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In Paper Mario, there is a slot machine in the section to the right of the Green Station in Shy Guy’s Toy Box. If a battle is started in front of the slot machine, it will appear in the background of the battle screen. However, instead of being merely a decorative prop, it is actually interactive.
Pressing Up while targeting the enemies will move the cursor to the blocks of the slot machine. By attacking the Start block first, it will start spinning. Then, attacking the Stop blocks stops them on a random symbol. If all three symbols match, 30 coins will be added to the player’s coin total.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, Paper Mario (NA, VC) on Wii emulator
The size of the Super Mario Bros. ROM is around 31 kilobytes. This scan of the game’s cover, saved at a resolution of 92x138 with standard PNG compression, is the same size. In other words, the entire game’s code would fit in the same storage space as this image.
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Top: the Sticker Album in Super Smash Bros. Brawl includes a badge from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, shaped like a red triangle with a fist emblem. The game calls it the “Mega Rush” badge.
Bottom: however, this is incorrect. In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, this design is used for the Power Plus badge instead. The actual Mega Rush badge can be seen below it in the list, and uses a different design with an orange octagon.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, PM:TTYD (GC) and SSBB (Wii) in various emulators
Top: “Golf” corn snack sold in Israel featuring an unlicensed use of Yoshi artwork from Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour on the packaging.
Bottom: note that unlicensed Yoshi imagery appears to be popular on products in Israel, as seen on this packaging for apple-scented dish soap by an unrelated company.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: top: twitter.com user “HillelArt”, bottom: see bottom of image
In Super Mario Odyssey, jumping on the Shiverian Nesting Dolls souvenir inside the Odyssey after buying them from the Snow Kingdom Crazy Cap store will cause the dolls to repeatedly assemble and disassemble.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, Super Mario Odyssey (Switch) on original hardware
Top: a promotional video for WarioWare Gold from Nintendo of Japan’s official YouTube channel included this scene of Kat and Ana fighting a samurai skeleton. The skeleton does not appear in the actual game.
Middle/bottom: this is actually a reference to the samurai skeleton that appeared in the intro to Kat and Ana’s story in the original WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames for the Game Boy Advance.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: 1, 2: myself, WarioWare Inc (NA, GBA) in GBA emulator
