Promotional 2001 Game Boy Advance T-shirt from Europe with a pop art-inspired Mario design. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source
In 2016, I have made a post about how in Super Mario Galaxy, whenever Mario sinks into a swamp, his head shrinks to allow his arm and hand to reach out of the swamp without his head being in the...
Officially licensed 1989 Super Mario Bros. 2 greeting cards that depict Wart as (at least partially) friendly, directly at odds with his characterization in the game, where he is depicted as a pu...
Extremely rare officially licensed Super Mario World seat cover from Japan, depicting a unique scene that could possibly be inspired by the small cells made out of Turn Blocks that can be seen in...
Paper Mario utilizes rendering techniques available on the Nintendo 64 hardware that are highly obscure and not well supported on emulators, including any official software used by Nintendo thems...
Super Mario Odyssey contains an unused capturable object called “SpaceShuttle” internally. No models remain for it, so the footage uses a simple placeholder graphic that is not indicative of ...
In Paper Mario, Luigi has different interactions at the Mario Bros. house depending on story progression. After completing Chapter 4, he will be in the bedroom, but storm out upon seeing Mario ap...
Design from a promotional 2000 IBM T-shirt featuring Mario. This is referring to the fact that Nintendo commissioned IBM to develop the Gekko, the CPU used in the GameCube, which was a modified v...
In Super Mario World, Mario cannot be crushed by a P-Switch. If he is caught between a P-Switch and a wall, he will be pushed out in the direction opposite to the wall. However, there is no suc...
In New Super Mario Bros., each power-up has a specific index that picks the effects of the power-up from a list. While there are only few different power-ups, the list itself accepts entry number...
Officially licensed 1992 Mario plush from Japan. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source
In Super Mario Maker 2, falling Bullet Bill Blasters will not crush Mario on slopes. Instead, they will push Mario down the slope, with the effect being cumulative if he is pushed into another Bu...
The characters Troff and Scoff from Donkey Kong 64 have been originally rendered with pierced nipples (as seen in their instruction manual artwork, left column); an aspect that was removed in all...
Japanese print ad for a giveaway of tickets to the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie. Note the Goombas from the movie edited onto the top of the fortress. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Fi...
During the Nintendo Space World 2000 presentation, an extremely brief clip of a pre-release version of Luigi’s Mansion was shown, featuring three ghosts playing cards. These ghosts are complete...
In Super Mario 64, if Mario approaches a Bob-omb without being seen and stands close to its spawn point, it will continue walking in a straight line without ever turning around as long as it does...
Bizarre unused robotic fish found in the files of Mario Party 7. The game contains an unused minigame where the player controls a robotic Cheep Cheep, for which this fish was likely intended as a...
In Super Mario Odyssey, crates exist outside of time. In early versions of the game (1.0 or 1.1), a glitch exists whereby capturing a stack of Goombas that are touching a Life-Up Heart results ...
The development of Yoshi’s Island went through a “baby wizard” phase where the team briefly experimented with replacing Baby Mario as a playable character with a non-Mario baby wearing a wi...
In Wii Sports, the castle on the golf course (right) is actually reusing the model of the overworld castles from New Super Mario Bros. (left). Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings ...