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Super Mario 64 contains a famous glitch called “Zombie Flying” whereby if Mario obtains a Wing Cap and then loses all health, falling into a cannon without touching the ground first, he will be able to fly around with 0 health since internally, flying is a state that makes Mario immune to death. Only when he lands will he actually perform his death animation and be ejected from the course.
A lesser-known aspect of this glitch is that if Mario performs a Ground Pound onto a block that contains a Power Star during this, he will die during the star’s appearance animation, causing a conflict due to the two events that should never happen together occuring simultaneously.
This will cause the camera to become stuck in its wobbling state it normally assumes when Mario dies, but Mario’s death animation will never complete. Instead, the scene in the bottom image, with Mario unable to move or to truly die, will simply last forever until the game is reset.
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Extremely rare promotional Nintendo DS Mario and Peach-themed rhinestone stickers.
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Sample finished design found on Nintendo’s official page for Mario no Photopi in 1998, featuring a Yoshi from Yoshi’s Story.
Mario no Photopi was a Japanese-only Nintendo 64 title, functioning similar to Mario Paint with an ability to draw and edit images, with an additional ability to import and export image files via a proprietary memory card system.
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Nintendo of America’s 2020 accolade trailer for Paper Mario: The Origami King includes a unique humorous scene where instead of simply overlaying the accolades over regular game footage (as is standard for such types of trailers), the review scores are inserted as actual in-universe objects into the scene of Mario and Olivia relaxing in a hot spring.
Then, Olivia comments, “Ohhhhh… Yeah, I get it now.” which in-game is simply a response to the relaxing properties of the water, but in this scenario appears to be her response to the review scores.
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Super Mario Sunshine famously contains “Kug”, a normally unseen Goomba sprite in a unique art style that can be found out of bounds underneath Pinna Park. It is stationary and does nothing except shock Mario if he clips underground and touches it.
However, an unused object exists in the game that is called “TypicalManager” which continuously spawns a different type of Kug. These Kugs simply move slowly across the ground and are neither harmed by Mario nor can harm Mario themselves.
Given the name of the object, this was likely used to test “typical” enemy behaviors, such as walking.
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Top: the Backward-Facing Golden Mario Statue was a peculiar recurring visual element of the Japan-only Satellaview service for the Super Famicom, appearing both in Mario games for it as well as regular content that was not itself Mario-related.
Bottom: the pixel art of the statue was actually modeled after a real-life object, which was shown in some Nintendo promotional videos in the late 1990s.
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