1701
In a room in Bowser's Castle in Paper Mario, Goombario suggests there may be an attack item hidden in the room. However, there are no items of any kind in the room. As all of his other hints of this kind are correct, this can mislead players into wasting their time searching.
1702
1981 concept art sketch for the Donkey Kong arcade, drawn by Shigeru Miyamoto, showing Mario being hit with a barrel from behind. This was shown exclusively in a Discovery Channel documentary on the history of video games.
1703
In Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Luigi can reach one of three sizes upon completing the Snack Basket special attack. At the smallest size, the "L" on his hat is missing, with the emblem being blank.
1704
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, there is an error in Mario's "wedding" costume that results in a hole between the model's shirt and trousers, through which the inside of the model can be seen. Although the model originates in Super Mario Odyssey, no such error is present there.
1705
Often, video games that want to despawn an object will wait until it is slightly off screen to do so. A particularly notable example is in the Rambi Rumble level in Donkey Kong Country 2, where King Zing will instantly disappear if he is even a single pixel outside of the screen.
1706
In Super Mario Bros. 3, entering quicksand with a flying power-up and flying back out will cause Mario to not assume his flying sprite as long as he is moving upwards. Depending on whether he flies straight up or to the side, he will appear to stand or walk in mid-air.
1707
In the data of Super Mario Maker, early unused sprites of the Stretch enemy can be found in three of the four game styles. The sprites suggest they were intended to have two states, like regular Boos. This was later added to the nighttime Ground theme in Super Mario Maker 2.
1708
Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door start with Parakarry delivering a letter (left). Zooming out the camera in both games after he leaves the screen shows that he never actually exits the scene, instead merely hiding behind a tree or the letterbox bars (right).
1709
In the Bonus Mode of Mario Party 5, Boo is playable in the Ice Hockey minigame. All characters playable in that minigame wear ice skates; however, due to Boo having no shoes to attach the skates to, they are just two blades floating under him.
1710
Mario Artist: Paint Studio for the Nintendo 64DD contains a render of Gruntilda from Banjo-Kazooie that is posed differently from renders in official Banjo-Kazooie material, resulting in official Banjo-Kazooie content that is exclusive to a Mario game.
1711
The Boo in Peach's Castle in Super Mario 64 can be influenced from its adjacent rooms. Touching the wall in the Whomp's Fortress room will make it turn around, while coming in from the second floor and touching the wall in the Cool, Cool Mountain room will make it disappear.
1712
In Super Mario Odyssey, Tostarenans are never seen without their ponchos that obscure the shape of their bodies. With a model editor, we can see what their bodies would look like without the ponchos. Note that they have no necks; the skull is simply floating above the torso.
1713
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga was released in Japan four days after its North American release. Despite the short time frame, changes were made to the Japanese version, such as Bowser's side view being changed to make Bowser slightly thinner and give him fuller hair and a smile.
1714
In Peach's Castle in Super Mario 64, by repeatedly touching the left wall in the Whomp's Fortress room and then checking the hallway with the Boo, the Boo will eventually seemingly disappear. However, the Boo is not gone; it is actually displaced to the darkness beyond the door.
1715
In Level 6-1 of Super Mario Bros. 2, if Pokeys are led off a cliff, they will continue floating in mid-air (top left). Although the game received two remakes in Super Mario All-Stars (top right) and Super Mario Advance (bottom), this issue was never fixed.
1716
Comparison of the sprites used when Luigi takes a photo in Mario is Missing. Left: SNES version, right: PC version.
1717
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, hitting an overworld enemy with Bobbery, switching to another partner and entering a Shadow Sirens battle on the next frame after fleeing will have the other partner perform Bobbery's attack instead. Here, Vivian is shown exploding.
1718
In a section of Flipsville Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy 2, Chomps can be seen rolling by through a window (left). Moving the camera inside the building (right) reveals that unlike the regular Chomp model, these particular Chomps have no visible teeth separation.
1719
The beta version of Mario Kart 64, titled "Super Mario Kart R" during development, was intended to feature a Magikoopa, presumably Kamek, as a playable character instead of Donkey Kong. Here are all existing images of the Magikoopa from that version in the best quality available.
1720
Boo's Boneyard Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy consists of a main cave area, and this small bone planetoid Mario starts off on (left). Very far away from that planetoid, surrounded by empty space, is a single unobtainable Star Bit (right, see distance to area in upper right corner).
1721
After a prolonged period without major game appearances, the Koopalings were redesigned for their return in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. While this changed mostly body proportions and hair, Larry Koopa is notably the only Koopaling who lost teeth in the redesign, going from 4 to 2.
1722
According to a 2015 interview in Edge Magazine, renowned skateboarder Tony Hawk's favorite video game outside of his own series of skating games is Super Mario 64, and it has had an influence on the design of the Tony Hawk games.
1723
A 1994 Wario's Woods manga's final battle (left) is against Luigi possessed by Fauster, an evil jester boss (top right). This predates a similar scenario, where Luigi is possessed by the evil jester Dimentio for the final battle in Super Paper Mario (bottom right) by 13 years.
1724
Extremely rare artwork of Yoshi holding a snowball decorated to look like an apple (left), found only on a billboard at the 2015 Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan. The artwork is an edit of the artwork used on the cover of "With Yoshi" (right), a Japan-exclusive Yoshi art book.
1725
Annoyed and saddened expressions of Mario series characters in Fortune Street.
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