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In a 2003 interview, Shigeru Miyamoto stated that he chose the sky color in the original Super Mario Bros. for being "purplish". This makes some versions of this sky in various games more accurate to his vision than others, depending on their hue. A comparison is provided below.
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Prior to the termination of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service, rarely, the message "The next match might have 13 players" could appear at the end of a race in Mario Kart Wii, even though the game supports only 12 racers.
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The Mario Characters Nintendo 3DS theme (top) is a remake of the earlier Mario Character Size Chart (bottom). Every character is either in a different pose or has updated shading, except for Birdo and Goomba, who were evidently not considered important enough to warrant this.
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In Super Mario Galaxy, Kamella's wand has a reflection not used by any other object in the game (left). Looking very closely at the orb, we can see it is actually reflecting the Nintendo GameCube logo (top right). Extracting the texture from the data confirms this (bottom right).
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In Super Mario Sunshine, Yoshi dissolves when he enters water. In the last few frames before this, his model undergoes severe deformation whereby he curls up and his head and hands become larger. After the hands have grown to roughly half of Yoshi's size, he disintegrates.
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In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Wario is immune to the sleep effect of Peach's Final Smash as long as he is riding his bike. As seen in the provided screenshot, Wario is able to freely move and attack Peach with his bike during her Final Smash animation.
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Promotional photo of Charles Martinet next to a cardboard cutout of official Mario artwork for Super Smash Bros. Melee, from the UK Nintendo Official Magazine.
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The prototype version of Donkey Kong 64 had highly exaggerated animations for Chunky Kong that were toned down in the final game. During his punching animation, his fist would briefly grow to roughly the size of his body.
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Unused Mario model found in the files of Mario Superstar Baseball. The model assigns a skin texture to Mario's mustache, hair, eyebrows and shoes.
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In 2005, Camelot, the developers of Mario Power Tennis, provided storyboard drawings of the game's intro (left) to the British Official Nintendo Magazine. Here is a comparison between the sketches and the frames of the finished in-game animation that they correspond to.
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The 1982 officially licensed Donkey Kong Coloring and Activity Book depicts Pauline as being a popular singer and performing on a stage, 35 years before this characterization is used in Super Mario Odyssey.
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Illustration of Mario and Bill Gates from a TIME Magazine article about the rivalry between Nintendo and Microsoft.
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If the Mario figure from the Super Mario 64 Question Mark Block LEGO set (left) is lost, it cannot be replaced with the included spare parts; however, they can be used to create a "capless Mario" (right), which may be a reference to how Mario can lose his cap in Super Mario 64.
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Officially licensed 1998 Donkey Kong padlock from Japan.
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Today, Super Mario Maker 2 was updated to v1.1.0, adding online friend play. Not detailed in the patch notes (only called "other issues fixed") is the removal of the Luigi prompt after dying twice in Story Mode. This was now replaced with a small Luigi icon in the bottom left.
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In Super Mario World, the controllable coin plays the P-Switch music when it is active. However, if Yoshi eats the coin while it is still active, the P-Switch music will continue playing indefinitely instead of running out as usual.
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The calico mother cat in Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury has a model that is optimized for sitting down (left). Although she can stand up, doing so reveals the deformed body and underdeveloped hind legs (right).
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A prototype version of Super Mario Kart contains a debug menu with some standard options and one separated from the rest, called simply "MARIO". Selecting "MARIO" will display all the racers looking at something off-screen and lock up the game.
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In Mario Party 3, computer-controlled opponents can be "baited" into stealing relatively low-value items to prevent them from stealing valuable items. All characters have a "favorite item" they cannot resist stealing, forcing them to waste their stealing items. Details in image.
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The character of Tubba Blubba in Paper Mario is based on a Norwegian fairy tale called "The Giant who had No Heart in his Body". In addition to the main premise, some other small details refer to the tale, such as the heart being in a well, or a key being needed to access it.
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A new hammer power-up introduced in Super Mario Maker 2 allows the player to break grey blocks (left). This could be an extremely specific reference to grey blocks exclusive to a single e-Reader level in Super Mario Advance 4, which needed to be destroyed with hammers (right).
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To fit the 256x240 pixel display of Super Mario Bros. into the 240x160 pixel resolution of the Game Boy Advance, the sprites in the Classic NES Series version of the game were adjusted to take up less vertical space. Here is a comparison of Mario's original and adjusted sprites.
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The long Fire Bars in Super Mario Bros. have a blind spot directly to their sides where they will not hurt Mario. Almost all of them are placed so that Mario can not stand in that spot, except for this Fire Bar at the end of Level 8-4 in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.
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Follow-up to the previous post: while it appears that the Super Mario Knife is indeed extremely rare, it has been confirmed that it was available for purchase in Japan. Below is a photo of the item. Thank you very much to readers @msoyu62k22 and @mamako0326 for the information!
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On the My Nintendo website, the user's Mii will be engaged in a random activity on the top of the page. One of them is painting (left); clicking the Mii will reveal one of 8 paintings that appear with varying rarities (right), 5 of which are related to the Mario series.
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