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Design from an extremely rare officially licensed 1991 “Jettin’ Mario” T-shirt, featuring Mario on a jet ski surrounded by Super Mario Land enemies.
Ahead of him is a Gunion octopus enemy, above him is a Bunbun bee enemy, and behind him is a Yurarin Boo seahorse enemy (though spitting water instead of the usual fire).
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The Wii Phone (left), known from various speculative social media posts and videos around 2008, is not actually a completely original idea made by fans, but is rather based on a real patent filed for a gaming phone by Nintendo in 2001 (right), which of course never materialized into a product.
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1991 print ad for a Kool-Aid/Nintendo cross-promotion, featuring original illustrations of various Mario characters and Link.
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In Super Mario 64 DS, Wario’s unique ability is to be able to destroy black brick blocks, which contain some of the game’s stars. However, Yoshi can actually clip through any black brick block simply by collecting the 100th coin while above it and then performing a sideways somersault while collecting the star that spawns.
The block will be the correct distance away to be intangible when the star is collected (blocks in both Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS only have collision when the player character is very close to them) and collision is not turned on during the star obtaining cutscene, causing Yoshi to fall through the block and get the item or activate the switch (as seen in the footage) inside.
While a lengthy and cumbersome process to set up, this completely obsoletes the need for Wario.
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Previously, I have posted about a mysterious screenshot published by IGN in 2000 claiming to be a preview of a Yoshi game for the Game Boy Advance. While being unrealistic in terms of the smoothness of the graphics and usage of dynamic shadows, it was claimed to be sent in by “a Japanese correspondent”.
It has been discovered that the image was in fact taken from a mock-up in an issue of the Japanese Famitsu 64 magazine that was only recently scanned. While it was generally assumed that the picture was fake to begin with, this is finally definitive proof that it was never official.
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In 1986, Super Mario Bros. Special, a licensed version of Super Mario Bros. for the Japanese NEC PC-8801 and Sharp X1 home computers, was released by Hudson Soft. As was usual for new releases at the time, video game magazines ran print ads for the game for a few months after its release.
However, unlike the vast majority of print ads, this one was not merely reprinted every month, but kept continuously being updated to make Peach and Bowser more accurate to their artwork in other Mario games until they looked the most on-model in the final version of the ad.
Top left: initial version, with reversed dress colors for Peach and a unique lavender color scheme for Bowser.
Top right: first revision, Peach’s dress fixed, Bowser now mostly orange with his head being green on top, but parts of his arms and his eye area still being lavender.
Bottom left: second revision, Bowser almost entirely fixed, though his eye area is still lavender.
Bottom right: final revision, lavender color completely removed from Bowser, though his eye area and forehead are different shades of green.
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