2026
Design from an extremely rare officially licensed 1991 Mario T-shirt.
2027
In Super Mario 64, collecting a star above an updraft will cause Mario to float in the wind indefinitely as control is taken away from the player, preventing Mario from escaping the updraft. The only actions the player can perform are moving the camera and turning off the game.
2028
The code of Mario Kart DS contains ASCII artwork of the Small Mario sprite from Super Mario Bros., constructed using four different byte values standing for different colors. The original sprite has been superimposed over the relevant part of the code for demonstration.
2029
For the British commercial for Super Mario Sunshine, 22 seconds of live-action footage of people with Mario mustaches were prepared, but only 5 seconds were actually used in the finished version. Below is the unreleased full commercial, including the 17 seconds of deleted scenes.
2030
The data for Super Mario Strikers includes a text file called flushfile.txt, which contains nothing but the word "flush".
2031
In Super Mario Galaxy, the model for Peach's Castle's reflection in the lake is an edited model of the castle with dark, dramatic shading and pillars of light emanating from the windows. Here is how the scene would look if the actual castle was replaced by the reflection model.
2032
Development files for Super Mario World contain sprites for Mario moving towards and away from the camera. He does so by assuming a unique transitional state between Small Mario and Super Mario, which is shown here in the middle alongside the two standard forms.
2033
Mario Golf: Advance Tour contains eight unused "chicken rooms" which appear as eight identical dark voids, each of which contains a single chicken.
2034
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, the Starshroom appears near Starship Mario after reaching Spin-Dig Galaxy. However, even before that, one of the Toad Brigade members is already present: Banktoad can be seen floating in mid-air above Starship Mario from the beginning of the game.
2035
Donkey Kong 5: The Journey of Over Time and Space was an unauthorized 2001 clone of Super Mario Bros. Deluxe that replaced Small Mario with Diddy Kong and Super Mario with Donkey Kong. A rare 2003 reprint of the game featured a new title screen reading "SUPER MARRIO SUNSHINE".
2036
In the vast majority of his appearances, the default pose of Petey Piranha's model has a slightly open mouth, similar to how his appears when idling. However, for unknown reasons, in Mario Kart: Double Dash his default pose has him open his mouth extremely wide.
2037
Clay Luigi figurine submitted anonymously to Nintendo Power in 2008. The Nintendo Power staff dubbed it "Homunculuigi".
2038
In the Bowser's Fury mode of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, positioning Plessie on specific spots on slopes will cause him to continuously oscillate between two angles, appearing to shake rapidly.
2039
The Chinese version of New Super Mario Bros. Wii replaces the character icons with high-definition textures. For an unknown reason, the texture for Luigi's icon is squished and the game runs special unsquishing code at runtime to make it display properly on-screen.
2040
In Super Mario 64, if Mario is eaten by a Bubba fish enemy while surfing on a Koopa shell, the Bubba will eat only Mario and leave the shell floating on the surface of the water.
2041
The US version of Diddy Kong Racing contains an inaccessible Japanese language setting in the files. If the code is modified to activate it, it is revealed that all it does is replace text with the word "Japanese" in English.
2042
Only known screenshot of an area of an early version of Big Boo's Haunt from the 1995 pre-release build of Super Mario 64, which exists only in immensely low quality. This is the only known area not present in the finished game for which no higher-quality imagery is available.
2043
Previously, I have posted about an extremely rare officially licensed 2016 T-shirt from Japan depicting a swarm of Boos with the caption "HORRIBLE TIME". That was only one of a set of limited edition "HORRIBLE TIME" shirts; the designs of the other two are shown below.
2044
On the title screen of Mario Paint, clicking the "R" plays a sound. That sound is actually a voice saying "Odnetnin", or "Nintendo" backwards. The footage below first plays the clip normally, then reverses it, and finally slows it down to hear the original "Nintendo" voice.
2045
In a 1996 interview, Mario Kart 64 director Hideki Konno stated that the game was originally intended to have a "serious mode" without items, to appeal to hardcore racing fans. However, nearly all playtesters chose to play with items instead, leading to the mode being scrapped.
2046
A Mario reference was made in episode 270 of the Doctor Who TV series, where the Doctor describes a situation with "it's like Super Mario figuring out what's going on, deleting himself from the game because he's sick of dying."
2047
Between the releases of the original Japanese version of Super Smash Bros. and the international versions, Mario and Luigi have been made slightly taller, while Kirby has been made slightly shorter. These are the only characters whose sizes are location-dependent.
2048
In Super Mario 64, if Z is pressed on the frame Mario touches a Koopa shell, he will not ride it, and instead the background music will restart from the beginning. Note the Bob-omb Battlefield music intro replaying whenever Mario crouches in the footage.
2049
When Bowser attacks Peach's Castle in the beginning of Super Mario Galaxy, the Toads start panicking. However, some Toads remain loaded outside the playable area who continue their cheerful festival animations. Note the sounds of destruction and screaming Toads in the background.
2050
In Donkey Kong Country 2, if Dixie lands on Rambi while performing a helicopter spin and B is pressed on the next frame while Y continues being held, the properties of the helicopter spin will be transferred onto Rambi, allowing him to float through the air.
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