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Catalog image of a set of licensed 1989 Super Mario Bros. figurines.
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The manual for WarioWare: Smooth Moves includes an illustration to discourage operating the Wii Remote using tentacles.
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Mario Party 7 is the only game in the Mario Party series where a "Confirm" prompt appears after the board victory message, seemingly suggesting that the victory is still pending approval even though the character is already celebrating it.
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Mario and Wario's answers to the question "what will more Nintendo 64 games be using in 1999?" from Nintendo Power.
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The cork blocking Gooper Blooper's mouth in Super Mario Sunshine has writing on it, which can not be read in full in-game due to the cork being destroyed upon extraction. The writing appears to say "bsgeso", which may be short for Bosu Gessō, the boss's Japanese name.
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The Rainbow Road track in Mario Kart: Super Circuit features Bowser's Castle in its Paper Mario design in the background (left). However, a wallpaper from Nintendo of America's official website for the game contains a different, more menacing-looking design (right).
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The quiz for returning the stolen Sistine Chapel ceiling in the SNES version of Mario is Missing offers the answer option "Splinter" among names of Italian artists, in a reference to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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In the Nimbus Land palace in Super Mario RPG, strategically placing Mario to block this Nimbus person's path to make him only walk towards the door will result in him clipping into the door, then the wall, and finally walking out into the darkness beyond the room.
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Close-up look at the wanted posters appearing in various places in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Of note is that while the first two criminals each have a bounty of 8,000,000 dollars, the last one has a bounty of 8,000,000 cents.
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During FLUDD's introduction cutscene in Super Mario Sunshine, we can see a line denoting the operating system in the upper left. FLUDD appears to be running "O-Y-OS Version 7.01 Service Pack 7.1" The O-Y presumably stands for "オヤ" ("Oya"), E. Gadd's first name in Japanese.
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The packaging of the licensed "Radio Boy", a Game Boy-shaped radio, features artwork of an Eerie, a ghost enemy from Super Mario World, listening to the device. Unlike the Eeries in the game, this one is colorful, as though it was not a ghost, but rather still alive.
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Renders of Bowser from the Prima official guide for Super Mario Galaxy.
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An image of Mario being projected onto the side of a building in New York during the GameCube launch on November 18, 2001. To celebrate, Nintendo organized a "Cube Club" event with celebrity guest Lil' Kim.
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Artwork from the bottles of the two different varieties of officially licensed Super Mario Bros. shampoo.
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Dutch and Swedish Mario from a German Club Nintendo calendar.
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Previously unknown instance of Big Yoshi artwork found by Twitter user @PieMehker on an extremely rare Super Mario RPG trading card. Previous developments: twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog… twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog…
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Drawing of Raccoon Mario by Shigeru Miyamoto, displayed in a Japanese Mario memorabilia collection.
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Illustration from the British Club Nintendo newsletter. Princess Peach and Toad are fleeing from Fareham, a town in Hampshire, England.
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The unreleased "Donkey Kong's Music Play" for the Famicom, shown in a 1983 Nintendo promotional handout. This screenshot shows the "Donkey Band" Karaoke mode.
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Illustration of Mario from the cover of an issue of the Australian Hyper magazine.
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Comparison between Weird Mario's sprite in Super Mario Maker seen in the announcement trailer at E3 2014 (left) and the release version of the game (right).
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In the manual for Tetris & Dr. Mario for the SNES, Dr. Mario exhibits a disproportionately panicked reaction to the scenario of receiving a J piece after a Z piece in Tetris.
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Toadette's transformation into Peachette upon collecting a crown in New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe may be a reference to Yoshi's ability to transform into Mario, Luigi and Wario by picking up their hats in Super Mario 64 DS.
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