoshis look different in various countries. It gives examples of Indian Yoshis (left), American Yoshis (middle) and Japanese Yoshis (right).
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Mario Kart Tour's low-polygon models, used for racers far away from the camera, have the lowest-resolution facial textures of all 3D Mario games to date, at 10x10 pixels.
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The Chinese version of New Super Mario Bros. Wii has an anti-piracy feature where if an illegal copy is detected, the game will run normally, but all level graphics will be replaced with complete darkness, leaving only the HUD. It is still possible to beat the game in this state.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, the Metro Kingdom is filled with NPCs that are only visible from far away, but dissolve and finally unload when he gets closer to conserve resources. Sometimes they are grouped with regular NPCs, resulting in scenarios like the one in the image below.
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The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book reveals that early concepts for New Donkers were centered around Mario's sense of alienation in the big city. To convey this, the designs were made uncanny such as the people being transparent or missing their faces partially or completely.
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To commemorate today's closing of the Wii Shop Channel after 12 years of operation, here is the only time the channel was referenced inside a Mario game: in Super Paper Mario, the Wii Shop Channel loading icon briefly appears in Fracktail's eye during a cutscene.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, the Goomba Picture Match game contains an Easter egg whereby if Mario's eyes and a mustache are put on the Goomba, Toad will remark that it looks like Mario is capturing it. However, despite Toad remarking how "fun" this is, doing this will lose the game.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, whenever Mario opens the closet found inside the Odyssey, there is one frame where the model of Mario used to preview costumes is displayed outside the change menu, resulting in two Marios in the scene. During this frame, the mirror reflects only darkness.
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During the battle against Roy in Paper Mario: Color Splash, Mario enters six unique states whenever he is covered with paint. By extracting the sprites, we can see them without the paint cover, revealing normally unseen details such as Mario blushing when he feels self-conscious.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, there is a giant piece of meat that Mario can capture in the Luncheon Kingdom. The game never explains what animal it comes from; however, the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book answers this question: the meat belongs to a T-Rex.
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In Super Mario Galaxy, Ice Mario/Luigi can normally only create ice platforms on water, but there is one spot where they can also do it on lava. Instead of adding extra code to this lava, the developers used a simple trick where it is encased in invisible boxes of water instead.
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Development screenshots from the earliest build of Super Mario 3D Land in March 2010. At this stage, the landscape consisted entirely out of blocks, and Mario was represented by an extremely crude model that moved by sliding along the ground.
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Behind-the-scenes photo of the Peach mascot costume used in the Australian commercial for Mario Party 4 being fitted during its design phase.
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Yoshi's Story contains a secret message spanning every level of the game: "YOU ARE YOSHI'S GREAT PARTNER". I have published the first comprehensive and illustrated guide on how to see all the hidden letters of the message on the Supper Mario Broth Patreon: patreon.com/posts/23582692
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Promotional photo of Shigeru Miyamoto with a Mario plush, taken for a 1995 interview with the British Super Play magazine, isolated from the magazine layout.
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Mario toy dressed in a custom-knitted Goomba sweater, used as a decoration at the Nintendo booth at Gamescom 2015 in Cologne, Germany.
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In January, I restored the presumed lost Big Yoshi art from Super Mario RPG (left). Now, a full official version has finally been found.
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The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book reveals that the reason Cappy's eyes are red is because originally, his irises were intended to make the shape of the "M" emblem of Mario's hat whenever he smiled (left). In the finished game, this concept was discarded (right).
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The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book contains large amounts of sketches for most characters in the game, with artwork for certain characters numbering in the hundreds. Despite this, the book contains only a single drawing of Toadette, which is shown below.
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Doors of Doom is a completely luck-based minigame in Mario Party 4 that is home to some of the most absurdly low probabilities in a Mario game. The chance of getting the highest possible score is less than 1 in 1 billion, or 0.00000009%. Details in image.
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Before the final battle in Super Mario Odyssey, Bowser has various reactions to Mario based on the outfit he is wearing. One of them is the "scared" reaction, which he has to the six outfits shown below. This suggests that each of them contains some aspect Bowser is scared of.
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