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In a 2010 interview with Yoshiaki Koizumi, producer of Super Mario Galaxy 2, he was asked by Japanese magazine Famitsu about how Yoshi can survive in space in the game. His answer was “because he’s a space Yoshi”. This is confirmed in the game as there is a special version of the sign in front of Yoshi’s house in Sky Station Galaxy, which can only be accessed during that galaxy’s third mission. Unlike the regular version of the sign, which contains a message signed “Yoshi”, this one is signed “Yoshi the space dragon”.
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Top: the only official artwork of Silver Luigi that has been released by Nintendo as an image file in a press kit. As you can see, Silver Luigi is largely obscured by Gold Mario. No standalone image of Silver Luigi was released.
Bottom: However, Silver Luigi appears unobscured in a single piece of artwork; seen on the inside of the New Super Mario Bros. 2 box. A high-resolution photograph of it was provided to me by twitter.com user “Nintendle”. This image is currently the most high-quality image of Silver Luigi available on the Internet.
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In the Chocolate Secret level in Super Mario World, one particular Chargin’ Chuck* can kick footballs through walls.
*The football-kicking variety of Chargin’ Chuck is called “Passin’ Chuck” in the Nintendo Power Mario Mania Player’s Guide.
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A 1994 Spanish game show featured a challenge where a contestant was to use an oxy-fuel cutter to sever a metal pipe to free a captive woman dressed as Princess Daisy while a man in a Mario mascot costume watched. Here, you can see Daisy in a cage with Mario waiting outside. This segment was sponsored by Nintendo of Spain to promote Super Mario Land, hence the choice of Princess Daisy instead of Peach.
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1997 print ad for Silicon Graphics computer workstations, featuring Wing Mario from Super Mario 64. Silicon Graphics owns MIPS Technologies, the company that produced the MIPS R4300i microprocessor used in the Nintendo 64. The rabbit character MIPS from Super Mario 64 is named after that processor.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: Next Generation (US), Issue 29, 1997
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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