All unique animated segments from the commercial for the Super Comboy, a version of the Super Famicom/SNES marketed for the South Korean market. Note the variety of characters from other franchises except Nintendo ones, such as Dragon Ball, Looney Tunes and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

While it has been long assumed that the choppy quality of the commercial was due to faults in the recording equipment on part of the person who archived the earliest known version of it, this high-quality version revealed that this is simply how it was animated, and the low framerate was likely a time or budget issue. Compare the choppy framerate on the singing characters with the smooth framerate of Mario peeking out from the curtain at the end.

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Rare officially licensed 1989 Mario vs. Luigi ladder race game. The aim is to tilt the ladders in such a way as to cause the Mario and Luigi pieces to latch on consecutive rungs of the ladder on the way down, with the first player to reach the bottom being the winner.

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Artwork of Geno wearing the clothes of the protagonist of Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, drawn by Super Mario RPG character design supervisor Kazuyuki Kurashima, who was also the character designer for Moon.

More references to Mario and particularly Geno that can be found in that game can be seen in these posts.

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In Super Mario Galaxy, whenever Mario enters the galaxy selection screen from an observatory dome, the screen appears to zoom out extremely far to show the surrounding galaxies.

However, internally, it is not only the screen zooming out, but the area Mario is in also shrinking. In its regular state, both the dome and the galaxies are loaded in at the same time, but the galaxies are set to be invisible as long as Mario is not on the selection screen.

The above animation shows the default state of the Garden dome with the galaxies visible, whereby they rotate slightly outside the playable area.

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Bizarre 2005 British print ad for Mario Power Tennis (please zoom in to see details).

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In Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, the Greenie ghost enemies that appear in the Jungle Exhibit room of the Treacherous Mansion use spears that are decorated with tiki masks (left). These actually depict Krazy Kalimba, the first Tiki Tak Tribe boss from Donkey Kong Country Returns (right).

On the original 3DS hardware, this is very difficult to see due to the screen’s small resolution, and even in Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, the darkness in the room makes the mask hard to see well (the brightness and contrast of the screenshot was increased for this post).

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“Mushroom Battle” is an exclusive mode in the Wii U version of Tekken Tag Tournament 2, whereby different kinds of mushrooms from the Mario series appear on stage and grant various effects to the fighters.

The music that plays is remixes of Mario series music. This post features “Mushroom Battle 2”, a remix of the Super Mario Bros. underground theme.

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Cover of an officially licensed Mario-themed English learning book for Japanese children, featuring various characters like a Dry Bones, a Hammer Bro and a Porcupuffer all saying “HELLO MARIO”.

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In Mario Superstar Baseball, chemistry is a stat that signifies how well characters get along with others on the team. Every possible matchup of two characters has its own chemistry value ranging from 5 (horrible) to 99 (perfect) attached to it.

Interestingly, despite characters one might readily imagine not getting along well (Mario and Wario, Peach and Bowser, Luigi and King Boo, etc.) having bad chemistry, none of the “obvious” rivalries and bad relationships have the worst possible chemistry value of 5.

This one is used only for the matchups between Peach and Petey Piranha, and between Toadette and Bowser. This must mean that in the minds of the developers, these two pairs of characters harbor exceptionally deep hatred for each other.

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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, enemies affected by the Confusion status effect have a 50% chance of performing a “confused move” whereby they either attack a fellow enemy or use an item on an unintended target, if they have one.

However, not all moves have a possible way to attack fellow enemies programmed in. For such moves, the enemy will simply do nothing instead if confused and that move is chosen. This raises no issues during regular gameplay, but can lead to humorous moments during boss battles.

Some bosses announce their moves before performing them. However, if the boss is also confused and hits the 50% chance of being affected by the confusion on that turn, the boss will simply do nothing despite having announced the move.

In the footage, Gloomtail shouts “MEGABREATH!” and then does nothing due to his confusion. This can be extended indefinitely, as he is always programmed to shout “MEGABREATH!” before his first successful Megabreath attack, but confusion can keep him from ever doing so, causing him to keep shouting it and doing nothing.

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