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In Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3, the message shown when World Extra 2 is unlocked misspells "opened" as "opeeed".
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Mario Party 6 includes a debug mode, which can be accessed by modifying the game's files. Within it, a message check mode can be used to view all of the messages in the game. One message is unused; it is a short text box reading simply "k".
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British print ad for Super Mario Land 2. The "hedgehog" is referencing Sega's various Sonic the Hedgehog game ads that mentioned Mario games; however, even after this ad, it remained relatively uncommon for Nintendo to mention competitors' products in promotional material.
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Behind-the-scenes photo of the Donkey Kong mascot costume and kart used in the production of the North American commercial for Mario Kart: Super Circuit.
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Illustration of Mario as the referee from Punch-Out on the NES, from the Swedish Nintendomagasinet magazine. The original sprite is provided for comparison.
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Mario and Luigi's shocked expressions, visible for a single frame during the cutscene for entering Bowser's Castle in Mario Teaches Typing 2.
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Signs at "Pirates of the Marioland", an arcade in Ko Samui, Thailand. The arcade is operating without licensing from either Nintendo or Disney.
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In Super Mario Galaxy 2, Lubba usually has a mouth, which is visible in all official art and during normal gameplay (left). However, going into first-person view around Lubba makes his mouth completely disappear (right).
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Licensed 1992 Mario mugs featuring Mario saying "Two teas please" and "One lump or two?"
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Officially licensed 1998 Donkey Kong padlock from Japan.
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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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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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Giant Game Boy and SNES decorations, including a Super Mario World cartridge, from the 1994 Consumer Electronics Show.
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