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Officially licensed 2025 Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong headband available at the Donkey Kong Country area of Super Nintendo World in Japan.

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Live-action segments used in the 2015 Japanese commercials for Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (also used in some European regions).

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The Nintendo Switch Online emulation of Wario Land 3 is imperfect and may cause issues if the game is restarted from a suspend point too many times.

In the footage, Wario enters the Sea Turtle Rocks level after the player extensively used the load function, and is deposited in a completely glitched area with no floor instead of the actual level. As Wario is not programmed to be able to die in this game outside of very specific circumstances, he simply loops back around to the top of the screen after falling, indefinitely.

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Mario's shoes displayed at the Nintendo New York store for a brief time to promote the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie.

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In the Super Mario Bros. game style of Super Mario Maker 2, if a Burner on a curved track pushes a Muncher, the Muncher will move to the left slightly. This is enough to make its hitbox overlap the hitbox of a Goal Pole if it is positioned near it, but in a unique way in which it is dependent on Mario's speed.

Top: approaching the displaced Muncher at running or normal walking speed will cause Mario to die.

Bottom: however, if Mario approaches the Goal Pole as slowly as possible, he will actually touch it first and be able to avoid the Muncher.

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In Super Mario World, Mario is able to carry two objects at once if they are positioned to almost overlap each other, with a two pixel offset, and Mario runs towards them and picks them up. In the footage, Mario may appear to hold a single key, but is actually holding two of them in this manner.

In the regular game, keys do not appear in the levels where climbable fences appear. However, if the game is modified to put them in the same area, and Mario is pushed by two keys at once while in the middle of the animation of flipping around on a fence, an immensely bizarre interaction will occur whereby he will be imparted with inescapable momentum. Note how Mario tries to move in various directions or slow down, but cannot.

He will continue moving like this until he hits a wall, whereupon he will die.

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Cover of a 1996 issue of the British Nintendo Magazine System magazine, promoting Super Mario 64 with an original illustration based on the style of the Super Mario RPG official renders.

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According to internal Rare documents shared by Donkey Kong Country designer Gregg Mayles, the name originally envisioned for Donkey Kong Country was DONKEY KONG'S™ MONKEY MAYHEM™.

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Rare officially licensed 1982 Donkey Kong figurines on display at the National Videogame Museum in Frisco, Texas.

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Super Mario Galaxy 2 contains an unknown variable in Mario's list of abilities called "TrampleNormalTaco". Its value is 28, though changing it to anything else does not seem to affect anything (as of the current state of knowledge about the game), raising the possibility that it is unused.

There are no tacos in the game, much less ones Mario could trample. It is possible this is a misspelling of "Tico", the internal name for Lumas, though even with that possibility it is unclear in what way Mario could have "trampled" them.

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1994 print ad for Donkey Kong Country.

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Extremely unique reinterpretation of Luigi (the man in the middle of the top panel) found in an officially licensed 1989 Super Mario Bros. 3 graphic novel from Japan. Here, he is called "Prince Luigi", is not related to Mario or looks anything like him, and is Peach's fiancé.

It is unknown why the author decided to keep Mario and Peach with their standard designs while taking such creative liberties with Luigi.

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Super Mario Odyssey may crash simply as a result of the player being too good at the game.

If the player moves in a deliberate enough way to know exactly where a Chain Chomp would be and throws Cappy precisely so that the Chain Chomp is captured off-screen on the first frame it loads, the game will crash. In the footage, Mario captured a Chain Chomp off-screen to the right as early as possible.

Since the positioning is merely a question of optimal movement towards the Chain Chomp and does not in any way involve glitches or special setups, this crash can happen unexpectedly during speedruns or other displays of skillful play.

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Cover of a 2000 Donkey Kong 64-themed booster pack for the officially licensed Japanese Donkey Kong Card Game, featuring original artwork of Donkey Kong.

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High-quality reference images distributed to Nintendo product licensees in the early 1990s, from the Nintendo of America archives.

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An extremely bizarre detail in Mario Kart Wii is that the visual effect for performing a trick is different between DK Summit (left) and every other course in the game (right), though in a way that is so immensely minor that it is impossible to actually distinguish in-game.

The actual file being used for the effect is a different file that is marked as a "special version" of the regular one, and is nearly identical except for extremely minor tweaks to the frame timing and luminosity of the glow.

Why the developers would make a special "DK Summit-only trick animation" and then make it virtually impossible to distinguish is unknown.

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Menu screens from "Donkey Kong Country: He Came, He Saw, He Kong-Quered", a 2013 DVD release of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon series, featuring unique renders of Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong.

Note Donkey Kong's tie being mirrored in all its appearances in the menu for an unknown reason.

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