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The North American commercial for Mario Tennis for the Game Boy Color uses unique 3D models for Mario and Donkey Kong that have not been used in any other official capacity by Nintendo since.
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Illustration from the Brazilian print ad for Mario Tennis on the Game Boy Color.
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The back cover of the Japanese official sountrack CD for Mario Tennis on the Nintendo 64 contains renders of Donkey Kong, Birdo, Paratroopa and Boo that have never been released at a high resolution. The bottom image shows the pictures in the highest definition that existing scans of the cover can provide.
Mario Tennis for the Nintendo 64 contains a model viewer within a dummied-out debug mode that can be accessed with cheats. This feature allows us to see what the player characters’ models look like before animation data is applied to them.
Top left: DK as he normally appears. Top right: DK’s default model before animations are applied. Bottom: 360-degree view of DK’s default model.
Mario Tennis poster from Total Game Boy magazine, featuring an extended version of the Mario Tennis title screen image.
Concept art for some Virtual Boy games.
Umpire Mario’s model from Mario Tennis on the Nintendo 64.
From Mario Tennis on the Nintendo 64.
From the intro of Mario Tennis for the Nintendo 64.
