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Top: Luigi’s house as it appears in Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon/Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD is actually the Rank D mansion from the ending of Luigi’s Mansion, achieved by getting anywhere between 50,000,000 to 59,999,999 G in the ending.

Bottom left: compare the house to the mansion at it is seen in the game to see it is clearly intended to be the same building, with the same style of windows and other architectural features.

Bottom right: however, the Luigi’s Mansion remake for the Nintendo 3DS actually retroactively destroyed the reference by changing the design of the Rank D mansion, which now has different windows, and only one much larger chimney.

The game itself presents its plot as “replacing” the original one using time travel (in the remake, E. Gadd from the future, during the events of Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, sends Gooigi back to the past). It appears that in the 3DS version of events, this now leads to Luigi’s house now no longer appearing the same way, so that Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon cannot happen in the same form as before. The implications of all this on the timeline on the series are unclear and can only be speculated.

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Pages from an officially licensed 1985 Super Mario Bros. activity book from Japan (please zoom in to view details).

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In Mario Kart 8/Deluxe, the idle animation for characters is subtly sped up on the Electrodrome track to sync up with the music. Note Larry moving his head faster on the Electrodrome (left) than on Mario Kart Stadium (right).

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Unique illustration used for an officially licensed 1986 Super Mario Bros. jigsaw puzzle from Japan.

Note the blue Goombas; this appears to be an early instance of depicting the blue underground palette of Goombas seen in this game in official artwork. Later, these would become Gloombas, a separate subtype of Goombas, in the Paper Mario series.

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In Super Mario Bros. 3, if this Question Block in World 1-Airship is hit when it is passing a precise point on the screen, a glitch will occur whereby the block will become invisible and bouncy.

The bouncing will apply both to the power-up released from it as well as Mario himself, as seen in the footage.

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Top: in Super Mario World and Super Mario Run, Fishin’ Boos are enemies similar to Fishin’ Lakitus, except they have a flame that hurts Mario at the end of their rods instead of a lure like the Fishin’ Lakitus do. While at first this appears to be simply a combination of the concepts of fishing and ghostly fires such as will-o’-the-wisps, there is a possibility it is actually inspired by a real type of fishing from Japan.

Bottom: cormorant fishing is a tradition in Japan and some other countries such as China whereby trained cormorant birds are used to catch a type of fish called sweetfish. The fishing is done at night, where a basket of flaming wood is swung over the river to cause the sweetfish to start stirring from their sleep, which allows the cormorant to attempt to catch them.

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Normally, touching a goal or goal-equivalent collectible in Mario games (such as a Power Star) always counts as succeeding in completing a level or mission even if the character would have died otherwise such as e.g. by his health depleting at the same time, in the interest of being fair to the player.

However, Super Mario Galaxy is an exception in its timed missions. If the player character touches a star at the exact time the timer runs out, the star collection animation will begin to play, but the character will still die, as seen with Luigi in the footage. Note how the star starts moving the same way it would have if the victory animation were playing normally.

This will not count as collecting the star and the mission will have to be attempted again.