1576
Illustration of Mario based on Small Mario's appearance in Super Mario Bros., from the cover of the Japanese High Score magazine.
1577
The licensed 1989 coloring book "Nintendo Super Mario Bros. Sticker Fun" contains two instances of Goombas with irregular designs: one with fangs pointing down instead of up (top), and another without any fangs or eyebrows (bottom).
1578
A small detail in Mario Kart 8/Deluxe that is very hard to see in-game: while other tires are branded with "Mario Kart" or "Mario Motors", the Cushion Tires are branded with "Lemmy's", a reference to both the Lemmy's Tire Service signs on many tracks and to his circus aesthetic.
1579
Completing the Special World in Super Mario World results in, among other changes, some enemies assuming alternate forms (left column). However, two forms were added exclusively to the Super Mario Advance 2 version that were absent from the original (middle and right columns).
1580
In Super Mario Bros. 2, if a Subspace door is positioned over a patch of grass and the player character plucks it quickly after exiting Subspace, the plucked object will be worn on the character's head instead of carried. Details in image.
1581
Pre-release screenshots of Super Mario RPG suggest that Knife Guy and Grate Guy were intended to have much more prominent roles in the game, as they are shown being fought at the very beginning of the game, and Knife Guy is shown in the overworld putting on a show for a crowd.
1582
Mario in the new Super Smash Bros. for Switch, as seen in the latest Nintendo Direct.
1583
In Super Mario Galaxy, the bubble generators in Bubble Breeze Galaxy have unused settings to create cubic and octahedral bubbles. As the galaxy's internal name is "CubeBubbleEx", the cube was likely the original intended shape before being replaced with traditional round bubbles.
1584
Dr. Mario preparing to fight the Viruses, from a Dr. Mario manga feature in the Japanese Famitsu magazine.
1585
Shigeru Miyamoto with his personal collection of Mario items in 1995.
1586
In Level 3 of the "Opening Night" microgame in WarioWare: Smooth Moves, Samus Aran from the Metroid series appears playing a cello (left). This is likely a reference to the NES version of Tetris, where upon reaching a high enough score, Samus also appears playing a cello (right).
1587
Rare officially licensed 1990 Super Mario Bros. 3 T-shirt depicting Mario swatting away King Koopa's fireball with his hand. In the game, Mario has no way of deflecting fire attacks; the first time he was able to do this using just his fists was in Super Mario Galaxy in 2007.
1588
Evolution of official Nintendo golden Mario trophies: left, the 1990 Nintendo World Championship first prize trophy; right, the 2010 Japanese New Super Mario Bros. Wii tournament first prize trophy.
1589
Other games that feature the Luigi's Mansion mansion (top left: Super Smash Bros. Brawl, bottom left: Mario Power Tennis) show the back as a simple wall. This is inaccurate with respect to how it looks in Luigi's Mansion (right), where it has a large rear section with a balcony.
1590
In one of the intro cutscenes of Super Mario Sunshine, Shadow Mario appears to be larger than he should be. I discuss the possible explanations in the attached image.
1591
In Super Mario Bros. 2, a POW Block and the end-of-level Crystal Ball are found in the same room in 1-3. Dropping the POW Block next to the Crystal Ball makes it ascend. Picking it up near the ceiling causes the character to fall through the floor and become stuck indefinitely.
1592
This drawing of Yoshi and Toad from Game & Watch Gallery 4 is the only time Toad has ever been depicted with visible teeth in any official artwork for a game.
1593
Illustration for the sentence "It is fun to sit on the pig" from the PC version of the educational game Mario's Early Years: Fun with Letters.
1594
In Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World, Luigi's new, redrawn Super Mario World sprites have an unused palette that gives him Mario's colors.
1595
Shadow clones from Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Shadow the Hedgehog's clone is called "Shadow Shadow".
1596
The manual for WarioWare: Smooth Moves includes an illustration to discourage operating the Wii Remote using tentacles.
1597
Dixie Kong's hair is fully modeled underneath her hat in the model used for her trophy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. We can see how she would appear without the hat by removing it in a model editor.
1598
Artwork from the cover of the manual for Super Irmãos (Portuguese for "Super Brothers"), an unlicensed distribution of Super Mario Bros. from Brazil.
1599
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Cortez uses two different models for facing left and facing right. While during gameplay, the model simply appears to rotate, changing the view reveals that right-facing Cortez is mirrored, recolored, and has no Jolly Roger on his hat.
1600
In a section of Flipsville Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy 2, Chomps can be seen rolling by through a window (left). Moving the camera inside the building (right) reveals that unlike the regular Chomp model, these particular Chomps have no visible teeth separation.
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