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In the licensed version of Mario Bros. for the PC-8801 home computer, known as "Punch Ball Mario Bros.", failing to get any coins during a bonus round results in this screen that simply says "Mario." over a picture of Mario being displayed.
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Sprite of Yoshi feeding his cat, extracted from the Sentence World word suggestion images in the educational SNES game Mario's Early Years: Fun with Letters.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, glitches can be used to let Flavio follow Mario for the entirety of the game. Scenes not originally intended to have Flavio then exhibit "Flavio omnipresence" whereby instead of physically entering the scene, he is already always there.
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In Super Mario 64, it is possible to sleep inside Bowser. Mario's post-damage blinking invincibility continues indefinitely while he is inside an enemy, and Bowser turns around in the same spot forever as long as Mario is inside his hitbox. After a while, Mario will fall asleep.
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Extremely rare officially licensed eraser of Chained Kong from Super Mario RPG. Chained Kongs and Guerrillas are uncommon prisoner-themed enemies in the game that use Donkey Kong's design. A limited run of erasers based on the game's more obscure characters was made in 1996.
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The 1994 CD-ROM re-release of Mario's Time Machine, known as Mario's Time Machine Deluxe, features the only appearance of Bowser's mother in a Mario game. She is a librarian in charge of the game's reference texts.
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Box of limited-edition 1996 Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats for a Super Mario 64 cross-promotion, featuring unique artwork of the penguins from Cool, Cool Mountain.
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Development files for Super Mario World contain graphics for a scrapped, extremely small creature that appears to have been called "One-Character-kun", or "Mr. One Character", referring to it being the size of a single character of text (8x8 pixel tile).
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The final victory screen from Mario Kart Wii contains an easily missable detail: Toad and Toadette holding hands. This is the only time they have been shown holding hands since the introduction of Toadette 15 years ago.
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Officially licensed Mario T-shirt from Japan depicting a swarm of Boos with the caption "HORRIBLE TIME".
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In the Chinese version of Paper Mario: The Origami King, the Toads in the Hole Punch battle shout phrases in English due to the Hole Punch being disco-themed and disco being associated with the United States around the world. Example phrases are shown below.
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Before the final battle in Super Mario Odyssey, Bowser has various reactions to Mario based on the outfit he is wearing. One of them is the "scared" reaction, which he has to the six outfits shown below. This suggests that each of them contains some aspect Bowser is scared of.
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It is commonly known that in Cool, Cool Mountain in Super Mario 64, Mario can drop the two baby penguins off a cliff. However, by using exploits, it is possible to cause the two adult penguins to fall off cliffs as well, allowing Mario to dispose of all penguins in this manner.
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While most Mario artwork since 2000 is available in high resolution due to being distributed digitally to journalists, there are exceptions. This Super Mario 64 DS artwork of Wario throwing Luigi is exclusive to a single guide and no high-resolution version of it was ever found.
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Officially licensed Mario boxer shorts.
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Previously, I posted about an extremely rare Super Mario 64 DS render of Wario throwing Luigi that was only available at a low resolution. I was finally able to track down a high-quality version of it in a French magazine, allowing a clearer look at the render for the first time.
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Artwork of a Winged Yoshi in a unique style, found in the official 1992 Japanese guide for the puzzle game "Yoshi" for the Famicom.
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In Donkey Kong Country 2, a Klobber enemy that is dropped into lava does not actually die. Instead, it is teleported so far up that it takes 3 minutes for it to fall down. If the player waits in that spot for 3 minutes, the Klobber will fall down from the sky.
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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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Every black hole in Super Mario Galaxy contains an image of Mario in Beach Bowl Galaxy, filtered and distorted beyond recognition alongside its outer edge.
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In Super Paper Mario, O'Chunks treats Peach less roughly in battle than the male player characters, not tossing her as hard, dealing less damage to her, and waiting politely for her to get back up when she falls down. Details in image.
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Unique high-resolution Super Mario RPG render of Mario from the back, exclusive to a 1995 Mario-themed special issue of the Japanese Family Computer Magazine.
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The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book reveals that early concepts for New Donkers were centered around Mario's sense of alienation in the big city. To convey this, the designs were made uncanny such as the people being transparent or missing their faces partially or completely.
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Normally, Mario's mouth in his models is centered on his face (left). However, one Super Mario Run render moves Mario's mouth to one side of his face (middle). Using the eye as a reference point, we can create a mock-up of what this model might look like from the front (right).
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In Level 3-1 of Super Mario Bros. 2, there is a shortcut beyond a gap that Luigi and Peach can clear easily, but Mario and Toad can't. However, even they can access it: the decorative clouds have secret functionality where they can support Mushroom Blocks to bridge the gap.
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