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A Luigi's Mansion 2 HD keychain of Polterpup was packaged in such a way in Japan that the white backing and bubble wrap made him practically invisible except for his collar, playing into his ghostly nature. Whether this was deliberate or a serendipitous coincidence is unknown.

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In the Forest Secret Area in Super Mario World, there are three 1-Ups after the goal that seem impossible to collect without flying, as walking through the goal destroys them. However, there is an extremely simple trick to get them: simply press L before touching the goal.

Mario Party contains an obscure "underwhelming victory" scenario. Normally, the winner is celebrated with a special cutscene and declared Superstar. However, if no stars were obtained, no cutscene plays and all the winner gets is text saying "YOU ARE WINNER" before the game ends.

Super Mario Bros. Deluxe includes a calendar that goes all the way to the year 3000. Ironically, this reaches much further than typical modern computer and smartphone calendars. As such, even now Super Mario Bros. Deluxe remains a good option to keep track of far future dates.

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In Diddy Kong Racing DS, the message when connection is lost during Download Play is "LOST ALL CHILDREN". The cartridge is internally called a "parent" and the downloaded instances its "children". While this would make sense to the developers, it can confuse or scare players.

The instrumentation of the Lakitu Info Center music in Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam appears to be a reference to "The Typewriter", a 1950 orchestral composition using a typewriter as an instrument. Below is a comparison of the two.

Promotional photos of My Chemical Romance lead vocalist Gerard Way with Mario from a 2007 interview in the Japanese Crossbeat magazine. He is quoted as saying "I'm drawn to works that are innovative and try new things", which evidently includes Mario.

In Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Mario and Luigi's level-up stat gains are bizarrely based on what level Bowser is currently at. If he is at a "good" level, they will be several times more powerful. The game does not tell you which levels are good and which are bad.

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In the Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Rosalina fights Megaleg. However, the real Megaleg from the game is much larger than one would expect and would have made Rosalina almost impossible to see when zoomed out. The size of the one in the movie is closer to Digga-Leg.

In Paper Mario: The Origami King, some attacks deal elemental damage. The elements start off traditional, with Earth, Water, Fire etc. but then quickly devolve into one-off joke elements like "Golf".

In one of the prototype versions of Yoshi's Island, the Baby Mario handover process is unfinished and does not always work. The Yoshi that should be waiting at the end is missing, and the playable Yoshi simply throws Baby Mario onto the ground, making him crawl off by himself.

In Super Mario Sunshine, Shadow Mario's voice is created by applying a filter to Mario's voice; however, he does not use all of Mario's voice clips. By making Mario himself use the filter, we can finally hear Shadow Mario say things like "MAMA hoohahoo wow wow" and "The horror".

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Mario Kart: Double Dash contains a bizarre "eternal European pain" glitch whereby being burned when entering a pipe will cause the character to remain in pain indefinitely, but only in the European version.

In Super Mario Sunshine, the differences between surfing Bloopers are presented as a tradeoff between speed and handling, appearing to not have any clear advantage over each other. However, this is not true, and the green Blooper is actually OBJECTIVELY SUPERIOR to the other two.

The code of Super Mario World contains an unused translucent level mode, which causes the environment to appear ethereal and was as such possibly intended for ghost house levels. Below is footage of some ghost houses with the mode enabled.

Since the star collection and post-star collection cutscenes in Super Mario Galaxy 2 have an average length of 30 seconds and a full playthrough collects 240 stars, the player spends at least 2 hours per playthrough simply watching Mario collect stars.

@Timcast .. anything or everything, but the attacks she's been getting do not match the possibility of some things she could have wrong. What they DO match, however, is the motive behind the things she's drawing lines between.... Did you get your check this week, timmi?

Extremely rare banana putter given out to Nintendo employees who participated in the marketing of Donkey Kong 64.

In Super Mario Sunshine, Mario is immune to bees while talking. He will be pushed around by them, but not be harmed while he's engaged in conversation. Note that he is not simply immune to damage - e.g. he will still die to heat stroke while talking. It is specifically bees.

In Donkey Kong Country 2, it is possible to trap Diddy Kong in a state of eternal horror. Hitting K. Rool with a team-up throw in a specific manner will cause Diddy's eyes to pop out in shock; however, he will never recover and stay in this state until the game is reset.

In Super Mario 64, parts of Lethal Lava Land are actually made out of leather, which simply appears to be stone due to the low resolution of the textures.

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