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The default camera in the foyer of Big Boo's Haunt in Super Mario 64 is fixed in place above the front door, only rotating to keep Mario in view (top). Entering first-person mode reveals an otherwise unseen Boo painting in the exact spot where the default camera is (bottom).
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Both Super Mario Maker (top row) and Super Mario Odyssey (bottom row) contain sprites of a mustached Bowser carrying Peach in the style of Super Mario Bros., but drawn slightly differently. Here is a comparison of the two. Super Mario Odyssey also includes a unique "skid" pose.
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In The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, screen-warping glitches can take the player to this room, unreachable by normal means, containing a Yoshi Doll. Picking up the doll displays the text "I don't suppose it would do any good to beg? If you change your mind, tell me."
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In Paper Mario, there is a graphical glitch involving the Toad running the Toad House in Shiver City. If the game is paused immediately after Mario talks to him after waking up, upon unpausing the Toad will lose his winter clothes and stop smiling.
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In Super Mario Bros. 3, certain environments cause Fire Mario's fireballs to assume different palettes. During all Koopaling battles, they become white with a light blue outline (left). Inside Toad Houses, they become green with a black outline (right).
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A comparison of the tiny character sprites seen in the endings to Super Mario Bros. 2 (left) and its remake within Super Mario All-Stars (right). This is a rare example of Mario and Luigi being depicted without mustaches, as usually they are visible in even the smallest sprites.
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As of the current Nintendo Switch firmware version (7.0.1), Toadette is one of the characters with the most representation among the selectable user icons. Depending on how certain characters are counted (explanation in image), she may even be the most represented character.
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In 2005, Camelot, the developers of Mario Power Tennis, provided storyboard drawings of the game's intro (left) to the British Official Nintendo Magazine. Here is a comparison between the sketches and the frames of the finished in-game animation that they correspond to.
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In 2007, this set of Super Mario Bros. postal stamps was released in Japan. The stamp depicting Small Mario contains a small inaccuracy, as Mario's hat's brim is 1 pixel shorter than the in-game sprite. Another stamp depicts Small Fire Mario, which is impossible without glitches.
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Roy Koopa's model without his sunglasses. While the lack of eyes is to be expected given how his sunglasses are never taken off, the area behind them is nevertheless fully modeled, with a skin texture where the eyes would be.
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This group artwork for Super Mario Bros. 3 is notable in that every single character in it with a visible eye color (eyes that are not simple dot pupils) has blue eyes. Bowser's eye color was changed to red since, so this would no longer be true if the image was recreated today.
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In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, clearing 4 lines at once in the Barrel minigame will result in an 8-bit sprite of a skeleton briefly appearing. The sprite is a reference to the original sprite of the Stalfos enemy from The Legend of Zelda on the NES.
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In the casino minigames found in Super Mario 64 DS and New Super Mario Bros., Luigi appears wearing a croupier outfit. Although he is only seen from the waist up, his legs are also modeled. Here are images of Croupier Luigi's model from various angles.
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Full version of a promotional render of Toad's Turnpike for Mario Kart 64. The full image was only used in Japan; audiences in all other territories were provided a cropped version that omitted the sign saying "Kinopio Highway", the course's Japanese name.
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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).
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Very briefly visible in the trailer for Super Mario Maker 2 is an aesthetic change that has been widely requested for the original: the starting platform is no longer separated from the level with a visible boundary. Instead, now the platform merges with the rest of the level.
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In Super Mario Galaxy 2, the background of Bowser's Galaxy Generator appears to be a gigantic castle hallway (top left). However, this is merely a perspective trick. The hallway and columns are not 3D models, but instead merely a texture covering the inside of a large sphere.
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In the Yoshi's Crafted World demo, a box of cookies called "Yo'ster Cookies" can be found. This in a reference to Super Mario RPG, where an island inhabited by Yoshis called "Yo'ster Isle" can be found.
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Whenever Mario travels via the Cheep Blimp in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, a small version of Glitzville is seen from far away (top). Zooming in, we can see that the small signs were not localized and display the Japanese names "Urontown" and "Fresh Juice Uron" (bottom).
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In Super Mario Bros. 3, it is possible to become trapped in this spot in Level 1-3. If Small Mario stops the Koopa shell after it breaks two blocks and falls down the opening, a hidden Note Block will stop him from jumping back out. Mario cannot escape until the timer runs out.
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Goombas were added very late into the development of Super Mario Bros., and due to time constraints, the team decided to edit a previously drawn sprite rather than creating a new one from scratch for the enemy. The provided image details the process.
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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).
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Box art for the unauthorized "Super Mario Castlevania" disk for the Famicom Disk System (left). The game consists of Castlevania with Simon's graphics being replaced by sprites of Mario from Super Mario Bros. (right).
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The Balloon Boo, encountered only in World 4-Ghost Castle in New Super Mario Bros., is always seen from the front. Extracting and viewing the model from the side, we can see it is actually shaped like a balloon, even including a hole in the tail that is not normally visible.
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Official artwork of Bowser laughing at a screen depicting logos of Internet video streaming services from a Japanese Wii U informational brochure. Although it may appear that the TV screen has been edited in from different artwork, this is the only existing version of this image.
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