1526
Illustrations of Candy Kong in her Donkey Kong Country TV show design beating up various Kremlings and King K. Rool, from a set of Japanese Donkey Kong trading cards.
1527
Due to the X and Y buttons sharing all functions in Super Mario World, it is possible to perform a button press action while it's already being held, by holding one and pressing the other.This allows Mario to throw fireballs while holding an item, impossible with just one button.
1528
In 2001, a concept for a Game Boy pool billiards game starring Wario, called tentatively "Wario Pool", was pitched to Nintendo by an upstart development team, but ultimately rejected. These intro cinematic drawings were part of the initial presentation.
1529
Concept art for Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker characters not present in the finished game, from the 2015 Nintendo company guide. Top: a living door that quizzes Captain Toad to proceed, bottom left: Goombas with accessories, bottom right: Cat Captain Toad.
1530
Drawing of Mario and a Luma by Shigeru Miyamoto, along with a message, from the Collector's Edition of the Super Mario Galaxy Prima official guide.
1531
Design from an officially licensed Mario Kart 64 T-shirt.
1532
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.
1533
Failing to turn Mario into the correct form in the "Super Mario Bros. 3" microgame in WarioWare: Twisted results in other Marios looking at the playable Mario with a unique annoyed expression not present in the original game. Below are the annoyed sprites of all of Mario's forms.
1534
If the MARIO.EXE file of the DOS version of Mario Teaches Typing is opened in a text editor, an ASCII art version of Mario's head can be found within the code.
1535
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, there is an error in Mario's "wedding" costume that results in a hole between the model's shirt and trousers, through which the inside of the model can be seen. Although the model originates in Super Mario Odyssey, no such error is present there.
1536
A licensed 1982 Donkey Kong arcade sticker (left) depicts Mario wearing a green hat and overalls and a reddish shirt. The sticker ended up predicting Luigi's appearance in the 1983 Mario Bros. arcade (right), a year before Luigi existed.
1537
Waluigi disguised as Dr. Mario from a 2007 multi-part Dr. Mario manga.
1538
In the original Nintendo 64 version of Paper Mario, the ground in Star Haven has a rainbow effect that recolors the ground based on distance from the camera (top). This effect is hardware-specific and absent from the Wii and Wii U Virtual Console versions of the game (bottom).
1539
Throughout the Mario franchise, gold coins are sometimes shown to be picked up by magnets. Pure gold is not magnetic; however, gold alloys with at least 40% non-gold content can exhibit magnetism. Thus, the coins from the Mario franchise can be assumed to have at most 60% purity.
1540
During the development of various games, the concept of expanding Bowser's affinity for airships into a full-blown pilot theme comes up, but is never used in the finished product. Left: plane airship concept for NSMB Wii, right: pilot Bowser concept for Skylanders: SuperChargers.
1541
Unlicensed Luigi and Fire Mario handheld mirrors.
1542
In New Super Mario Bros., whenever Small Mario ducks, the lower part of his torso deforms in such a way that it goes below ground, lower than Mario's feet. The internal resolution of the game has been increased in the attached screenshots for clearer view.
1543
Paper Mario uses a perspective trick to display the windmill in Gusty Gulch properly. While the blades appear attached to the mill in an ordinary manner during gameplay (left), they are actually floating in front of it (right) to prevent them from clipping into the building.
1544
In Luigi's Mansion, the portrait ghost Neville is seen reading a book (top left). While too blurry to say for certain, the texture for the book (bottom left) seems to depict Mario's head and the words "Mario Story". This could be a reference to the Japanese name for Paper Mario.
1545
In Mario Kart: Double Dash, King Boo changes sizes whenever he switches between the driver and passenger seats. Top: screenshots taken from the same camera position of King Boo in both places; note Toad's consistent size. Bottom: direct size comparison.
1546
Photo from a 1990 Nintendo advertising brochure from Sweden.
1547
Drawings of Koopa Paratroopas from concept art sketches for Super Mario Bros., drawn by Shigeru Miyamoto. The drawing in the center appears to be from later in the design process and is closer to the enemies' look in the finished game.
1548
Officially licensed Super Mario World mugs featuring characters with discolorations, particularly around the eye areas.
1549
The Game Boy Advance version of Donkey Kong Country 3 uses the widely available Comic Sans MS typeface instead of trying to match the original typefaces when remaking both official art and in-game assets. Left: original SNES version, right: GBA remake.
1550
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.
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