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In Paper Mario, if no input is made during the Peach interludes for 60 seconds, Peach will yawn and stretch (middle), before falling asleep 15 seconds later (right). Note that in this game, this behavior is exclusive to Peach; Mario will never sleep.
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While the character section in Game & Watch manuals usually attempts to be detailed (Super Mario Bros., left); the Mario the Juggler manual is unusually succinct and has the following description for Mario: "Mario Juggles."
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In Super Paper Mario, Count Bleck never removes his top hat (left). However, by unloading the texture for the hat, we can see what he would look like without it (right). Removing the hat also makes it clearer that his visible eye and monocle are slightly misaligned.
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Until now, it has been assumed that the "avoiding eye contact" render was the rarest version of the Mario Party Koopa Troopa artwork; however, an even rarer one was discovered in a German magazine. The renders, along with descriptions, are presented sorted by rarity in the image.
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The intro to the North American version of New Super Mario Bros. Wii starts with the message "Today is Princess Peach's birthday!" (left). For an unknown reason, this was changed in the European version to sound less enthusiastic (right).
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Officially licensed 1992 Japanese plush of the Mega Mole enemy from Super Mario World. The toy interprets the light coloration on the sprite's cheek, likely intended to be simple shading (left), as blush marks instead (right).
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Food served at an official Mario café that was open for a limited time in 2015 in Tokyo. Shown here are Super Star omelettes, a Warp Pipe soda decorated with a strawberry Piranha Plant, and a pixel art latte in the background.
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Luigi's Mansion (left), Luigi's Mansion Arcade (middle) and Luigi's Mansion 3 (right) all feature King Boo making a distinctive sound imitating Luigi's Poltergust. As the arcade is a retelling of Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, this retroactively covers all 3 main series entries.
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For many years, the only Dry Bowser plush available was unlicensed (left), in some cases using fake official-looking tags. In March 2020, the first officially licensed Dry Bowser plush will be released (right). Here is a comparison for potential buyers to avoid being deceived.
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A pre-release screenshot of Paper Mario shows a bed without a blanket (left). In the finished game, all Toad House beds have blankets (middle). By modifying the game's code, we can see what Mario sleeping in the bed would look like if the blanket were removed (right).
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In Super Mario Odyssey, the Lake Kingdom is populated by the female-only Lochladies (left). The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book states the original concept for the Seaside Kingdom population was male counterparts to Lochladies called Mermen (right). These were replaced by snails.
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Bowser Jr. almost never wears any clothing outside of his bandana. His "Dr. Bowser Jr." model used in Dr. Mario World has a removable coat and shell, allowing an unobstructed view of him in regular clothing from all sides.
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Officially licensed 1990 bottle of Mario shampoo from Japan. The bottle has six sides and features four segments that can be rotated relative to each other to create mashups from six different illustrations of Mario characters.
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A Japanese print ad for Super Mario Bros. 3 shows an obscured pre-release screenshot of a sky level that has a gradient effect on top of the screen, absent from the finished game (left). I have attempted to recreate the gradient inside a level from the release version (right).
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In Super Mario Odyssey, New Donkers become increasingly more transparent the closer they are to the camera, making it impossible to closely examine their faces in-game. Extracting the models from the data, we can see their faces in maximum detail.
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Behind-the-scenes photo taken during the filming of the North American commercial for Super Mario Advance 2 in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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The North American version of Yoshi's Island has two versions: 1.0, available at release (left), and 1.1, introduced several months later (right). Unlike usual revisions, which fix glitches, this one contains only one change: the font in the message boxes was made thicker.
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The Goomba's Shoe pouch sold exclusively at the Nintendo Tokyo store features unique official artwork of a Dry Bones holding up a white flag after being shattered by Mario's shoe.
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In Super Mario Bros. 2, strategically placing Potions allows picking up more than 9 coins per level. This will cause the coin count at the roulette to roll over to using letters. Collecting even more coins with cheats causes the display to go through all graphics in the game.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, when Mario jumps out of water, droplets fly off his body. This is not merely a graphical effect; they actually dissolve Goop. The droplets can be used to skip most of the Goopy Inferno mission by creating a path from the river through the Lava Goop.
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In the intro to Super Paper Mario, Mario's house from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door appears with a black outline (left). This is not the result of a new shading method; instead, the outline is simply drawn separately around all objects to line up with the camera (right).
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Left: Game Freak designers Shigeki Morimoto and Junichi Masuda holding props from the commercial for the Japanese-only Mario & Wario. Middle: the commercial. Right: since this was one of the last games Game Freak developed before Pokémon, it is referenced in Pokémon Red and Blue.
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The amount of animation frames for Luigi in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team (including where Mario is part of the sprite, such as when Luigi holds Mario) is the highest for any character in any Mario game, with 14836 individual frames. Below are all of them, at 1/13th the resolution.
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In Luigi's Mansion 3, when Luigi uses the Burst move, his Poltergust raises him into the air by its straps (left). However, when Gooigi performs the Burst, we can see that his Poltergust is instead attached to him by a solid mass of goo, being part of his body (right).
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The oldest existing Princess Peach figurine, released in Japan in 1985. It was commissioned using only the original box art for Super Mario Bros. as a reference.
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