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Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga contains a Christmas tree-themed hermit crab named Hermie III as a boss (top). This is likely to be a reference to the Japan-only RPG Tomato Adventure, released one year prior by the same developer AlphaDream, which contains a similar enemy (bottom).
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Concept art of Mario in a wrestling outfit for the unreleased Super Mario Spikers, a volleyball/wrestling hybrid game planned for the Wii.
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In Super Mario World, Yoshi can begin eating a Berry during Mario's death animation. However, the game is unable to handle both Yoshi's eating animation and the death animation at the same time, so it simply freezes instead.
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One of the first concept sketches of Donkey Kong for the Donkey Kong arcade, drawn by Shigeru Miyamoto.
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The antagonist of the Game & Watch version of Balloon Fight is an anthropomorphic amphibian called "Oiram Repus", which is "Super Mario" spelled backwards. As there is no apparent connection or resemblance between the two, the reason for the reference is unknown.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, if glitches are used to have a follower character with Mario when Flavio asks him to go see Cortez, then after Flavio announces that he will lead and protect his crew, he vanishes into thin air. The game then continues without him.
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Officially licensed Mario alarm clock. Unlike most clocks that use cartoon characters' arms as clock hands, this one does not display Mario's full body, instead choosing to make his arms emerge from his head.
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In Super Mario Galaxy, the model for Peach's Castle's reflection in the lake is an edited model of the castle with dark, dramatic shading and pillars of light emanating from the windows. Here is how the scene would look if the actual castle was replaced by the reflection model.
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The code for Super Mario World contains a level display mode where one of the background layers is made translucent, giving the settings a ghostly quality. The mode is fully functional and requires changing one byte per level to activate.
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In 2016, Nintendo published a gift coupon book in PDF format on their website (top). Decompiling the PDF shows that instead of raster images, it contains the original vector versions of Mario character artwork, which can be further separated into its constituent layers (bottom).
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Despite Mario games being officially localized into Russian since 2011, Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games contains the only instance of the "Mario" logotype being translated into Russian as well.
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Artwork of Blooper from Mario Tennis Aces uploaded by Nintendo to their official LINE account. The artwork is presented as having been drawn by the account's green Toad mascot, Kinopio-kun.
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Sue from Cave Story+ dressed as Princess Peach for the Halloween event.
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Additional information: the plush is actually an officially licensed 1994 Yoshi's Safari plush of Mario with a Super Scope, as seen below. Miyamoto is covering up the gun in the photo.
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A bizarre game crash occurs in the Japanese version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door where Mario must be twisted up to destroy a block. Twisting him up all the way works as intended, but attempting to save a little time by only twisting him up slightly crashes the game.
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In 2007, this set of Super Mario Bros. postal stamps was released in Japan. The stamp depicting Small Mario contains a small inaccuracy, as Mario's hat's brim is 1 pixel shorter than the in-game sprite. Another stamp depicts Small Fire Mario, which is impossible without glitches.
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The Star at the end of the Battle Belt Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy 2 is inside a dome that must be opened with a key. By crouching and spinning on top of the dome, Luigi can collect the Star inside without unlocking it, as the game was not designed around Luigi's larger hitbox.
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In Super Mario 64, removing the darkness at the bottom of the hole in the Rolling Rocks room in Hazy Maze Cave reveals that it is directly above Dorrie's underground lake. A death plane was placed in the hole to prevent Mario from falling through into the lake.
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Whenever Bowser wears his wedding suit in Super Mario Odyssey, his hat covers his hair and horns. However, the hat is too small to be covering them fully. This is masked by simply removing his horns and the top of his head in his wedding suit model.
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Mario drawn by Shigeru Miyamoto in 2003.
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Actor in a Bowser costume with the recording crew at the set used for the North American commercials for Mario Superstar Baseball.
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Thwomp from Wario's Woods: Burst of Laughter Version for the Satellaview, a special edition of Wario's Woods that replaces many of the graphics in the game with caricatures of Japanese celebrities.
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In rooms with horizontally sliding blocks in Super Mario World, a glitch gives Mario's Cape Spin a special power. Performing a Cape Spin while getting an item from the reserve box will give an "area effect" to the spin, killing enemies that are further away from Mario.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, the sign on top of the hut in Gelato Beach appears differently between the Japanese and North American versions. Looking closely at the signs, the stylized runes spell out the respective name of the beach in both versions, "Mamma" and "Gelato".
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In Super Mario Galaxy, the moon in Deep Dark Galaxy is only seen from one side, being fully lit (left). However, it has an unseen dark side that can be used to simulate moon phases by rotating it (right). This suggests it was intended to be more significant during development.
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