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Both Mario and Luigi have had models where their legs have been adjusted to the other brother's length. From left to right: regular Mario, Luigi-legged Mario (unused model in Luigi's Mansion data), Mario-legged Luigi (playable Luigi from Super Mario Galaxy), regular Luigi.
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In Super Mario Galaxy 2, Mario's speed is very slightly, nearly imperceptibly, dependent on whether he is moving parallel or perpendicular to the camera. Jumping parallel to the camera makes him achieve 3.88% higher speed.
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In Super Mario Galaxy, sometimes two Bomps will be on opposite sides of a wall. This is actually the same Bomp; all Bomps in the game have two faces, one on each end. For the vast majority of the game's Bomps, the second face is stuck inside the wall and never sees the outside.
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Shigeru Miyamoto with his personal collection of Mario memorabilia in 1995. I had previously posted a black-and-white version of this photo in 2018, however, this higher-resolution color version of it has recently surfaced.
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In the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book, just like in the game, Mario does not talk. The only instance of Mario saying something using a speech bubble is "This-a place is-a weird!" in artwork depicting New Donk City inhabitants being frightened by his appearance.
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Message found in the files of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions. It is unknown whether this was intended solely for debugging or testing or whether some manner of error exists that would cause this to appear during regular gameplay.
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This drawing from an ad for the Mario Bros. Game & Watch is the earliest publicly released depiction of Luigi, as it predates the Game & Watch, which in turn predates his official debut in the Mario Bros. arcade. Unfortunately, it is impossible to tell which of the men is Luigi.
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In the Mario Kart series, Kamek was nearly playable twice, but was removed both times. In Mario Kart 64, he was dropped in favor of Donkey Kong close to release (left); in Mario Kart 8, he is the only driver whose emblem is found in the code, but who is not in the game (right).
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All known artwork of the extremely rare "Stop Watch" character, an animate version of the Stop Watch item designed by Nintendo of America for Super Mario Bros. 2. It only appeared in concept art, on greeting cards, and in one issue of the Valiant Mario comic.
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Unused Yoshi colors found in the data of Super Mario Sunshine. While the greyish-blue and greyish-purple Yoshis spit water like the temporary green Yoshi state that all Yoshis turn into when they run out of juice, the grey Yoshi on the right spits a unique brown liquid.
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In the files of Super Mario Sunshine, an unused enemy named Dorokuri exists, which can steal Mario's hat like a Swipin' Stu. Unlike Swipin' Stus, however, Dorokuris can steal Mario's hat from each other, whereupon they will fly off at extreme speeds.
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The North American manual for Super Mario Bros. made extensive use of the words "kill" and "die" (highlighted in image). All later Mario games and manuals mostly replaced "kill" with "defeat" or "destroy" and "die" with "lose a life", making this manual unique in this aspect.
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During normal gameplay, the sign above Mario's house in Paper Mario reads "Mario". During the credits, this changes to "Mario's"; however, the texture is cut off; extracting it from the data shows the full texture reads "Mario's L". It is unclear what the L could stand for.
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According to review aggregator site Metacritic, Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast is the worst game in the greater Mario franchise, being the only game out of all of its subfranchises to have a score lower than 50 and "generally unfavorable reviews".
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In the E3 2019 Nintendo Treehouse gameplay of Luigi's Mansion 3, it was shown that the game's goal is to collect elevator buttons, one for each floor of the hotel. For a few frames in the game's trailer, the elevator panel is visible, revealing that the game will have 17 levels.
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Follow-up to the previous post: while it appears that the Super Mario Knife is indeed extremely rare, it has been confirmed that it was available for purchase in Japan. Below is a photo of the item. Thank you very much to readers @msoyu62k22 and @mamako0326 for the information!
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In 2010, Shinjuku Station in Tokyo, the world's busiest railway station, used Mario clock displays as part of a Nintendo ad campaign (left). Mario's eyes would sometimes dart back and forth every second (middle). After every full minute, Mario's nose would enlarge (right).
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In Super Mario Odyssey, if Mario flies above Glydon using a Gushen, then uncaptures it so that the Gushen hits Glydon on the head, Glydon will become glitched and begin to extremely slowly ascend into the air. He will continue ascending at this pace forever.
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Promotional photo of Charles Martinet next to a cardboard cutout of official Mario artwork for Super Smash Bros. Melee, from the UK Nintendo Official Magazine.
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Illustration of a "hip", presumably teenage Mario from a 1993 article on games featuring teenage protagonists in the German Video Games magazine.
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Normally, the items in the Present Room in Mario Party 4 have properly written descriptions. However, the Party Star trophy, obtained by 100%ing the game, has only uncapitalized placeholder text. This is likely due to it being so hard to obtain it was overlooked during testing.
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The title screen for Super Mario Advance has darkened edges (left). The lit area in the middle is 160x144 pixels, exactly the resolution of the original Game Boy (insert on right). As a Game Boy Advance launch title, this effect was meant to illustrate the increase in resolution.
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In Mario Kart Wii, Wario's Gold Mine contains a texture that appears to be completely blank. Concealed within is a Mii head that may or may not be faceless. An analysis and mockups of what the Mii may have looked like are provided.
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At the 1994 European Computer Trade Show, Silicon Graphics presented "Project Reality", hardware that would later be used inside the Nintendo 64. One of the demos shown was a first-person perspective walk through a realistic town populated with cutouts of Nintendo characters.
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Before Mario's "It's-a me, Mario" catchphrase was standardized, various publications attempted to invent their own mottos for him.
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