Please note that the content presented within these posts is very specific and is likely to only be of interest to avid Mario enthusiasts.
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Article asking readers to report counterfeit Nintendo software, featuring Mario, from a 1991 issue of Nintendo Power.
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Extremely low-polygonal bird found in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, extracted from the game’s files. In-game, the bird is never meant to be seen at a size greater than a few pixels.
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In World 7-2 of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, there is an area with two ledges that are slightly more than one screen apart, where Lakitu is patrolling and a single green Koopa Paratroopa can be found.
Together, these elements combine to create a unique challenge for expert players whereby the Koopa Paratroopa can be kicked and its shell will bounce repeatedly between the off-screen ledges without despawning. During this, the player must dodge the Lakitu’s Spinies while the shell takes them out and collects 1-Ups, as seen in the footage.
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Comparison between early sprites for the Bony Beetle enemy in Super Mario World found in development files (top) and the finished design (bottom).
The early design appeared to be a more obvious cross halfway between a Dry Bones and a Buzzy Beetle, while the finished design is simply an alternate form of a Buzzy Beetle (though still having two shoes like a Dry Bones, instead of four feet like a regular Buzzy Beetle).
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Unused short music track found in the files of Super Mario Sunshine, intended to be used for a scrapped Petey Piranha cutscene.
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Extremely rare keychain depicting the Gold Fuzzy from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door available as a Club Nintendo reward in Germany in 2004. Note that since this object was never available for purchase and was only offered for a limited time, it is unknown how many of them exist and how many of the existing keychains were redeemed in the first place.
This was the only character from the game to receive an exclusive metal keychain of this kind. It is unclear why, for a game with dozens of named characters used prominently in its marketing, the character chosen for a keychain was a Chapter 1 miniboss that is a recolored version of a common enemy.
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