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“Wario Busters” is a Mario & Wario-themed arcade game that presumably released in 1994 in Japan, where the aim was to throw balls at Wario.
Outside of a promotional image in a trade magazine, no evidence of the game’s existence has surfaced, and no actual physical units are known to exist.
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The person voicing Funky Kong in the Japanese dub of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon series has both an extremely fitting appearance and name for the role, going by the stage name Banana Ice and being known for wearing sunglasses.
In addition to voicing Funky Kong, Banana Ice was also the composer for the Japanese opening theme for the cartoon.
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In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, if the player is using the Invisibility badge when meeting Bowser Jr., he will have unique dialogue for this in each of his encounters, mostly involving him not seeing the player and Prince Florian but still somehow feeling their presence. Here are all the special Bowser Jr. messages for this scenario.
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A Super Mario World manga (left) contained a four-panel gag whereby the Pokeys moving in a parallel manner on the platforms in the Groovy level could stack if all of them had only heads left after Yoshi eats their other segments. This would then create a Pokey made out of four heads.
While this appears to be merely a joke scenario, it is actually achievable in-game, though in a slightly different manner than simply leaving each Pokey as a head. Instead, one Pokey needs to be left with 1 segment, another with 2, a third with 3 and the last with 4. Then, they will all overlap each other in such a way that only the heads are visible, appearing to be a Pokey made purely of heads.
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Top: the credits to Mario Kart Wii consists of two parts; the first being a cinematic sequence of the racers doing a lap around a unique sunset version of Luigi Circuit that ends with the camera panning to the sky, and the second being a clip collection of various tracks.
Bottom: strangely, moving the camera to see what happens to the racers when the view normally pans up at the end of the first part reveals that only the player racer (the one who the player won the Grand Prix prior to the credits as) continues driving normally, while the rest of the racers suddenly and violently swerve to the right and crash into the border of the track. It is unknown why this occurs.
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Joker cards from an officially licensed 1999 Mario Party 2 deck of playing cards from Japan, featuring Pirate Bowser and Pirate Wario.
All the other cards in the deck have standard faces with no Mario imagery. Curiously, this is one of the few times officially licensed Nintendo playing cards used unique images seemingly cropped from gameplay instead of relying on preexisting official artwork.
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A humorous visual glitch with Rosalina’s galaxy display can occur exclusively in the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario Galaxy.
Top: how the display is supposed to look like under normal circumstances.
Bottom: however, if during a cutscene of Mario landing in front of Rosalina after a mission and a new dome being unlocked, the player mashes through all the dialogue at maximum speed in this version specifically, the maps and labels on the display will be tiny instead.
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The Donkey Kong Bananalysis stream continues!
Please join me as I point out details and provide obscure information about Donkey Kong Bananza on the Supper Mario Broth Twitch channel!
In Super Mario Odyssey, the first Power Moon Mario and Cappy are supposed to obtain during regular gameplay is called “Our First Power Moon”.
Due to a glitch in Version 1.0 of the game, this name was not merely descriptive, but also mandatory, since collecting that moon at any point after collecting Madame Broode’s Multi Moon (i.e. it no longer being Mario’s and Cappy’s “First Power Moon”) would cause the game to crash.
The technical reason is that a stone pillar next to the moon is supposed to fall down and create a bridge after it is collected, but the bridge is automatically set to be down after defeating Madame Broode. Collecting the first moon afterwards causes the pillar to fall twice, causing the crash. This was fixed in all later versions.
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