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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, there is a starving family in Twilight Town who ask Mario for food. However, they are picky and reject a variety of food items (middle) by saying "I don't think that's edible." Despite this, they will happily eat dried flowers (right).
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Extremely rare "Ask me about Banana Bucks" pin, worn by Nintendo-associated game store employees in March and April 1995 during the Banana Bucks redemption campaign, which allowed customers to collect Banana Bucks by buying Donkey Kong games and redeem them for merchandise.
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In the "Key-pa-Way" minigame in Mario Party, unique enemies called Spike Koopas appear. As the camera is fixed during the minigame, it is impossible to get a closer look at them in-game. On the right is the Spike Koopa model extracted from the game, viewed from several angles.
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The kiosk demo for Mario Kart DS only had a few playable tracks, but contained unused early versions of additional tracks. The early version of Delfino Square features a fountain depicting a Yoshi spewing out water. This was changed to a Pianta statue in the finished game.
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Often, a game's code still contains its internal project name, used by the developers before the release name is finalized. Below are some of the internal names of Mario games found in their data; note how Nintendo seems to use the keyword "Red" often to refer to Mario.
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After activating a combo in the SNES version of Wario's Woods, an energy orb appears and refills Birdo's time gauge. The sprite used for the orb is exactly the same as the Roto-disc enemy from Super Mario Bros. 3, only with a different palette. This connection is never explained.
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The path of the World S map in Super Mario Galaxy 2 is shaped like the letter "S". While this is likely a coincidence, World S is the only world named after a letter and has the only path that goes back and forth, making it possible that the shape was a deliberate reference.
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In 2009, an officially licensed figurine of Luigi tipping his hat, based on a promotional render, was released in Japan. While most modern licensed Mario series figurines strictly adhere to the proportions of the original model, this one features arms of visibly different length.
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In Super Mario 64 DS, if Yoshi eats a baby penguin, it will say it doesn't taste good (middle). However, the penguin has a second message in the code, calling Yoshi a monster that eats naughty kids (right); there is no known way to activate it in-game (shown here with hacks).
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In some games, Miis can wear Mario character costumes. Viewing the costumes where the Mii's head is inside the character's mouth without the Mii (not usually possible in-game) shows they have the inside of their mouth modeled, looking like screaming versions of the characters.
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To comply with Korean gambling laws, the Korean version of Super Mario 64 DS removes the Rec Room minigames, which contain casino games. This is done in the simplest manner possible by just removing all NPCs related to the minigames. Left: international versions, right: Korean.
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Paper Mario: The Origami King features a place called Shroom City, which is reached via a boot-shaped car. Mario Party Advance also has a Shroom City, traversed by boot-shaped car. As Mario Party games are not usually referenced outside the series, this could be a coincidence.
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Neither Super Mario Odyssey nor any of the available guides for it contain a map of the Deep Woods area in the Wooded Kingdom. I have created the world's first comprehensive map of the Deep Woods. More on the process at the Supper Mario Broth Patreon: patreon.com/posts/41149874
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Super Mario 64's original release featured an asymmetrical M emblem on Mario's hat, the only instance of this in a 3D Mario game. Now, with the release of Super Mario 3D All-Stars, the emblem was retroactively changed to be symmetrical, equalizing its appearance across all games.
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In the vast majority of Donkey Kong's models, his default stance (T-pose) has him slouch, like a real gorilla (left). The Mario & Sonic series is unique in that its Donkey Kong model stands up completely straight (middle). This causes his tie to clip into his chest (right).
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The original concept for Glydon in Super Mario Odyssey (left) was to be a unique member of the Waddlewing species from New Super Mario Bros. U (middle) with a fear of heights. The reference was decided against and Glydon is an original species in the finished game (right).
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Mario Tennis for the Game Boy Color features artwork of Luigi with the longest legs he has ever had in official media (left). I have taken modern 2D artwork of Luigi (middle) and edited it to show what he would look like with the same proportions as the Mario Tennis art (right).
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Custom Spiny Shell traffic sign in front of the headquarters of Bergsala AB, Nintendo's Swedish distributor, in Kungsbacka, Sweden. The street the building is on is also called "Marios gata" ("Mario's Street").
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The character "Walouie" from Super Bomberman 5 could be a reference to Boshi from Super Mario RPG, which released 2 years earlier, due to a high number of similarities. Details in image.
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The "Wanted" minigame in the Chinese version of New Super Mario Bros. contains a second, unused set of sprites based on the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 3. I have created a mock-up of what the game would have looked like with them. Left: used, right: unused.
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In the mirror room in Peach's Castle in Super Mario 64, Mario's reflection does not automatically match Mario's model quality. Thus, at certain specific distances from the camera, Mario will use his high-polygon model while the reflection will use the low-polygon model.
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Designs for unlicensed amiibo reproduction cards using NFC chips to simulate amiibo functionality. To avoid copyright issues, the cards use artwork that merely resembles the character of the original amiibo instead of outright depicting it.
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Due to the Goomba's Shoe item being known as "Kuribo's Shoe" at the time of Super Mario Bros. 3's release, an issue of Nintendo Power calls a Shoe Goomba "Kuribo's Goomba". As "Kuribo" is the Japanese name for Goomba, this translates to "Goomba's Goomba".
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The Japanese demo version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door includes more content than can normally be seen. If a Peach cutscene is accessed, Grodus's model is revealed to be missing. Instead, he appears as the small dialogue window star (left: finished game, right: demo).
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I apologize for an error in the previous Tweet. I have been informed that the object Wario turns into is not a copy of the Final Destination sun, but an original sun-like object made up of Wario-Man particle effects. The original Tweet was deleted; a corrected version is below.
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