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Even though Yoshi's Cookie for NES and Game Boy share many graphical assets, there is one major difference in the games' credits sequences. At the end of the credits in the Game Boy version, Mario and Yoshi wave with one hand, while in the NES version, they wave with both hands.
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Rare pieces of official art for Super Mario Bros. depicting enemies from behind.
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In Super Mario 64, spawning the 100 Coin Star by collecting the Red Coin shown in the top left in Dire, Dire Docks will cause it to spawn partially out of bounds (top right). The ceiling hitbox prevents Mario from touching the bottom of the Star, making it unobtainable.
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Super Smash Bros. illustration from the cover of an issue of GamePro magazine.
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The Game Boy Color version of Donkey Kong Country randomly displays one of three title screens upon starting the game; however, in international versions, the artwork is cut off at the bottom. Here is the full title screen artwork, visible in the Japanese version.
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Unique facial expression made by Luigi in Luigi's Mansion during an unused animation for being poisoned; viewable by modifying the game's code.
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After performing a capture in Super Mario Odyssey, Mario's original body dissolves into fragments. Normally, Snapshot Mode is disabled during this. However, capturing a manhole cover in New Donk City reenables it sooner, allowing us to view Mario's dissolving body up close.
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The aim of the Roll Call minigame in Mario Party 2 is to count crowds of Toads, Bob-ombs or Boos that move around. In the game's data, a sprite of Bomberman can be found next to this minigame's graphics, suggesting that a crowd of Bombermen may have also been intended to appear.
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The only existing image of an original Kong character intended to be playable in the cancelled Diddy Kong Pilot for the GBA, extracted from the data of a leaked prototype. According to a dkvine.com interview with an anonymous Rare source, his name was "Redneck Kong".
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Giant Game Boy and SNES decorations, including a Super Mario World cartridge, from the 1994 Consumer Electronics Show.
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Concept art of Mario in a wrestling outfit for the unreleased Super Mario Spikers, a volleyball/wrestling hybrid game planned for the Wii.
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The 1999 PlayStation game 40 Winks mentions Mario on its North American cover, as it prominently displays the quote "Move over Mario..." from Nintendo Official Magazine. The magazine in question reviewed a Nintendo 64 copy of the game that ended up not being released.
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Officially licensed 1998 Donkey Kong padlock from Japan.
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In Donkey Kong 64, there are books on the shelves in the log cabins in Crystal Caves. The covers of all these books read "Monkey Book of Science, by M. Nuts". Due to the very dim lighting in the cabins, these are hard to see; I have increased the contrast in the image.
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The Japanese version of Wario Land 3 includes a sheet of stickers to be applied to a picture of Wario (left). Nintendo of Japan's official website for the game also includes an example of what Wario should look like after applying the stickers (right).
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Princess Peach resting under a cubist painting of Mario after being poisoned, from the Japanese "Super Mario Wisdom Games Picture Book 2: Mario and Wendy".
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Illustration of Yoshi without arms from GamePro magazine. As other illustrations of Yoshi from the same issue do have arms, this is most likely an oversight.
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Drawing by Shigeru Miyamoto celebrating the 200th issue of Nintendo Power, on display at the Nintendo World Store in New York.
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Behind-the-scenes photo taken during the process of creating the Mario mascot head for the costume used in the North American commercial for Mario Party 5.
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Unused sitting sprites for Mario and Pauline, found in the code of Donkey Kong for the NES. These may have been used for an alternate ending scene.
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The Yoshis from Yoshi's Island drawing their ideas of what a grown-up Baby Mario would look like, from a 1995 Yoshi's Island manga.
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Extremely rare artwork of Yoshi holding a snowball decorated to look like an apple (left), found only on a billboard at the 2015 Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan. The artwork is an edit of the artwork used on the cover of "With Yoshi" (right), a Japan-exclusive Yoshi art book.
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In Mario Party: Island Tour, completing Bowser's Tower as any character except Bowser Jr. will prompt Bowser to say "That wasn't even my final form!", a reference to a catchphrase originating in Dragon Ball Z. The reference is absent in the British English translation.
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While Waluigi is already the tallest regular human Mario character, he would appear even taller if he was standing up straight. Here is a comparison between the heights of his usual stance and a stance with good posture using the Mario character size reference chart.
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Unlike all previous Mario platformers, Super Mario Odyssey was rated E10+ instead of E by the ESRB. The official write-up mentions the Cookatiel boss battle, during which the boss spits out pink soup (top right); meaning this may have contributed to the higher rating.
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