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Top: the art director for Hotel Mario was Jeffrey Zoern, who worked at Philips Fantasy Factory in 1994.
Bottom: 25 years later, now working at Next Level Games, Jeffrey Zoern was the lead technical character artist for Luigi’s Mansion 3, which - like Hotel Mario - revolves around a hotel.
While this is most likely a coincidence, it is notable how the same person was in a high-ranking artist position on both of the Mario franchise games that are hotel-themed - although it cannot be entirely ruled out that he could have had an influence on the choice of theming for both games.
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Print ad for entertainment trade magazines, showing the acquisition of Nintendo IPs for software to be produced for the Philips CD-i. Note that only Mario, Link, and Zelda’s planned games ended up being released (Hotel Mario, Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, respectively); the planned game featuring Donkey Kong was cancelled.
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Map of the Klub Koopa Resort from Hotel Mario. This cannot be seen during a regular playthrough as the hotels are visited one after the other without the world map being shown; the only way to view the map is to get a Game Over and then select “Restore” from the main menu.
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Mario applying “Bowser’s Ghost Cologne” during an optional cutscene in Hotel Mario.
Sprites of Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach from the ending sequence of Hotel Mario, extracted from the game’s files.
Roy Koopa’s attack animation from Hotel Mario.
