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Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga was released in Japan four days after its North American release. Despite the short time frame, changes were made to the Japanese version, such as Bowser's side view being changed to make Bowser slightly thinner and give him fuller hair and a smile.
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Mario showcases his drawings of Yoshi, from a Mario & Wario manga.
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In Super Mario Galaxy, Mario's silhouette is visible whenever Mario walks behind an object. The silhouette is always of regular Mario, even when he is in a different form, like Bee Mario. To prevent too much of a discrepancy between the two models, Boo Mario has no silhouette.
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Extremely rare official art of Mario with an irregularly-shaped mouth, found in the booklet included with the 1988 Japanese official "Fantastic World of Super Mario Bros. 3" remix album.
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The beta version of Mario Kart 64, titled "Super Mario Kart R" during development, was intended to feature a Magikoopa, presumably Kamek, as a playable character instead of Donkey Kong. Here are all existing images of the Magikoopa from that version in the best quality available.
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Wrecking Crew '98 for the Super Famicom, a Japan-only sequel to the original Wrecking Crew, features a rice ball as a playable character. Here are the rice ball's sprites, profile pictures and victory scene graphics.
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Promotional photograph of Mario and Shigeru Miyamoto during a 2012 visit to South Korea. Shigeru Miyamoto visited Korea as he expressed a desire to personally apologize to the Korean Nintendo audience for the 5-month delay in the localization of Super Mario 3D Land.
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Contrary to popular belief, Super Mario Odyssey was not the first game to give Mario visible nipples (left). Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, which released one year earlier, featured a Miiverse stamp depicting Mario with nipples (right).
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Japanese Super Mario World finger puppets of Cape Mario in progressive stages of liftoff.
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The Japanese version of the Donkey Kong arcade features the pre-round message "How high can you try?" (left). This was changed in the North American version to "How high can you get?" (right).
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In Super Mario Odyssey, whenever Mario opens the closet found inside the Odyssey, there is one frame where the model of Mario used to preview costumes is displayed outside the change menu, resulting in two Marios in the scene. During this frame, the mirror reflects only darkness.
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Giant inflatable Mario and Yoshi, seen at the 1993 Consumer Electronics Show.
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In Super Mario 64, Mario can recover air underwater by collecting coins. A Super Mario 64 manga explains that Mario breaks open the coins, which are filled with air, and inhales it. (I have rearranged the panels into a Western left-to-right reading order.)
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Super Mario Bros. Power Up is a Mario-themed energy drink licensed by Nintendo (left, Official Nintendo Seal in top right). Unfortunately, due to its high caffeine content, the product comes with a warning that it is not intended for children (bottom right).
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The way the blue rings around Wario's eyes interact with his eyelids is inconsistent. Sometimes the eyelid covers the ring, sometimes the ring surrounds the eyelid, sometimes the ring disappears when the eye closes and sometimes one eyelid goes over and the other under the ring.
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Front and side views of a licensed 2001 Bowser bobblehead toy.
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Illustration of mudslinging between Sony (represented by Crash Bandicoot) and Nintendo (represented by Mario) in an editorial in GamePro magazine.
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If you wait long enough on the title screen for the SNES version of Yoshi's Cookie, Yoshi will transform into a cookie in an extremely quick animation lasting only 5 frames. Here are all frames of that animation.
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The final story mission of Super Mario Odyssey contains a segment that is navigated by capturing a Pokio bird and sticking its beak into moving platforms. If another platform intercepts the Pokio, its body will be dragged away, resulting in the beak becoming extremely elongated.
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All color schemes of Referee Mario from Mario Tennis for the Nintendo 64, viewed in the in-game debug mode. Referee Mario never wears his blue hat with his green jacket.
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Left: Princess Peach's regular 3D model. Right: Princess Peach's model used in Mario Kart 7. To fit her body inside the relatively small karts, her legs were shortened considerably.
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Bowser T-shirt from South Korea, captioned "The Big Boss Koopa" on the front and "Koopa the Big Boss" on the back.
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The high-polygon model for Mario's mustache, seen in the pause menu of Super Mario Odyssey. With 814 triangles, it is nearly as complex as Super Mario 64 Mario's entire model, which had 838 triangles.
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In 2014, the Japanese Club Nintendo offered a set of Dr. Luigi-themed microfiber screen cleaning cloths as a reward for members. The package included a special message in English, along with a custom Club Nintendo logo depicting a Luigi cap instead of the usual Mario cap.
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In Luigi's Mansion, the Game Boy Horror scan hitbox of the Toad on the 2nd floor balcony is partially overlapped by the scan hitbox of the potted plant near him, resulting in Luigi sometimes remarking how sad it is that no one watered Toad in a long time when scanning him.
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