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The February 2019 reveal trailer for the Switch version of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening contained a Goomba design in line with their standard Mario series appearance (left). However, this has since been redesigned (middle) to match the original Game Boy version (right).
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A new hammer power-up introduced in Super Mario Maker 2 allows the player to break grey blocks (left). This could be an extremely specific reference to grey blocks exclusive to a single e-Reader level in Super Mario Advance 4, which needed to be destroyed with hammers (right).
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In the selection screen of Super Smash Bros. Melee, characters are represented by artwork rather than 3D models, as they were in Super Smash Bros. In the game's data, unused animations for a scrapped 3D selection screen still exist. Below are Mario's and Luigi's "selected" poses.
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Officially licensed small plastic Super Mario Bros. folders from Japan with the captions "SPECIAL TIME WITH FIRE" and "GET FIRE!" The folders were part of a cross-promotion between Nintendo and Kirin FIRE, a Japanese coffee drink brand.
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A 1985 print ad for the Nintendo VS. System, a multi-game Nintendo arcade hardware, features 15 pictures of Mario with different appearances showcasing the various games. For "VS. Ladies Golf", a golf game with only female characters, a unique design of Mario as a woman is shown.
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In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the background of the Battleship Halberd Interior stage of Subspace Emissary contains panels with extremely small labels. Although the textures are very blurry, extracting them shows there are two labels reading "Mario", one "Peach" and one "Luigi".
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Segment from a 1991 Mario manga intended to teach the Japanese audience the English names and pronunciations of several characters from the Mario franchise.
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Photo of Shigeru Miyamoto alongside some of his original 1981 sketches of Mario's sprites for the Donkey Kong arcade, from Nintendo's 2011 company guide.
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A PSA about used battery disposal from a 1991 issue of the German Club Nintendo magazine. Mario says (translated, roughly) "Used batteries belong in the proper disposal containers and not in the environment!" Bowser replies "Just leave me alone!"
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Super Mario Advance 4's data includes unused victory poses for all forms of Mario and Luigi, intended to be displayed after beating a level. In the finished game, Mario and Luigi simply quickly walk offscreen after completing a level without striking a pose.
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Officially licensed 2019 T-shirt of Toad's sprite from Super Mario Bros. along with the caption "WHOO HOO! HAHAHA!" from Japan.
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While the microgames in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames can only be played in three difficulty levels, there is functionality in the code supporting even higher difficulties. Setting the level over 3 in "The Brush Off" results in the teeth cycling through colors of the rainbow.
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The first game crashing bug in Super Mario Maker 2 has been found. If the player character is facing the screen and holding an item while landing on Yoshi and a Fire Flower simultaneously (left), the game will crash on the next frame (right), freezing the Nintendo Switch.
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Parody scene of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past with Mario characters, featuring Mario as Link, Peach as Zelda, and Bowser as Agahnim, from a 1992 Mario variety manga.
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Mario reference in the Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit. Lerna Lotte, one of the characters hosting the game's tutorials, shows off her painting of Mario to decorate one of the Labo creations, the Toy-Con Motorbike.
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The Russian version of Super Mario Maker 2 may be hinting at additional rideable characters other than Yoshi to be included in the game in the future due to template-like wording of the Yoshi Clear Condition. Details can be found in the provided image.
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A rare misprint run of an officially licensed The Legend of Zelda Triforce light exists that can still be found in circulation. While the regular version of the light has the Legend of Zelda logo at its base (left), the misprint has the Super Mario logo instead (right).
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In the Super Mario 3D World style of Super Mario Maker 2, Skipsqueaks pushed by moving walls will attempt to jump over them to return to their default position. If unsuccessful, the Skipsqueak will become sad and accept the position it was pushed to as its new default position.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, Mario can perform a small spin by pressing A directly after catching Cappy in mid-air. During this animation, there is exactly one frame where both Cappy and Mario's regular hat model exist simultaneously, giving him the appearance of wearing two hats.
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The textures for the snow sculpture ground tile decorations for the New Super Mario Bros. U theme of Super Mario Maker 2, extracted from the game's files. At night, the snow pile turns into a Goomba and Peach turns into Luigi.
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In Paper Mario, the main hall of Tubba Blubba's Castle has an ornate ceiling (top) that can never be seen during gameplay, as all in-game scenes such as passing the upper corridor (bottom left) and the castle collapse (bottom right) have the in-game camera crop out the ceiling.
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In 1990, a truck toured Canada to advertise the 1990 Nintendo Challenge Championship, the first Canadian Nintendo video game tournament (top), sponsored by PepsiCo. The sides of the truck were decorated with original artwork of Mario smashing through a television (bottom).
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In Super Mario Galaxy, if during his battles, Bowser stomps in such a way that he hits a raised platform on the planetoid at a specific angle (top left), he will ricochet (top right) and continue flying off into space indefinitely (bottom), requiring the level to be restarted.
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As is widely known, the international version of Super Mario Bros. 2 is a graphical edit of a Japanese-only game called Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic. Almost all enemy artwork was left unchanged except for the Pokey: compare the American edit (left) to the Japanese original (right).
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In the SNES version of Mario is Missing, an animation for defeating a Koopa Troopa shows it being squished, then flying upwards. Although the sprite appears to be scaled dynamically by a graphical effect, the deformed frames are pre-made and exist in the code in this form.
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