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In the Daisy’s Field Day minigame in Super Mario Party Jamboree, it is possible for a player to become stuck indefinitely between two other players if they occupy both the platform that player jumped from as well as the one jumped to, while the player is in mid-jump.
The footage showcases this being done to Bowser Jr. While CPU opponents would eventually move on and resolve this situation, human players with malicious intent (as is the case with Wario and Rosalina here) can remain in those positions until the timer runs out.
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In 1986, an official guide called “Family Computer Game Strategy Secret Techniques” was published in Japan. It contained a type-in program for the Family BASIC add-on for the Famicom, which allowed the customer to program small games on the console in the BASIC programming language.
The program is “Dungeon & Mario”, an RPG-type game using Mario assets included with the Family BASIC, whereby Mario can move around a dungeon and defeat enemies with a rudimentary stat system.
This is technically the first time a game that could be described as a “Mario RPG” was published, if printing the code in a book is counted as publishing a game in this sense. Unfortunately, the game is extremely slow, as seen in the footage, due to the limitations of the Family BASIC. It takes a very long time to just load in the dungeon, and Mario moves slowly while taking breaks after each tile.
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Top: the Big Donut is a battle course first featured in Mario Kart 64. While its name refers to donuts in all languages, the source code of Mario Kart 64 lists a different name for it in a comment, being “BA-MU”. This is an abbreviation of “バウムクーヘン” (Baumkuchen), a German cake that is popular in Japan.
Bottom: a Baumkuchen for comparison, which the course resembles very strongly.
While naming the course after the cake would have been a recognizable reference for Japanese audiences, it is possible that it was named after a donut either because the cake is not that well-known worldwide, or because of a preexisting association of donuts with the Mario Kart franchise such as the Donut Plains tracks from Super Mario Kart.
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