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In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, it is possible for the player character to become trapped by entering a tight space and then using a stored Elephant Fruit power-up.
Since the Elephant form is larger than the character’s default form, the character cannot exit the space the same way it was entered, and the level must be reset in order to continue playing.
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Pages from an officially licensed 1986 Super Mario Bros. coloring book from Japan.
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In the finished version of Luigi’s Mansion, lighting up a room in the mansion causes the music to no longer play, and instead Luigi to provide an ambience by whistling to himself.
However, in the pre-release versions of the game, there was dedicated music for lit rooms, which was likely removed due to potentially still creating a spooky atmosphere in what is supposed to be a safe location. This is a recreation of the music based on pre-release footage.
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In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, a variety of glitches can occur whenever Mario and Luigi clear a challenge in the middle of a battle. One of these is visual enemy displacement.
Note how the Capnap enemy that Mario and Luigi are attacking simply moves away while they continue with their attack, but then gets destroyed as though it was in fact attacked.
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On the Feast Layer in Donkey Kong Bananza, Donkey Kong must assemble the giant Banana Burger by pressing various switches in the level, each of which causes more toppings to fall onto the burger until it is completed.
Normally, there is no purpose in trying to interact with the burger before it is finished, as it contains no collectibles or points of interest in that state. However, if the player goes out of the way to fully destroy the burger before it is complete and then presses another switch, the toppings will be added as though the burger was still present.
Note how the toppings in the footage fall and stop in mid-air, since the game assumes that the burger underneath them would still be there.
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There are three different versions of the Japanese Donkey Kong arcade motherboard. On one of them, a glitch exists that makes it possible to skip the entirety of the 25m stage simply by performing a precise jump from the second platform, as shown in the footage.
Note how Mario actually wraps around from the bottom to the top of the screen (Mario’s head is on the bottom edge while his body is coming out of the top edge of the screen). Him being in the upper part of the screen is counted by the game as having reached the platform Pauline is on, causing Donkey Kong to abscond and the level to be declared completed.
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Splash page from an official 1992 Japanese guide for Super Mario Land 2.
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Official Donkey Kong Jungle Beat wallpaper available from the game’s Japanese website in 2004. Interestingly, it uses a Japan-only tagline for the game, “THE KING OF KINGS! DONKEY KONG IS HERE!”
It is theorized that a possible reason this tagline was not used outside of Japan is that “King of Kings” is a title used in the Bible to refer to Jesus Christ (e.g. Revelation 17:14).
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