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Promotional 1994 Donkey Kong store display.
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Illustration of Mario, Pauline and Donkey Kong (alongside Q*bert) from the cover of a 1983 issue of Electronic Games magazine.
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Using a third-party turbo controller in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, it is possible to activate a Golden Dash Mushroom on every second frame as seen in the footage. The player will appear to drive at an extremely high speed due to the continuous boosting.
However, there is no actual difference in speed between doing this and simply activating the Golden Dash Mushroom about once a second. For each activation, the boost is sustained at a constant speed until it wears off instead of reaching the maximum speed with each button press and then wearing off linearly as one might expect.
The reason the footage appears so fast is purely due to the visual effects of blur and speed lines added with each button press. As such, using a turbo controller merely makes the character look faster instead of actually going faster.
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In Mario Kart World, the mission clear jingle is an arrangement of the ending of the race clear fanfare from Super Mario Kart.
In this post, the Super Mario Kart track plays until the point where the arrangement begins, whereupon it changes to the Mario Kart World track.
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The prototype version of Yoshi’s Island contained a unique death message that would be displayed on a black screen whenever Yoshi lost a life, simply reading “YOU LOST”.
It is possible that this was removed in the finished game due to concerns that this type of blunt statement of the player’s failure may be perceived as unfriendly. It was replaced with a “Try this stage again?” prompt in the final game.
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In WarioWare: D.I.Y., an Easter egg exists whereby naming a microgame or comic “Mario Paint” (spelled in this exact way) will cause an arrangement of the first background music of Mario Paint (also known as “Creative Exercise”) to play while editing it.
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Top: Mario Artist: Paint Studio for the Japan-only Nintendo 64DD add-on for the Nintendo 64 contains a variety of clip art, among them various images of hair.
Bottom: the bottom right hair is actually taken from a famous frame of Samuel L. Jackson is his role as Jules Winnfield in the 1994 movie Pulp Fiction. While the image has been touched up, many of the small shapes in the hair and locations of the highlights are the same, making it impossible for this to be a coincidence.
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Extremely rare official artwork scene for Super Mario Advance, seen on an officially licensed 2001 pencil case from Japan.
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