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“Stabs in the Dark” is an unlockable minigame in WarioWare: Twisted, being an infinite version of the “Stab in the Dark” microgame, whereby the player is tasked with tilting the samurai’s sword to deflect incoming attacks.
If the player is skillful enough to somehow reach 900 points, the minigame will reach its maximum speed, where samurai will continue attacking at a rate of 6.7 samurai per second. The game will then announce “You got it!” after the 999th samurai, then send one last 1000th samurai and auto-quit itself.
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Development files for The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening contain early sprites for the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 2. Among them is an early sprite for Peach in the ending where she seems overly excited or even shocked about winning.
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Top: the German name of the PC edutainment game Mario’s Early Years: Fun with Numbers (known in the UK as “Mario Teaches Sums”) is “Marios Rechenkünste” (“Mario’s Calculation Skills”).
Bottom: however, on the game’s language selection screen, this is humorously misspelled without the second “n” as “Marios Rechenküste”, which translates to “Mario’s Calculation Coast”.
Fittingly, the screen does depict an ocean with an island, which one could imagine to be the titular “Calculation Coast”. It is even possible that the artist tasked to make the logo graphic misread the original title as this but saw nothing wrong with it specifically due to the screen making the “coast” interpretation sound plausible.
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In the Bumper Balls minigame in Mario Party, if two players are both about to fall off the platform, but one of them turns around and is bumped back by the other one, that character will fall through the platform, as seen with Wario in the footage.
This is due to the game considering all players that have crossed the boundary of the platform to have already lost, so it simply removes their ability to interact with the ground at that point.
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Due to an error, it was at one point briefly possible to earn free money with a Yoshi game.
On January 8, 2020, an error in the pricing system at Target caused download codes for Yoshi’s Crafted World to be offered at a price of one dollar. In addition to getting the game, players were also able to claim 300 Gold Points, which could be redeemed for a 3-dollar discount on other purchases, essentially gaining 2 dollars worth of free money as a result of the transaction.
While thousands of users were able to get the game at this price, the error was noticed a few hours later and corrected, with any further codes being unable to be redeemed.
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Top: on the Mushroom Bridge track in Mario Kart: Double Dash, several whirlpools can be seen in the water, such as in the top right corner of the image.
Bottom left: as the water is out of bounds, the whirlpools are far away and seen at an angle, making it difficult to discern any details; in addition, they move rapidly. Looking at a still image of a whirlpool from directly above, we can see that the wave pattern actually includes many small stars, which is very difficult to see in-game.
Bottom right: extracting the textures used for the whirlpool from the files confirms this, showing the stars clearly.
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Top: in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the Wonder Effect in the “Upshroom Downshroom” level causes the background to darken, the foreground element to start glowing, and many elements to start moving around rhythmically to the music.
Bottom: however, an unused early version of this Wonder Effect can be found in the game’s files. Here, it was simply a variant of the silhouette Wonder Effect used e.g. in the “Muncher Fields” level, except with some of the level elements glowing in the dark.
This was likely unused due to the trees in the background completely obscuring the foreground in silhouette view, making navigation very difficult. Note how in the footage, the player uses Fire Toadette’s fireballs to light up the path; a player without any means of producing light would need to walk through these segments completely blindly.
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