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The 2008 official Prima guide for Spore includes a collection of sample creatures, one of them being "Sloshi", a design referencing Yoshi. This is expounded further in the second half of the paragraph on the left, which contains more Mario franchise references.
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A Mario reference was made in episode 270 of the Doctor Who TV series, where the Doctor describes a situation with "it's like Super Mario figuring out what's going on, deleting himself from the game because he's sick of dying."
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The data of Luigi's Mansion contains a test map which includes a variety of objects, among them Luigi's arm used in cutscenes and a crownless King Boo (left). Luigi's cutscene arm is much larger than his regular arms, which can be seen by positioning Luigi next to it (right).
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The data of Super Mario Strikers contains unused models showing early, more varied designs of characters' uniforms before they were standardized for the final game. The models are in different states of completion, with some being posed and some, like Luigi, showing expressions.
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The fourth boss of Super Mario Land, Biokinton, has a very simple design, appearing as a cloud with dot eyes (left). However, the Super Mario Land manga depicts Biokinton as being much more menacing (right).
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Normally, Boos in Super Mario 64 move around in a slow and continuous manner. However, this particular Boo in Big Boo's Haunt has the ability to instantly teleport behind Mario on rare occasions. Below are two consecutive frames of gameplay.
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At the beginning of the Tracker Barrel Trek level in Donkey Kong Country 3, there is a precise spot where switching from Dixie to Kiddy will cause Kiddy to fall through the ground and die. The ground is otherwise completely solid; it is only that specific action that is lethal.
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In Luigi's Mansion 3, the Steward always holds on to his hat, preventing a good look at the shape of his head during his battle. Removing his hat from his model reveals he has a misshapen head, suggesting that he holds on to his hat to avoid revealing it.
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The signatures of some people involved in the creation of Mario games contain Mario-inspired elements. Details in image.
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In Super Mario Maker 2, the unlockable Super Hammer allows the characters to produce crates. If Luigi enters a Clear Pipe while holding his crate facing left, it will display correctly. However, facing right, one of the L emblems - but not the entire model - will be mirrored.
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In Super Mario 64, Mario can safely hang off the back ledge of the roof of Peach's Castle bordering the out-of-bounds area (left). However, if Mario pulls himself up in this spot (right), he will immediately lose his hat and die.
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All sprites of Soldier Mario from the 1983 "Mario's Bombs Away" Game & Watch in high quality, scanned from the Panorama Screen device and cleaned up.
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Reader-submitted artwork of Sonic being shackled in Yoshi's basement, from the British N-Force magazine.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, performing an attack successfully makes the audience cheer, while failing makes them leave. The one exception is Bobbery's Bomb move. If no input is made, Bobbery will trip and fail (left), however, the audience will cheer anyway (right).
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In Bowser Jr.'s Airship Armada in Super Mario Galaxy, it is possible to accidentally shoot Mario to a different airship from the intended target. There is no way to proceed in the level or escape from the incorrect airship; Mario must jump overboard and die to restart the level.
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A pre-release screenshot of Paper Mario shows a bed without a blanket (left). In the finished game, all Toad House beds have blankets (middle). By modifying the game's code, we can see what Mario sleeping in the bed would look like if the blanket were removed (right).
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Update to this Tweet: the prerequisite for the Boo ball event is Boo losing the most recent hole in a VS. match; although the event still has a random chance of occurring. Thank you to Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour speedrunner @Kyandishan for the information! twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog…
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In Paper Mario, there is a letter that Parakarry can deliver to Kolorado. An extremely obscure unique interaction occurs if the player waits until the precise moment when Kolorado is ran over by a Spiny Tromp and is writhing on the floor in pain to deliver the letter.
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The manual for Super Mario Bros. 2 states that Clawgrip "grows suddenly", although he never grows in-game at all. In the Super Mario Advance version, however, he starts out as a small Sidestepper crab and then grows, finally fulfilling the manual description 13 years later.
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When opening the data of Super Mario Bros. 2 in a hex editor, the word "ZELDA" can be found in plain text due to some code being copied and pasted from The Legend of Zelda. This is both the earliest and the most obscure Zelda series reference in a Mario game.
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In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, paintings of Mario characters can be seen through a window in Zelda's courtyard. Due to the camera positioning at the end of the credits, the game's iconic final shot technically depicts four characters: Link, Zelda, Bowser and Luigi.
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In Super Mario Bros., some enemies can be turned into others when hit from below while 14 to 18 pixels away from the left edge of the screen. A Goomba will turn into a dead red Koopa Troopa; however, a Spiny will turn into a green Koopa Troopa and remain alive in its new form.
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"POWERFUL WARIO GAME 2004" sticker distributed with a limited edition release of Wario World in Japan. I had previously posted a low-quality image of it in 2017; this high-resolution scan has recently become available.
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In her sixth interlude in Paper Mario, Peach can use the Sneaky Parasol to turn into various enemies. If she first turns into a Clubba and then talks to this Hammer Bro, she will assume a unique "Clubba obtained an item" sprite that can only be seen in this specific scenario.
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Inspired by this post, reader @tomato_modest attempted to beat the known legitimate world record and was able to do so, with the new record being 15 doors! Congratulations!
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