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An internal system used by Nintendo of America in the late 1990s was the “Manufacturer’s Authorized Returns Information Online” system, or “MARIO system”.
No details about its operation are known, but it is notable that Nintendo made efforts to give whimsical names even to parts of their operation that had no relation to the public and would not be appreciated by an audience.
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Top row: both Raccoon Mario (left) and Tanooki Mario (right) have distinct ringed tails. In Japanese, Raccoon Mario is called しっぽマリオ (Tail Mario), while Tanooki Mario is called the same, referencing the tanuki, or Japanese raccoon dog (an animal visually similar yet unrelated to the raccoon).
Middle: a raccoon. Note the ringed tail.
Bottom: a tanuki. Note the lack of rings on the tail.
Curiously, it appears that despite the original Japanese name of Raccoon Mario not referencing raccoons at all, his tail was in fact based on a raccoon tail instead of a tanuki tail. In addition, this also means that Tanooki Mario is not entirely based on a tanuki, and instead mixes the traits of both animals.
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It is the first in a new series of Supper Mario Broth streams!
Join me on the Supper Mario Broth Twitch channel as I thorougly explore, provide obscure facts on, and analyze the meaning behind indie cult classic Yume Nikki!
In Level 4-Ghost House of New Super Mario Bros., the large Balloon Boo enemies appear. One area contains two of them, one in a lower room and one in an upper room. The upper room can be reached from the lower one via a pipe, and the lower one from the upper one via a door.
With extremely unfortunate timing, it is possible to leave the lower room while a Balloon Boo is directly overlapping the door leading back to that room. The game will save its position, so that when Mario takes the door back, he will walk directly into the Boo and die instantly, as seen in the footage.
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Yoshi growing animations extracted from “Super Yoshi”, a cancelled version of the puzzle game Yoshi (originally for the NES) that was developed for the SNES, recovered in 2024.
Instead of using in-engine deformation functionality to make Yoshi grow, each frame in the sequences is a custom drawing.
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On the CD of the official Japanese soundtrack release for Donkey Kong Country 2, “Original Sound Version” is misspelled as “Originarl Sound Version” with an extra “r”. This error is not present on the cover or anywhere else on the packaging.
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According to a card from an officially licensed set of 1996 Super Mario quiz cards, Peach’s blood type is O positive, which is generally the most common blood type in the world, narrowly beating out A positive.
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Normally, whenever Lakitu rescues a racer in a Mario Kart game, he is supposed to drop that racer off in a safe location to continue the race from.
However, in Mario Kart 64, going out of bounds in Frappe Snowland in a specific spot will cause Lakitu to drop the racers into the river after rescuing them.
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