Experimental post: The Time 5-Year-Old Supper Mario Broth Thought Luigi Was a Cryptid I share a story from my personal life about the first time I encountered Luigi at the age of 5. Due to a combination of factors, I was unprepared for him and ended up believing he was a cryptid.

Datamining Paper Mario: Color Splash reveals that Ludwig has an attack called the "Ludwig Bullet Kill Attack", where he kills Mario with bullets. Previously thought unused, it was now discovered that Ludwig will use it if Mario has no Tail stickers and is broke.

Mario Kart World uses a patented technique to make distant objects easier to see by enlarging them using a shader. The enlargement starts at 20 meters from the camera and increases until the object is 500 meters away, where it is twice as large as it would be normally.

It's the return of the Supper Mario Broth livestreams, with an unexpected twist! Join me on the Supper Mario Broth Twitch channel as I analyze The Curse of Monkey Island, including a showcase of Easter eggs, glitches, concept art and more! www.twitch.tv/suppermariob...

Bizarre promotional flipbook distributed in 2003 as part of Nintendo's "Who Are You?" marketing campaign, featuring inspirational text alongside a sequence of images of a person transforming into Donkey Kong.

A commonly shared Super Mario Bros. fact is that "the clouds and bushes are the same", but the bushes only use half the cloud graphics. However, this statement turns out to be completely true for WarioWare: Twisted, where the bushes are actually just full green clouds buried halfway in the ground.

In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the Toad NPCs have originally been envisioned to be highly nonstandard with odd cap shapes and unique colors. In each successive iteration of the game, their designs have been made to look more "normal" until the logical conclusion.

Some areas in Paper Mario feature a rim lighting effect that is achieved in a manner that is extremely simple for the surprisingly effective results it produces, being simply shifting around a shadow copy of the sprite.

Super Mario Sunshine contains a mysterious Threefold Unobtainable Water Bottle during the Mecha-Bowser battle that is protected from being obtained by three successively insurmountable protections for an unknown reason.

Cover of the script of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie included in its 30th anniversary Blu-ray release, decorated in a unique manner with numerous heads of Goombas from the movie telling the reader to "Be a Goomba".

Players of Paper Mario are made to believe that Kooper has a bandage on his cheek as part of his character design. This features heavily in fan depictions of him. As it turns out, the bandage was never supposed to be permanent and this is a case of artwork being removed from its intended context.

An officially licensed 1986 Japanese toy of Bowser holding Mario on a spring has a very unfortunate design issue with the placement of the nub to hold Mario in the spring. The spring appears to be attached to a normally unseen part of Mario's anatomy.

Donkey Kong Land programmer Paul Machacek has the honor of "Most Credit Received In A Single Video Game" in any Mario-related work, being credited once in the game's ending and 18 additional times in the game's code.

Trivia quiz booklet handed out at a Nintendo of America event in 2008, with a bizarre cover depicting Donkey Kong with the caption "Touched by Nintendo".

Mario Kart Wii contains an unused track that looks so corrupted that most videos do not have the bitrate necessary to properly convey how corrupted it is. However, its textures are merely in the wrong format. Changing the format reveals the track looks completely normal.

Game & Watch Gallery 3 contains unused graphics that appear to depict a sequence of a Fly Guy stealing Toad's mushroom cap (which according to Nintendo is part of his head), Toad dying as a result of this, and slowly decaying to nothing.

In Super Smash Bros. Melee, all fighters' default poses are a standard T-pose with arms out and open eyes, except for Yoshi. He has a unique default pose that gives him lowered eyelids that result in a smug or satisfied expression.

Due to some readers expressing interest in using the Supper Mario Broth Mii in the recently released Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, I have prepared my Mii and an easy-to-draw design for my best friend, Wallop. Instructions in reply! Regular content will now resume.

Mario & Luigi: Brothership contains an extremely cute model of a decorative baby penguin that appears only outside the playable area and is never seen up close. Below is a detailed view of the model to appreciate the penguin.

In Super Mario Galaxy, waking Mario up from a short nap and not moving will make him look sleepy. Waking up from a long nap will make him look even sleepier. Remarkably, this appears to be entirely unintentional and merely an extremely appropriate bug in the blinking engine.

Previously, I have posted about an unused partner in Paper Mario known only as "Ninji Boy", with the only information about him being that he can "lower the block". A newly translated developer interview confirms that he was cut and that director Kawade really regrets not having him.

In Mario Party, passing by the start of the board gains special bonuses for each 10th, 20th, etc. person. However, using luck manipulation to make a turn last forever and pass by the start 16,777,215 times will make the counter roll over and give a smaller prize than usual.

Pack of playing cards used by Singapore Airlines in 2002, featuring Mario to promote their "KrisWorld" in-flight entertainment system that included Nintendo games. Despite this, in the image the small Mario is choosing to watch soccer instead.

In Super Mario Sunshine, the Pinna Park map screen brochure features a Yoshi saying something nearly indecipherable. However, it turns out there is compelling evidence that he is congratulating a map designer on her upcoming wedding to a programmer at Nintendo.

In Donkey Kong Country Returns, a rare glitch can occur upon visiting Cranky Kong, where he will refuse to talk to Donkey Kong and instead sit in silence forever. The player will be unable to leave his shop, requiring the game to be reset.

