2051
Due to widespread disagreement over the nature of the Underwhere in Super Paper Mario and the exact mechanism behind Mario being sent there, the previous Tweet can no longer be considered factual and thus has been deleted. I apologize for any undue speculation on my part.
2052
At the 1995 Winter Consumer Electronics Show, Nintendo's booth featured Virtual Boy stations offering demos of Mario Clash. The stations displayed a different name for the game, "Mario Smash". This is the only documented instance of this name being used.
2053
Behind-the-scenes photographs of Rare using Silicon Graphics workstations to render Rambi the Rhino for Donkey Kong Country, from GamePro magazine.
2054
Goombas with animal-like paws and ears from a Spanish print advertisement for Super Mario Bros. 3. It is possible that this is an artistic interpretation of Paragoombas and the ears are intended to be wings.
2055
Regarding the most recent tweet: I have been informed by Twitter user @D3rachi about an existing high-resolution version of the Toad render in question, making the tweet factually incorrect. The tweet in question has been deleted.
2056
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, the background of Bowser's Galaxy Generator appears to be a gigantic castle hallway (top left). However, this is merely a perspective trick. The hallway and columns are not 3D models, but instead merely a texture covering the inside of a large sphere.
2057
In 1990, a truck toured Canada to advertise the 1990 Nintendo Challenge Championship, the first Canadian Nintendo video game tournament (top), sponsored by PepsiCo. The sides of the truck were decorated with original artwork of Mario smashing through a television (bottom).
2058
All color schemes of Referee Mario from Mario Tennis for the Nintendo 64, viewed in the in-game debug mode. Referee Mario never wears his blue hat with his green jacket.
2059
American Mario from a manga based on Super Mario Bros. 2, which is known as Super Mario USA in Japan.
2060
Two of the microgames in WarioWare: Twisted involve serving drinks to a person in a dark room. The Japanese version (left column) takes place in a city at night and serves colorful cocktails; this was changed to milk and cola during daytime in the American version (right column).
2061
Left: Bowser's hurt sprite from Super Mario World. Right: the same sprite from the game's Game Boy Advance remake, Super Mario Advance 2. As you can see, Bowser's arms have been recolored, he has been given extra fingers, and his mouth was made to open slightly more.
2063
Regarding current events: I will continue posting my usual content as long as Twitter remains operational. If it doesn't, all content I would normally have posted on Twitter will be posted *in addition to my usual Tumblr content* on my Tumblr account: tumblr.com/suppermariobro…
2064
In the SNES version of Mario is Missing, one frame of the animation of Luigi crossing the road while riding Yoshi is heavily distorted, likely due to being created using a scaling algorithm and not drawn by hand as the other sprites.
2065
The early beta build of Super Mario 64 playable at the 1995 Japanese Shoshinkai trade show featured a minimap of the course displayed in the top right corner of the screen. While scrapped in the finished version, the minimap was included in the remake, Super Mario 64 DS.
2066
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga contains an unused background in its files that uses graphics from Wrecking Crew for the NES. I have superimposed a battle scene from the game onto the background to showcase what it may have looked like in-game.
2067
Normally, Mario and Luigi's irises are exactly the same size (top). However, in Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure, Dr. Mario's irises are much smaller than Dr. Luigi's. In addition, Dr. Luigi has specular highlights (shines) in his eyes, while Dr. Mario's eyes do not reflect light.
2068
In Tetris DS, the bottom screen of Puzzle Mode displays a static background of Yoshi looking at the player (top). However, the background is actually made of two parts: an unseen base image of Yoshi looking the other way, which is then covered up with a separate layer.
2069
Artwork from the bottles of the two different varieties of officially licensed Super Mario Bros. shampoo.
2070
In 2007, a committee compiled a "game canon" consisting of the ten most important video games of all time, which was used as the foundation of the video game collection at the United States Library of Congress. One of these games was Super Mario Bros. 3.
2071
During the event in Chapter 7 of Paper Mario where Mario must tell Bombette apart from imposters, a shadow can be seen on the floor behind Mario. That shadow belongs to the actual Bombette, who is still following Mario around; merely made invisible as a development shortcut.
2072
Giant Game Boy and SNES decorations, including a Super Mario World cartridge, from the 1994 Consumer Electronics Show.
2073
In Super Mario RPG, it is possible to enter what is supposed to be a one-way pipe from Land's End to Kero Sewers from the wrong end with exploits. Doing this reveals that the developers foresaw this and gave special dialogue for this scenario to the Shy Away enemy in the area.
2074
In Yoshi's Cookie for the SNES, defeating all four characters in VS. mode unlocks a set of what the game calls "new versions" of competitors. Note that the green Mario-like character is explicitly not Luigi, but a "new version" of Mario.
2075
Illustration of children failing to catch a Baby Yoshi from the British N-Force magazine.
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