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Illustration of Mario and Bill Gates from a TIME Magazine article about the rivalry between Nintendo and Microsoft.
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Promotional photo by Nintendo of America of Donkey Kong preparing to deliver a truck full of Donkey Kong 64 cartridges to Blockbuster locations.
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Mario drawn by Shigeru Miyamoto in 2003.
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Extremely rare flagless front-facing Koopa Troopa and Boo artwork for Mario Party, found in the British Nintendo World magazine. "Flagless" refers to the fact that all commonly available Mario Party Koopa Troopa artwork depicts him holding a flag.
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Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong performing on stage at Nintendo Space World 2000.
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The actor playing Mario in the North American commercial for Super Mario Sunshine during a break from filming, as well as his head and glove props.
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Unique official artwork of penguins seen in a wallpaper provided on Nintendo of America's former site for Mario Kart: Super Circuit.
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In Yoshi's Cookie for the SNES, defeating all four characters in VS. mode unlocks a set of what the game calls "new versions" of competitors. Note that the green Mario-like character is explicitly not Luigi, but a "new version" of Mario.
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I have recently had my first public interview. If you would like to find out more about Supper Mario Broth, and me, you are welcome to read it here: waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/…
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Official artwork of Toad from the manual of Mario's Tennis for the Virtual Boy depicts him sitting next to a can of soda that highly resembles a simplified Coca Cola can, colored blue (left). In fact, some regional markets like Turkey sell very similar blue cans (right).
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The final shot of King K. Rool from the credits of DK: Jungle Climber. This is King K. Rool's last appearance in the main Donkey Kong series, as all his subsequent appearances were in sports, fighting, or party games.
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Close-up of Old Link's face, seen in Level 2 of the "Ocarina of Time" microgame in WarioWare: Smooth Moves.
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The title screen for Yoshi on the NES contains four different versions of Baby Yoshi across the versions, one unused. Below is a showcase of the sprites and where they appear.
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Super Mario Bros. Willie Shrinkles, a rare officially licensed craft product consisting of coloring pictures printed on paper that shrinks when baked in an oven.
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The name used internally for Super Mario Galaxy 2 within the files of the game is "SUPER MARIO GALAXY MORE" (top right). This is consistent with interviews of the game's staff stating development names for the game were "Super Mario Galaxy 1.5" and "More Super Mario Galaxy".
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A call to all my readers: if you have access to the North American 3DS Virtual Console version of Super Mario Land, you may become the first person to prove the existence of the elusive Goombo. Details below.
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Thanks to the quick efforts of my readers, Goombo has been found! Special thanks to @ultra_jawbone for the first picture, as well as @JackalFrost, @thursdaysrain, @conorsuks and everyone else who contributed a picture! I am so grateful for your cooperation! Goombo is confirmed!
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Beta Whomp design from Super Mario 64, seen for only a few frames during the surviving footage of the Shoshinkai 1995 trade show demo of the game.
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Officially licensed Japanese Toad figurine from 1986. It is based on the Toad with a nose depicted on the Japanese box art for Super Mario Bros. (right).
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Evolution of official Nintendo golden Mario trophies: left, the 1990 Nintendo World Championship first prize trophy; right, the 2010 Japanese New Super Mario Bros. Wii tournament first prize trophy.
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500-piece French licensed jigsaw puzzle named "Super Mario contre le dragon" ("Super Mario against the dragon"), featuring a design of Bowser/King Koopa from the DiC cartoon series recolored to be yellow.
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Top: official artwork of Mario's mustache without his nose, released by Nintendo of Japan for Super Mario Odyssey. We can see that while most of the mustache has a more realistic texture, the middle, normally covered up by the nose, has a different, more stylized texture.
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Print ad for Nintendo of Brazil's official site, using the "M" emblem on Mario's hat in a creative manner.
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"Handsome Yoshi" from a 1995 Yoshi's Island manga.
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