A comparison of the colors used in the textures of various Rainbow Road tracks in the Mario Kart franchise.

The internal codenames for Mario games are sometimes quite creative. The codename for Paper Mario: Sticker Star, "554g", is an elaborate bilingual pun that requires deciphering it into Japanese and then translating the sentence into English to understand.

In World 6-7 of Yoshi's Island, Yoshi is chased by giant Chain Chomps. The level is intended to be linear, so backtracking from the checkpoint may cause the Chain Chomps to become glitched. Now, Yoshi will be chased by a singular floating eye, which will cry at the end.

I am terribly sorry.

A hallway on Floor 11 in Luigi's Mansion 3 references both The Shining and Twin Peaks with its carpet and floor patterns, respectively.

In Mario Kart Wii, the Thunder Cloud item can be passed off to other players. While this appears to be able to go on forever, there is actually an internal limit to this. After being passed around 255 times, the cloud will have had enough and strike the last player to receive it.

The Super Mario World theme is inspired by the 1963 song "Green Green". Nintendo planned a cheeky reference to this on the Satellaview by playing Green Green with the SMW soundfont, but this went unused, possibly due to the legal consequences of acknowledging the inspiration.

In 1993, the Japanese Famitsu magazine inquired Nintendo about Mario's favorite foods. Nintendo replied that Mario's favorite foods are mushrooms, onions, bell peppers, and surprisingly, edible chrysanthemums.

One version of the Mario Bros. arcade has an oversight where reaching 980,000 points gets a Game Over. This happens because the game starts giving Mario extra lives on every frame, overflowing the life counter. As such, he is literally killed by being showered with extra lives.

In Super Mario 64 DS, giant characters normally cannot crawl. However, reading a sign pounded halfway into the ground forces the character into a crawling pose. When giant, this results in the character's giant posterior completely blocking the entire screen.

In the spirit of April Fools' Day but without sacrificing the Supper Mario Broth veracity policy, here is a fact that seems so outlandish as to be a joke, but is actually true: in 1993, a Sega ad campaign briefly planned to use profanity to slander Mario.

It is nearly imperceptible to the human eye, but in Super Mario 64, King Bob-omb's feet have extremely subtly different colors.

In Super Smash Bros. Melee, Mewtwo's down special can interfere with other fighters' up specials by sending them flying if executed with precise timing. The effect is particularly pronounced with Luigi, who will be launched at an immense speed and remain airborne for 8 seconds.

In 1993, Silicon Graphics presented "Project Reality", the hardware later used in the Nintendo 64. One of the demos showed a realistic town populated by cutouts of Nintendo characters. Only two screenshots and a brief snippet of footage of it are known to exist, shown below.

To save space, the eyes on the Thwomp's face texture in Super Mario Galaxy are, in a manner both inventive and disconcerting, stored inside his mouth.

The Lakitu Launch minigame in Super Mario 64 DS/New Super Mario Bros. plays an animation of rounding up the caught Spinies after the game. The animation is so slow that if the game is played perfectly, it takes more than twice as long to round up the score as to actually play it.

Donkey Kong 64 has a large number of collectibles, but the Internet is full of misinformation on what exactly that number is. I present an accurate count based on comprehensive datamining, aiming to answer this question once and for all: Donkey Kong 64 has 2142 collectibles.

An obscure functionality of Donkey Kong Country Returns is that if Donkey Kong spends 3 full attack cycles of a boss not damaging it, Professor Chops will pop up telling him what to do, e.g. "BOP NOW!" In the Mole Miner Max battle, the tip is particularly condescending, being simply "TRY HARDER".

Extremely rare officially licensed 1992 "Mariovania" mug. While appearing to be a regular Super Mario Bros. mug, the background is actually the starting area of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. What Mario is doing in this location is not explained.

In Super Mario Odyssey, many Goombas can be stacked. The limit for a legitimate Goomba stack is 30, as they will stop spawning afterwards. Manually spawning more Goombas reveals that the limit for an illegitimate Goomba stack is 200. At 201 Goombas, the game crashes.

In Mario Kart Wii, crashing the game and activating the crash handler will eventually start playing back the contents of the Wii's RAM as sound. Since the data was never intended to be interpreted like this, it ends up sounding like experimental harsh noise music.

A boat in New Super Mario Bros. Wii is called "NICE_BOAT" internally. While the developers may have simply believed it to be a particularly nice boat, there is reason to assume this is a reference to the "Nice Boat" broadcast incident where an anime episode was cancelled due to a murder.

"Classic NES Series Trivia" was a Flash game available on Nintendo's site in 2004. The questions were loaded remotely, and could not be archived. Playing the game now results in no questions loading and a purgatory-like experience with blank choices, all of which are declared wrong.

In the selection screen of Super Smash Bros. Melee, characters are represented by artwork instead of 3D models. However, unused "selected" animations for the fighters' models exist in the files for a scrapped 3D selection screen. Some of these are broken due to being unfinished.

"60 Second Challenge! Save Luigi!" was an interactive train quiz held on some Japan Railways trains from 2020-2022. The player had 2 chances to select 1 correct answer out of 3 to save Luigi being dropped in lava. Getting both guesses wrong would result in Luigi almost dying.