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Cover of a 1996 Japanese guide for Super Mario 64, designed in a unique style. The background displays a jumble of the game's level maps all overlaid over each other.

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Officially licensed 1996 Super Mario RPG lunch bag from Japan.

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Promotional 2010 image of Shigeru Miyamoto and two Nintendo receptionists holding Mario and Luigi plushes, for the Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary event.

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Sprite of Peach with an incorrect blue palette, found in development files for Mario's Early Years: Fun with Letters for the SNES. In the finished game, the sprite was colored correctly and more shading was added.

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Promotional 2002 Super Mario Sunshine store display.

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In Battle Mode in Mario Kart DS, it is possible for CPUs to become stuck in a loop of circling a banana in the Twilight House battle course.

This is theorized to be a result of the course's bottleneck room structure requiring the CPUs to align themselves with a path to change rooms, and the banana avoidance routine interfering with this.

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Officially licensed 1995 Donkey Kong Country plush of Winky the Frog, from Japan.

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In Super Mario 3D World, the way Prince Bully is defeated is by forcing him inside a Clear Pipe, whereupon he will emerge on the other side in a shape deformed to fit the pipe.

Due to this being a brief segment, it may not be easy to see the details of his design during this. Above is Prince Bully's deformed pipe form, extracted from the game's files.

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Card from a set of officially licensed 1995 Mario quiz cards.

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Unexplained crash documented in Super Mario Odyssey when Mario enters the Deepest Underground area of the Sand Kingdom. It is theorized that this has to do with him wearing the Super Mario 64 outfit, though in what manner is still unknown.

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Officially licensed Boo finger puppet from Japan.

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Super Mario Bros. 2 illustration from the first issue of Nintendo Power in 1988 that mistakenly interprets the bow on Birdo's head as a pair of ears instead.

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In the ending of Super Mario World (left), the Empty Blocks that the Sumo Bro is standing on aren't actually background tiles, which is how Empty Blocks are implemented everywhere else in the game, but sprites instead. Disabling the sprites shows that they are displayed over a row of background Turn Blocks instead (right).

It is possible that the original intent was to make the Sumo Bro stand on the Turn Blocks before the sprite artist realized that this never happens in-game, and covered them up with Empty Blocks instead of going back to the background artist and requesting the change be made to the background itself, though this is merely speculation based on the most plausible interpretation of this scenario.

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Officially licensed 2014 Australian Yoshi backpack.

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In Super Mario 64, stepping on the first elevator platform inside the volcano in Lethal Lava Land after letting it despawn and respawn will cause Mario to slide sideways on it a short distance, as seen in the footage.

This is due to the platform actually still undergoing its rotation from the moment it despawned, being applied to Mario's position even though the newly respawned platform is stationary, due to an oversight in the code.

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Officially licensed 2009 plush of a Life Mushroom from Super Mario Galaxy (not to be confused with the Life Mushroom from the Paper Mario series, known as the "Life Shroom" prior to the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door), from Japan.

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In Donkey Kong Bananza, the Trustytone at the Getaways asks Donkey Kong for a small tip of 10 gold after each business transaction. As gold is extremely easy to come by, Donkey Kong is virtually guaranteed to have at least 10 gold on him at all times.

However, if the player either very carefully spends all gold or loses it by repeatedly dying and then does not collect any before trying to buy something from the Trustytone again, this obscure dialog will occur instead when the tip would normally be requested.

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