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Nintendo of Europe's official German guide for Donkey Kong 64 claims that Tiny Kong is in charge of the taxes and finance of Donkey Kong Island.
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In Super Mario RPG, the mine cart minigame is perfectly capable of playing itself. If the player leaves once the game starts, it will complete itself in 3 minutes and 24 seconds.
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Officially licensed Boo bean bag chair. The chair is 96 cm (ca. 3 feet 2 inches) wide and deep, and 71 cm (ca. 2 feet 4 inches) tall.
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In Luigi's Mansion, after scanning the dresses in the Wardrobe Room, Luigi briefly considers wearing them before deciding against it.
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The earliest known 3D model of Bowser, seen in a 1986 NES commercial.
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Nintendo's official site for the Game Boy Advance version of Donkey Kong Country specifically pointed out that Donkey Kong has deep, dark and charismatic eyes.
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Datamining Miitopia reveals that some Yoshi colors and a Toad color are referred to differently internally at Nintendo than they are called publicly. Light Blue Yoshi is Sky Blue Yoshi, Blue Yoshi is Vivid Azure Yoshi, and Purple Toad is actually Fuchsia Toad.
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The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book reveals that the reason Cappy's eyes are red is because originally, his irises were intended to make the shape of the "M" emblem of Mario's hat whenever he smiled (left). In the finished game, this concept was discarded (right).
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Artwork from a 2002 website for a Super Mario Sunshine promotional campaign at Best Buy.
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While many birthday celebrations are seen across the Mario series, very few of them had a date given alongside them. Here are the very few characters whose birthdays have been given specific dates in official or licensed sources.
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The Italian version of Mario Party 9 introduces a visual pun absent from all other languages. In Italian, the "Reverse Minigame" event is called "!ocoiginiM", which is literally "Minigioco!", Italian for "Minigame!", spelled backwards to show it has been reversed.
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In Super Mario Galaxy, Luigi will cower and shake when ghosts are nearby. However, moving the camera to see his face during this reveals that he is smiling.
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Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon contains an unused cutscene that consists of E. Gadd going through every single animation he has, for several minutes, while saying only "missing loc string", over and over.
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The high-polygon model of the New Donk City taxis in Super Mario Odyssey, which has 5306 triangles, compared to the low-polygon model, which is over 36 times simpler at 144 triangles. The model on the right is used for the flying taxis and the ones driving on distant bridges.
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In Super Mario Maker 2, if a Giant Mechakoopa is placed into a pipe, it will assume a unique front-facing sprite for a few frames while emerging from the pipe. Here are the front-facing Mechakoopas in all four game styles where they are available.
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In Super Mario 64, if Mario both activates a Power Star and collects a different Power Star in the same movement, he will be stuck holding a small Power Star forever, forcing the game to be reset.
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In Mario Kart: Double Dash, there is a smooth transition between the rocky and grassy parts of the slope on the DK Mountain track (left). However, in Mario Kart Wii's version of it, this was not included, resulting in the border between the textures becoming very abrupt (right).
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Limited edition officially licensed 2021 Super Mario designer kimono from Japan.
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In Chapter 5 of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the S.S. Flavion is attacked by ghosts, causing the crew to panic (left). Two of the crew members (the innkeeper and one sailor) are not programmed to have a panicked expression and thus continue smiling during this scene.
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A PSA about used battery disposal from a 1991 issue of the German Club Nintendo magazine. Mario says (translated, roughly) "Used batteries belong in the proper disposal containers and not in the environment!" Bowser replies "Just leave me alone!"
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With the release of Luigi's Mansion 3, the Mario, Wario and Luigi sub-franchises all featured games where the most common/basic enemy had a name starting with "Goo" (Goomba, Goom, Goob). How much of this is an intentional reference and how much is coincidence is unknown.
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Extracting the graphics of the Punch-Out microgame from WarioWare: Smooth Moves reveals it is run in a window with some black pixels in the corner. These match up with the interface of an unofficial emulator, meaning the developers used it to emulate Punch-Out (details below).
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Some copies of the European Spanish manual for Super Mario Bros. contain a bizarre error where the pictures for Bowser, Princess Toadstool and the Jumping Board are switched around, labeling e.g. a picture of Bowser as "Jumping Board".
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In the Forest Secret Area in Super Mario World, jumping on a flying platform causes the background to scroll. However, jumping back onto the starting area does not stop the scrolling. This results in a visual effect where the entire landmass appears to accelerate through space.
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In Super Mario 3D World, the Blockstepper enemies are always seen wearing soldier hats; however, they are fully modeled underneath. By removing the hats in a model editor, we can see what a "civilian" Blockstepper would look like.
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