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The credits for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door show a photo montage of the adventure. 49 out of the 50 photos are always the same. However, the photo of Ms. Mowz kissing Mario will show Goombella or Koops depending on who was active during that cutscene in that playthrough.
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In the beginning segment of Luigi's Mansion 3, Luigi gets a disturbed look when near the hotel staff (left). The animation of him noticing the ghosts can only be seen during that segment and includes him going through several expressions in half a second (right).
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All mainline (non-arcade) Mario Kart games share this property: each title contains either the SNES Rainbow Road track or the Fake Item Box item, but never both at the same time. While it is most likely a coincidence, this is the only such exclusionary relationship in the series.
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In 1990, Nintendo of America filed a trademark for "Super Mario Sisters" to be used as the name of an electronic game program. However, the trademark was abandoned a year later without any product being released. To date, the original plans regarding the name remain unknown.
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Promotional Super Mario Bros. New Year celebration artwork from a Japanese Nintendo products brochure. Happy New Year from Supper Mario Broth! I would like to thank all my readers for your continued interest in obscure Mario information. I wish all of you the best in 2020!
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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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According to the original 1985 design documents for Super Mario Bros., the first Goomba in World 1-1 was intended to start off on the blocks. According to Shigeru Miyamoto, this did not create a welcoming atmosphere, so the Goomba was moved to the ground to be easier to avoid.
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1982 officially licensed Donkey Kong plush, the earliest Donkey Kong arcade plush and thus by extension the first licensed plush toy in the Mario franchise.
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The clouds behind Peach's Castle in the file select menu in Super Mario 64 DS do not appear there in-game (left). They are actually taken from the Shifting Sand Land background of the original Nintendo 64 version (right), the only such background reuse in the game.
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While most Mario artwork since 2000 is available in high resolution due to being distributed digitally to journalists, there are exceptions. This Super Mario 64 DS artwork of Wario throwing Luigi is exclusive to a single guide and no high-resolution version of it was ever found.
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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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Set of four rare Christmas-themed plush toys of Mario characters, available exclusively as prizes from claw machines in Japan in the winter of 1993.
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Mario Party 5, 6 and 7 each contain references to the Paper Mario series, although with each following game, the references become more minor and obscure, with the final one being only a design of part of one character's clothing. Details below.
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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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Store display for a 1992 Nintendo/Pepsi cross-promotional campaign. This is chronologically the first time Yoshi has been seen wearing reindeer antlers, which has become a recurring theme and most recently appeared as Yoshi's Reindeer outfit in Mario Kart Tour.
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Behind-the-scenes photos from Charles Martinet's first interactive Mario In Real Time performance at the 1993 Summer Consumer Electronics Show. Left: Martinet watches another actor use the motion-capture headgear, middle: Martinet in his headgear, right: the interactive monitor.
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The intro to the arcade version of Donkey Kong Jr. features a scene where a second Mario appears. This character is not mentioned in any supplementary material and is missing from all other ports and remakes of the game. Note that the game predates Luigi's existence by a year.
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1999 Christmas poster from the German Club Nintendo magazine. Note that the Pokémon characters were not part of the original drawing and were quickly pasted in before release due to the unexpected success of the franchise in Germany in the final months of 1999.
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In Super Mario World, the Dino Rhinos do not attack; however, there are unused sprites of them spitting fire in the data (mockup on left). 26 years later, this is referenced in Paper Mario: Color Splash where Dino Rhinos finally are able to perform that attack (right).
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The Bowser and Bowser Jr. snow sculptures found in the background of the "Fliprus Floes" level in New Super Luigi U, extracted from the game's data.
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The high-polygon model of the New Donk City taxis in Super Mario Odyssey, which has 5306 triangles, compared to the low-polygon model, which is over 36 times simpler at 144 triangles. The model on the right is used for the flying taxis and the ones driving on distant bridges.
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In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Wario is able to get up after losing all HP in a Stamina Brawl and continue fighting despite his HP display being completely gone under specific circumstances involving his Final Smash. Details in image.
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Some minigames in the Nintendo 64 Mario Party games are programmed to never end in a draw. Instead, they are biased in favor of Player 1; even with identical inputs among the players, the game cheats on the last frame to let Player 1 win. Details in image.
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On the My Nintendo website, the user's Mii will be engaged in a random activity on the top of the page. One of them is painting (left); clicking the Mii will reveal one of 8 paintings that appear with varying rarities (right), 5 of which are related to the Mario series.
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Promotional photos from the premiere of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie in Buenos Aires, Argentina, featuring a Mario mascot suit unique to that event.
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