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Promotional image of a Thwomp mug available as a prize in a Japanese lottery in 2018.

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Thursday, October 30, 2025
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In Mario Kart World, the mission clear jingle is an arrangement of the ending of the race clear fanfare from Super Mario Kart.

In this post, the Super Mario Kart track plays until the point where the arrangement begins, whereupon it changes to the Mario Kart World track.

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The prototype version of Yoshi’s Island contained a unique death message that would be displayed on a black screen whenever Yoshi lost a life, simply reading “YOU LOST”.

It is possible that this was removed in the finished game due to concerns that this type of blunt statement of the player’s failure may be perceived as unfriendly. It was replaced with a “Try this stage again?” prompt in the final game.

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In WarioWare: D.I.Y., an Easter egg exists whereby naming a microgame or comic “Mario Paint” (spelled in this exact way) will cause an arrangement of the first background music of Mario Paint (also known as “Creative Exercise”) to play while editing it.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
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Top: Mario Artist: Paint Studio for the Japan-only Nintendo 64DD add-on for the Nintendo 64 contains a variety of clip art, among them various images of hair.

Bottom: the bottom right hair is actually taken from a famous frame of Samuel L. Jackson is his role as Jules Winnfield in the 1994 movie Pulp Fiction. While the image has been touched up, many of the small shapes in the hair and locations of the highlights are the same, making it impossible for this to be a coincidence.

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Extremely rare official artwork scene for Super Mario Advance, seen on an officially licensed 2001 pencil case from Japan.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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Top: in an interview with Ted Woolsey, the localizer of Super Mario RPG, he mentions originally wanting to name the boss Punchinello “James Bomb” as a reference to the James Bond franchise, but that was forbidden by Nintendo due to copyright concerns.

Middle: in the finished game, Punchinello still references James Bond by saying “The name’s Nello… PUNCHINELLO!”, similarly to James Bond’s catchphrase, “The name’s Bond, James Bond”.

Bottom: even that indirect reference was apparently considered to be too risky by the game’s Nintendo Switch version, where it was excised completely. This is the line it was replaced with.

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During the eight mission of Gelato Beach in Super Mario Sunshine, the level is filled with Red Cataquacks that harm Mario in addition to tossing him into the air. If Mario becomes cornered by a Cataquack into one of the concave parts on the bottom of the mirror-bearing pillars, he will be stuck in the “being tossed” animation and become unable to escape until he dies.

To add insult to injury, even though Mario is already doomed in this scenario facing only a single Cataquack, another Cataquack may join in as seen in the footage.

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Original illustrations of Bowser attacking Mario, Peach and Toad’s picnic and eating all their rice balls, from an officially licensed Mario picture book from Japan.

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Monday, October 27, 2025
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Promotional image for Fire Emblem Heroes used on Nintendo’s official Japanese LINE account, featuring Kinopio-kun, the former green Toad mascot of the account, inserted into the image.

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