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For unknown reasons, if some minigames in Mario Party 4 are accessed without selecting a character, the game loads them with glitched instances of Daisy instead of Mario, as expected. Below are some examples of Daisy's unusual behavior.
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In World 2-1 of Super Mario Bros., letting too many enemies gather near the final pipe of the level will cause entities to start despawning, which may cause the trampoline to disappear. Jumping into the space where it was will trap Mario in mid-air forever.
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In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, if a character wearing a Penguin Suit knocks another character wearing a Penguin Suit off a Yoshi in mid-air using a Ground Pound, for one frame, both of the characters' heads will detach from their bodies.
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In Super Mario 3D World, repeatedly hitting Bowser's broken car has a small chance of playing a random Super Mario World sound effect. Due to the low chance and the high number of possible sound effects, it is unlikely that any player has ever heard them all. Details in video.
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In Yoshi's Island, using a glitch (instructions in reply), Yoshi can eat Baby Mario. However, as Baby Mario is necessary to complete the level, after doing this, there is little Yoshi can do except die.
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The Target department store chain is known for the distinctive red cement spheres, called bollards, in front of their buildings. In 2017, as part of a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe promotion, the bollards were briefly decorated to look like Mario and Luigi heads.
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I apologize for deleting this post earlier. An extremely minor mathematical error was discovered; please accept this corrected version. The probability is
0.0000000000000000000000000007%
instead of
0.0000000000000000000000000005%
as originally claimed.
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In Donkey Kong Country, if a Kong throws a DK Barrel, but the level is exited before it hits the ground, then the next time that Kong is hit by an enemy, instead of dying, he will simply freeze in place with a shocked expression forever.
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Upon hearing the official 1992 Super Mario Land rap song, one might assume it was commissioned by Nintendo of America. That is not true; instead, the UK musician Simon Harris could not get permission from them, and instead got personal approval for the song from Shigeru Miyamoto.
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Previously, I posted about an extremely rare Super Mario 64 DS render of Wario throwing Luigi that was only available at a low resolution. I was finally able to track down a high-quality version of it in a French magazine, allowing a clearer look at the render for the first time.
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In the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 3, minigame types are encoded in a single byte. Only few values of the byte are used, leaving the rest invalid, producing glitched results. One of the invalid values results in Toad saying "a" and ending the minigame.
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In 2022, only two new Mario games were released, Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope and Mario Strikers: Battle League. This is the lowest amount of Mario games released in a single year in 32 years (since 1990, when only Dr. Mario and Super Mario World were released).
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In Paper Mario, talking to the green Bob-omb in Kooper's house while touching the small ledge behind him may result in Mario losing the ability to do anything except slide around slowly. As he cannot open doors in this state, Mario will be trapped inside this house forever.
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Promotional photo for an officially licensed 2020 Boo stress ball.
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In almost all language versions of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the password for the quiz room in the X-Naut Fortress is "014029". However, in the French version alone, the password was inexplicably changed to "excuse" instead.
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Normally, hitting characters with Star Bits in Super Mario Galaxy will briefly disorient them, after which they quickly return to normal. However, hitting Banktoad in the purple coin mission of Dusty Dune Galaxy will instead make him sad indefinitely, never recovering.
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Some copies of the European Spanish manual for Super Mario Bros. contain a bizarre error where the pictures for Bowser, Princess Toadstool and the Jumping Board are switched around, labeling e.g. a picture of Bowser as "Jumping Board".
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In Super Mario 64, there is a corner in Shifting Sand Land where rolling into it will result in Mario rolling in place. At this point, the only options are to continue rolling indefinitely or to tilt Mario towards the quicksand to let him die.
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An officially licensed 2013 Luigi Nintendo 3DS XL cover featured distorted official artwork of Luigi that drastically shortened the length of his neck. Below is a comparison between the source artwork and the version depicted on the cover.
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In Super Mario Galaxy 2, the Wigglers on the slide in Tall Trunk Galaxy are actually a special "Adjustable-Length Wiggler" object. While the game never gives them more than 4 body segments, the object actually supports a maximum of 400. Below is a Wiggler of maximum length.
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In Paper Mario: The Origami King, defeating the Boss Sumo Bro with a POW Block has a chance of making the game unplayable. The Sumo Bro will die, but Mario will be stuck in mid-air in a crumpled form while the Toads continue to cheer forever, requiring the game to be reset.
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In Super Mario RPG, Mario never closes other people's doors after himself. If he opens a door and walks away, the door will remain open. The only exception is the door to his own house, which Mario will immediately close after himself.
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A common Super Mario 64 urban legend is that it is possible for Dorrie to eat Mario, based on an in-game sign saying "Don't become his lunch". While that is not possible, Mario can in fact be harmed by Dorrie by diving into its neck at a very precise angle, becoming squashed.
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The facial textures of Mario's model in Mario Kart 8/Deluxe appear to depict him with a pointy nose. The nose area is actually shading that is mapped underneath his mustache and is as such essentially unseen in-game.
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