Concept art for a unique turtle-themed airship design for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie. The finished movie contains no such vehicles at all.

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Top: in Super Mario 64, catching the lower Ukiki in Tall, Tall Mountain will cause it to steal Mario’s hat (another way to cause it to have the hat is to let the wind blow it off Mario’s head, then leave and re-enter the course). Normally, it will try to dodge Mario by jumping to make catching it and retrieving the hat difficult.

However, it is possible with very unfortunate positioning to cause it to jump over Mario into the water, as seen here.

Bottom: doing so will cause the Ukiki to become stuck underwater, where Mario’s grabbing will no longer be able to pick it up. This makes the hat irretrievable on that visit to the area, with the player needing to either leave and then re-enter the course or to complete the secret slide to try again.

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Promotional photos for an officially licensed 2014 Wiggler plush.

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The Markup Sticker is a humorous item from Super Mario Party Jamboree that can be used on a player to double the price that player must pay for Stars and items on the next turn, suggesting that shops all collude to gouge that specific player on that turn.

However, the internal name for that item is even more humorous, whereby it is called “inflation”. This suggests that instead of the prices simply being marked up as a malicious sales tactic, that player is hit with a localized instance of economic inflation instead.

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In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, at one point during the plot, Mario, Peach, Toadsworth and Prince Peasley are waiting for Luigi to fall down from the sky in a specific spot. Peasley shows that he has retrieved the Beanstar briefly by holding it in his hand.

However, in the prototype version of the game, Peasley’s “holding an object” sprite has not been implemented yet, and as such, a graphical error occurs where he briefly turns into a shocked green Mario instead.

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Short animation of Bowser gaining a Mario hat and pixelated glasses with the caption “DEAL WITH IT”, posted on Nintendo of America’s official Twitter account for Mar10 Day in 2016.

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Splash illustration from a 1997 Super Mario 64 manga.

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[Warning: loud sound]

In Donkey Kong 64, the Tag Barrel features five musical themes, a different one playing for each Kong while that Kong is selected. Internally, the game is actually playing all five themes simultaneously in five different sound channels, and merely fading between them when switching Kongs.

Here is what the actual music sounds like as played back by the program, with all five channels audible simultaneously.

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Officially licensed 1988 Super Mario Bros. metal garbage can, featuring unique artwork of a Goomba and a Cheep Cheep (close-ups provided).

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A patent was filed by Nintendo in 2011 for the car-based board movement used in Mario Party 9, titled “Game device, game method, non-transitory storage medium encoded with computer readable program for controlling game device, and game system, allowing for fun in tactics and enhanced zest of game” [emphasis added to indicate the main theme covered by the patent].

The patent documentation featured “generic” versions of four Mario Party 9 characters in its illustrations. The short and tall figures with round noses and hats most likely represent Mario and Luigi, while the princess character clearly represents Peach or Daisy.

This leaves the rabbit-ear hat character, whose simplistic face could be a stand-in for Toad, who is playable in that game. While the character most resembling this one from the Mario series would be Nabbit, Nabbit did not yet exist at the time the patent was filed.

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