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Officially licensed Mario Party keychain of Bowser holding a bag of coins, from Japan. What is unique about this keychain is that it depicts an event that is mentioned in the game, but not explicitly shown.
During the game’s story, Bowser does rob the Mushroom Bank and steal the stars and coins, but he is never actually shown during this; only the aftermath is seen by the player. Thus, this keychain provides a view of Bowser stealing from the bank that is absent during gameplay.
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Top left: in all newer Mario Party games, whenever Toad appears on the bottom of the screen next to a speech bubble, that instance of Toad does not exist within the actual scene; rather, it is an image of Toad superimposed over the picture.
Top right: if the camera is moved, the Toad in the bottom left does not move. Note the difference between the same Toad in the physical space and the superimposed Toad.
Bottom left: however, the earlier Mario Party games did not have the technical ability to create this effect. As such, even though the Toad appears to be superimposed over the scene, he is actually physically a part of it.
Bottom right: changing the camera angle shows that Toad is simply standing in the correct spot on the riverbank to line up with the speech bubble. Due to needing to appear larger than the rest of the scene, he is taller than some of the buildings in the village.
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Top: the official artwork for Mario’s Rainbow Castle from Mario Party. The resolution it was most commonly available at, e.g. as a wallpaper from Nintendo’s official site, was 800x600.
Bottom: a media CD, distributed for press use shortly before the game’s release, contained an extremely high-resolution version of this image, at 4000x3000 pixels. Despite the 3D models of the characters being rendered at that resolution, the towers in the background were not modified from their appearance in the 800x600 version of the image, resulting in them appearing extremely blurry and pixelated, in addition to having a blue outline made out of JPEG artifacts.
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Left: a panel from a 1999 Mario Party manga, depicting Toad, Mario, Princess Peach and Donkey Kong in a more realistic style; captioned “Mario Party USA”.
Right: Toad’s pose and exclamation “Oh my God!” may be a reference to the 1989-1992 Stardust Crusaders manga in the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure manga series, where Joseph Joestar exclaims “Oh! My! God!” with a similar pose and expression.
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Luigi has been playable in every game in the Mario Party series. He appears on all covers of the Mario Party games (sometimes as the smallest character, as in the case of Mario Party 9; or only in an extremely tiny screenshot, as in the case of Mario Party: The Top 100) except one: Mario Party Advance. Here is a guide on where Luigi can be found on all box artworks in the series.
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All credits images from Mario Party: Star Rush.
