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In Luigi's Mansion, Professor E. Gadd's head is, for an unknown reason, defined as an icy surface. Normally, Luigi cannot move around in maps where E. Gadd is present; but if cheats are used to make him stand on E. Gadd's head, he will shiver from the cold.
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The NES manual for Wrecking Crew provides illustrations of Mario trapped in "hopeless cases" with "no escape". The only way to resume playing in these cases is to press Select; however, the manual does not mention this and instead acts like there is nothing the player can do.
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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.
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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.
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The Donkey Kong arcade has rudimentary copyright protection where the game crashes if it detects changes to the title screen copyright. However, it only checks the "INTEND" part of "NINTENDO", so that changing the first or last letters results in the game working normally.
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Waluigi-themed Valentine's Day card downloadable from Nintendo of America's official site in 2019.
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Extremely rare officially licensed 1998 Wing Mario plush from Germany.
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When Super Mario Bros. 3 was released, all Koopalings except Ludwig were named after musicians that were still living at the time. Now, only the namesakes of Iggy and Larry remain alive.
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The foyer of Princess Peach's castle in Super Mario 64 has exactly 120 banisters, matching up with the number of Power Stars in the game. An exact count is provided, with the banisters being grouped in tens where possible. Whether this is intentional is unknown.
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1999 Christmas poster from the German Club Nintendo magazine. Note that the Pokémon characters were not part of the original drawing and were quickly pasted in before release due to the unexpected success of the franchise in Germany in the final months of 1999.
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The color change the beacon of the Comet Observatory in Super Mario Galaxy undergoes as it is powered up resembles the real-life color change of a star as it becomes hotter. As many parts of the game are based on real astronomic knowledge, this is very likely intentional.
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Mario Golf: Advance Tour contains eight unused "chicken rooms" which appear as eight identical dark voids, each of which contains a single chicken.
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Mario Superstar Baseball stores graphics for text pop-ups as individual letters. The letters are displayed in correct order in the files, but due to duplicate letters not being needed, the texture sheets appear to be misspelled versions of the actual messages. Examples below.
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A series of 1986 Super Mario Bros. manga featured a design for Princess Peach that was roughly based on her sprite as seen at the end of Super Mario Bros. (insert, middle).
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In Super Mario Sunshine, when Mario turns around while balancing on a rope, he will make a brief "whoa" noise. However, if the Control Stick is held perpendicularly to the rope, Mario will continuously make these noises while remaining completely still.
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Normally, if a video game becomes unresponsive, it needs to be reset. However, in Super Mario Advance 2, a glitch exists that makes the game unplayable for only 3 hours, after which it automatically fixes itself and continues as though nothing happened. Details in image.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, it is FLUDD that makes Mario take damage when falling from great heights. While not wearing FLUDD, Mario can fall from any height unharmed. When wearing it, he will take fall damage instead.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, each kingdom has its own local variety of birds, with the ones in the Luncheon Kingdom being extremely round. The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book reveals that they are actually skinny birds coated in salt, showing a scrapped mechanic to knock the salt off.
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New Super Mario Bros. contains code for a "Chain Cerberus", multiple Chain Chomps attached to the same post. Instead of being merely unused, the code is designated forbidden since the game deliberately executes a game-crashing function called OS_PANIC when it is loaded.
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In the code of Super Mario Strikers, the unlockable robotic Super Team has a cryptic comment calling them the "only thing mattering right now". What this might mean is unknown.
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In the 2000's, a number of extremely unergonomic officially licensed Mario USB mice were released in Japan. According to customer reviews, these are nearly unusable due to hurting the user's hand.
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The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book is notable for providing insight into how the concept artists at Nintendo simplify Mario's shape when inserting him into artwork, by including many examples of low-detail Mario sketches.
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One of the only existing photos of the 1996 limited edition French Wario soda.
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The Japanese official guide for the puzzle game "Yoshi" for the NES/Famicom contains a joke segment that talks about how Yoshis look different in various countries. It gives examples of Indian Yoshis (left), American Yoshis (middle) and Japanese Yoshis (right).
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In Mario Kart Wii, each vehicle has seven stats (speed, acceleration, drift etc.), which are each modified depending on the chosen driver. By analyzing all driver-vehicle combinations, it is revealed that the one with the highest stat total is Baby Peach riding the Quacker.
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