Original sketch for a frame of Balloon Mario from the production of the Super Mario World animated series. Due to the fact that his nose would be touching the bottom edge of the screen, the animators elected to not draw his mustache to save time.

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A bizarre visual glitch occurs in the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door whereby Goombella can be turned sideways.

In the Battle Master battle tutorial, whenever Goombella performs Multibonk, hits the first two Stylish commands, but not the first actual Action Command, she will turn clockwise slightly. This can be done indefinitely many times to make her do full rotations, as long as she never successfully performs an Action Command.

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2003 Japanese print ad for the GBA version of Donkey Kong Country.

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Concept art for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie.

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The skin texture used for the “Army” armadillo enemy in Donkey Kong Country was recently found, being a procedural texture called “phong1” from a commercial 3D asset collection.

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Unused dialogue found in the files of Mario Party 8 that was intended for a Little Mouser character that would sell the player a map of King Boo’s Haunted Hideaway. The Little Mouser would have talked in a whimsical rhyming manner.

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In Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, a glitch can occur in battles against Flounderflage enemies in Dozing Sands if they hit Luigi during a very specific frame of his jumping animation while he is at low HP.

If this occurs, Luigi will die, but Mario will not perform his usual “noticing Luigi is down” panic animation, nor will he pick Luigi up after the enemy attack is over. Instead, Mario will continue dancing forever with neither him nor the Flounderflages ever initiating another turn. The game will need to be reset to continue.

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Unauthorized 2007 Peach coin pouch from Japan. Despite not being officially licensed, this pouch is still sought after by collectors for its humorous appearance.

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In World B-3 of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (shown here in the Super Mario All-Stars version), there is a block that creates an unintentional secret power-up due to an oversight in the code.

The routine for a block causing a coin directly above it to be collected when struck from below overwrites the routine for spawning a power-up. As such, if the player simply hits the block from below while the coin is above it, the only thing that will happen is that the coin will be collected.

However, if the player first collects the coin to stop it from interfering with the routine, the block will actually spawn a power-up when struck, as it was originally programmed to do. This creates the illusion of a secret power-up that requires the player to do a specific non-intuitive action in order to spawn, while actually being the result of a glitch.

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In Mario Party 4, the main group of hosts (Toad, Shy Guy, Koopa, Goomba and Boo) are using the power of the mysterious Party Cube to celebrate the player characters’ birthdays, including gifting them presents. At no point during the game is any malice or selfishness attributed to their motivations.

However, the 2002 official guide for the game instead slanders several of the hosts by claiming that they are using the party as a front for obtaining money (ignoring the fact that it is the hosts themselves that give the players the money as part of the game to begin with) or that Boo’s minions steal from the players (ignoring that Boos only steal from players on behalf of other players, and do not keep the money or stars stolen).

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