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Super Mario Land 2 map illustration
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the French Nintendo Player magazine.
The book of Ezekiel in the Bible contains a reference to “dry bones” that come to life with a shake and a noise, not unlike the Dry Bones enemy from the Mario series that regenerates after being hit by shaking and making a clattering sound. It is possible that the Dry Bones enemy was in fact named by Nintendo’s English localization team as a reference to this passage.
Rare high-resolution version of the Mario vs. Bowser Balloon Battle artwork from Mario Kart: Super Circuit.
In the main menu of Mario Power Tennis, Toad is present to explain the selection options. It appears as though Toad is close to the background and roughly the same size as the icons. However, moving the viewpoint reveals that Toad is actually extremely tiny and extremely close to the camera (note Toad near the left edge of the screen in the bottom image).
By removing the game’s ability to load certain textures, we can cause Mario’s mustache in Super Paper Mario to not be rendered, allowing us to get a clear view of Mario’s mouth.
Fan-submitted artwork from the German 64 Power magazine. Toad’s speech bubble translates to “Help”.
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, leaving the battlefield while fighting King Lakitu in Yoshi Star Galaxy will cause him to fall asleep until Mario returns.
In the Japanese version of Super Mario 64, it is possible to change the direction Mario is facing during the cutscene after collecting a Bowser Key by standing under the key’s spawning point and entering first-person view. Note that in this version, the key appears as a Power Star after collecting it.
Reader-submitted artwork from N-Force magazine.
In Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, almost all frames of Mario and Luigi’s animations are saved as separate sprites instead of being split up into elements. The only exception is Mario during the execution of the Luiginary Hammer attack, where his sprites are present in the data without arms.
