1001
In Super Mario World, one of the corners of the wall at the beginning of Chocolate Island 4 kills Mario on contact. This is the only location in the game where this occurs.
1002
Normally, getting hit while on Yoshi in Super Mario World will not harm Mario. However, there are three very specific exceptions: a Dino Torch's flames (not the Dino Torch itself), a Mega Mole on flat ground (not on slopes), and eating a Wiggler at high speed (safe at low speed).
1003
Mario Party contains unused graphics depicting a robot minting coins from sheets of gold. In the entire Mario franchise, the process of coin manufacturing is never depicted; this was possibly cut due to an internal guideline stating that coins should be kept magical in nature.
1004
In Super Mario Advance 2, if Mario has 999 lives and exits a level as Yoshi is swallowing a 1-Up Mushroom on the first frame the "1-Up" text appears (left), upon returning to the map screen, Mario will have "Y00" lives (right). This resets back to 999 when entering a level.
1005
In the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros., the "Bowser defeated" scene can be played at any time by setting a single byte of memory. However, manually playing it outside of castle levels only prints half of the message, reading
"THANK YO
BUT OUR PRI
ANOTHER CAS".
1006
In Paper Mario: The Origami King, Bowser Jr. can actually briefly join Mario in battle. Mario must say "no" when he offers to give him a lift, then enter a battle in Shangri-Spa. Despite being completely skippable, Bowser Jr. is tied for the strongest companion alongside Bowser.
1007
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the Shadow Queen's default form is only seen in cutscenes, where her body is bent and at an angle to the camera (left). By extracting her textures from the game, we can see what her body would look like if she was standing upright (right).
1008
In Super Mario 64 DS, performing a Slide Kick on the Cool, Cool Mountain slide and falling off the edge will seemingly cause Mario to disappear, but actually warp him high into the air instead. Mario will float in mid-air in that pose until A is pressed, whereupon he will die.
1009
The Nintendo World Championships 1990 were conducted using a custom NES cartridge containing minigames based on, among others, Super Mario Bros. This is one of the few known surviving cartridges that was recently auctioned; due to their rarity, they are valued at over $5000 each.
1010
The long Fire Bars in Super Mario Bros. have a blind spot directly to their sides where they will not hurt Mario. Almost all of them are placed so that Mario can not stand in that spot, except for this Fire Bar at the end of Level 8-4 in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.
1011
Photos from a 1995 Yoshi's Island launch event fundraiser in Culver City, California where school principals could sit with Mario and Yoshi on top of a giant egg in exchange for Nintendo donating $500 to their school. Details in image.
1012
Shigeru Miyamoto blowing out the candles on a cake celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Super Mario Bros. in 1995. A close-up of the cake is provided.
1013
Mainline Mario platformers have a history of obstacles based on mines being designed for the games, but ultimately going unused.
1014
Promotional photos from the 1993 "Navidad de Nintendo" event, where Mario visited and played with sick children in hospitals across Spain.
1015
In Super Mario World, the Switch Palace/Bonus Room music always includes the Yoshi drum track, even when Yoshi himself is not present. Below is a comparison between the used version and a hypothetical "Yoshi-less" version of this music with the Yoshi drum sound channel disabled.
1016
In Luigi's Mansion, if Luigi is interrupted while picking up an item by a call from E. Gadd, instead of turning around, he will morph between his picking-up animation (left) and the call answering animation (right) by turning inside-out.
1017
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, the Starshroom appears near Starship Mario after reaching Spin-Dig Galaxy. However, even before that, one of the Toad Brigade members is already present: Banktoad can be seen floating in mid-air above Starship Mario from the beginning of the game.
1018
In Virtual Boy Wario Land, the levels are connected via an elevator. If at the start of a level, the player immediately goes back down to a previous level, then up, then down, then back up, Wario will give the camera a disturbed look, as though questioning the player's actions.
1019
In Super Mario Sunshine, Yoshi dissolves when he enters water. In the last few frames before this, his model undergoes severe deformation whereby he curls up and his head and hands become larger. After the hands have grown to roughly half of Yoshi's size, he disintegrates.
1020
The music track playing in the bramble levels in Donkey Kong Country 2 is called "Stickerbush Symphony". However, during the late 2000s, the misspelling "Stickerbrush Symphony" with an extra R has taken hold among the audience and is now more widespread than the correct spelling.
1021
Development data for Super Mario 64 contains an early version of MIPS the rabbit, which was colored pink. Unlike the finished game's MIPS, this version had the uncanny-looking ability to turn its head backwards 180 degrees, similar to an owl, to see Mario approaching from behind.
1022
In the fourth mission of Pinna Park in Super Mario Sunshine, there is a single banana bunch floating extremely high above the beach. The image on the right shows the distance (skybox disabled for clearer view; the yellow dot near the top is the banana bunch).
1023
Princess Toadstool design from an early Super Mario Bros. manga predating the wide adoption of her current design; based roughly off of her Super Mario Bros. sprite (left).
1024
During battles in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, audience members sometimes throw items at Mario. Most of these are random, but one is very specific: if Mario fails a hammer attack, the Hammer Bros. in the audience will show their disdain by throwing their hammers at him.
1025
In The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, screen-warping glitches can take the player to this room, unreachable by normal means, containing a Yoshi Doll. Picking up the doll displays the text "I don't suppose it would do any good to beg? If you change your mind, tell me."
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