976
The largest number of Bomb Boos Mario can swing around at the same time in Super Mario Galaxy is 6.
977
Promotional photos from a 2005 event organized by Nintendo of Japan to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Super Mario Bros., featuring Mario and actress Shoko Nakagawa in a party setting.
978
Extremely rare "Happy Bowser" plush toy, available as one of the main prizes in 1992 Super Mario World-themed claw crane game machines in Japan.
979
In Super Mario Sunshine, Mario leaves footprints in the sand, up to 20 before they unload (left). This has been upgraded to 255 prints in the Super Mario Galaxy games (middle), however, Super Mario Odyssey drastically lowered the limit to only 12 footprints at a time (right).
980
Nintendo of Europe's official German guide for Donkey Kong 64 claims that Tiny Kong is in charge of the taxes and finance of Donkey Kong Island.
981
Tatsumi Kimishima, former president of both Nintendo of America from 2002 to 2006 and Nintendo of Japan from 2015 to 2018, alongside Mario and Sonic in 2002.
982
The trailer for Super Mario Maker 2's 2.0 update features white birds flying away from the Master Sword. This may be a reference to the box art of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, depicting a similar scene (exclusive to the box; the birds are not present in-game).
983
A 1990 licensed Japanese guide for Super Mario World depicts Yoshi with an extremely large saddle/shell that, in some cases, gives him an appearance close to that of a Koopa Troopa.
984
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985
Step-by-step illustration of the process of creating a render of Mario's model for Super Mario RPG on a Silicon Graphics workstation, from a 1995 issue of the Japanese Family Computer magazine.
986
In Super Mario Odyssey, Mario has a unique finger-snapping animation when next to the trumpet and guitar players before recruiting them (left). After the band is formed, he will only perform his regular dance (right) and the snapping can never again be seen on the same save file.
987
In Yoshi's Island, when Baby Mario touches a Super Star to become Powerful Mario, Yoshi temporarily becomes an egg (left). A 1995 Yoshi's Island manga proposes the explanation that the star grants Baby Mario Yoshi's abilities so he turns Yoshi into an egg himself (right).
988
Storyboard for a scene where Mario tries to ambush Bowser with a gun in the 1989 direct-to-video anime Super Mario Momotarō, alongside the same shots from the finished animation. The story is a loose adaptation of the Japanese folk tale Momotarō, or "Peach Boy".
989
In the data of Version 2.0 of Super Mario Maker 2, the Ninjis have accurate sprites for riding all ridable objects, except Yoshi, who is depicted as a generic wagon. Alongside a previous hint from the Russian text of the game, this suggests more ridable characters coming later.
990
Mario Kart Tour's low-polygon models, used for racers far away from the camera, have the lowest-resolution facial textures of all 3D Mario games to date, at 10x10 pixels.
991
Due to a bug in Version 2.0 of Super Mario Maker 2, objects stacked on a Spike are weightless. A Spike weighs as much as a Fire Flower, and behaves correctly when stacked on other objects, but if it is on the bottom of the stack, the entire stack weighs as much as one Spike.
992
A 2007 Dr. Mario manga contains a very specific reference to Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door while being unrelated to the actual game. For one panel (left), Peach's Castle is drawn in the style of the storybook drawings from the game's intro (right).
993
In the Look Away minigame in Mario Party 2, whenever one of the team players fails to look in a different direction from the single player, their head will shrink. While unlikely, it is possible to fail 5 times, causing the head to be minuscule (see DK to the left of Mario).
994
Normally, the reflection in the mirror room of Peach's Castle in Super Mario 64 mimics Mario's movements perfectly. However, if Mario crawls towards one of the pillars, he will crawl up the side of it, while the reflection remains of the floor, breaking the synchronicity.
995
The packaging for the 1993 licensed "Radio Boy" features partial original artwork of Yoshi listening to the device. Using the source for the unmodified image (the 1993 game Mario & Wario), I attempted to restore the full version of the artwork.
996
In the final shot of the credits of Super Mario Odyssey, Mario, Peach and Pauline appear next to each other (left). They are placed at slightly different distances from the camera to mask their size discrepancies. Actual relative sizes of their models can be seen on the right.
997
Behind-the-scenes photo of the Peach mascot costume used in the Australian commercial for Mario Party 4 being fitted during its design phase.
998
Unlicensed "Star Wario" T-shirt from Haiti, featuring a joke based on Darth Vader's famous line "I am your father" from Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back.
999
While most 3D games model the buttons on Mario's/Luigi's/Wario's/Waluigi's overalls as discs (left), the Mario & Sonic series has, since its beginning, modeled them as spikes embedded in their bodies. On the right is a model from Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
1000
Promotional photo from a 1997 campaign by Nintendo of Europe in Germany that featured Mario teaching children about road traffic safety. Participants also received limited edition Super Mario bike helmets, as worn by the girl in the photo.
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