It is recommended to start a playthrough of Paper Mario: The Origami King by dying 17 times in a row. The game has a hidden pity system that applies discounts to accessories. Dying 17 times allows Mario to reach Maximum Pity for a 90% discount, saving a lot of money over the course of the game.

In the Super Mario 3D All-Stars version of Super Mario Galaxy, a rare glitch may happen with the Flying Mario power-up whereby the music will inexplicably keep speeding up and slowing down.

In Paper Mario, Parakarry is a clumsy postman who joins Mario to find letters he lost. However, at the end of the game, Parakarry leaves, while the letters never actually get removed from Mario's inventory. This creates the humorous effect of Parakarry forgetting them once again.

The Puffle Party music from Club Penguin was "completely ripped off" of Coconut Mall from Mario Kart Wii, as directly admitted by its composer Chris Hendricks.

During the famous 2000 "Super Mario 128" tech demo, a presentation was given by Shigeru Miyamoto showcasing his quirky sense of humor, whereby he compares the gathered Marios to stir-fried rice, and fries them.

At the 1991 CES trade show, Nintendo's booth allowed attendees to stand in front of a green screen, which would then be overlaid over Super Mario World, so they could "be in the game" with Mario. The bad syncing on the overlay gives the resulting footage an extremely amateurish appearance.

In Super Paper Mario, Squirps and Luvbi are mutually incompatible and only one of them can exist at a time. If the point where Luvbi leaves the party is skipped and the player returns to Chapter 4, Luvbi will "take Squirps's job" and be the one who shoots enemies with lasers.

In 1996, Nintendo was seemingly very fond of a single particular stock photo of the sky, so that it ended up on the cartridge artwork of three different games released in that year: Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and Pilotwings 64.

In Donkey Kong Bananza, signs appear that indicate that Tiny Kong owns a bank. The official German website for Donkey Kong 64 claimed she was a tax official and managed the savings of DK Island. Whether giving her a finance-related job is a deep cut reference or an astounding coincidence is unknown.

The Super Mario 64 Whomp's Fortress Fish Fountain saga has once again reached a new development! Every few years, new information surfaces about a mysterious object that has no code in the finished game but has slowly been discovered to have been a bountiful fountain of fish.

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In a 2010 interview, Shigeru Miyamoto revealed that the reason so many Mario enemies have repetitive names in Japanese (and by extension in English, e.g. Koopa Troopa, Cheep Cheep) is in honor of Takashi Tezuka, who calls himself "Ten Ten".

In Paper Mario: Color Splash, a Shy Guy is trapped in a water wheel after being bullied. The internal name for this pose is "crucify". This suggests that the original intent may have been for him to actually evoke a crucifixion before it was decided this may be in bad taste.

In Donkey Kong 64, Diddy, Tiny, Lanky and Chunky are all unlocked by freeing them from cages. While DK appears to be unlocked by default, this is false: internally, the game only unlocks him by opening the door to exit DK Island. The entirety of DK Island is his personal cage.

Super Mario Galaxy skyboxes use perspective tricks to reduce the number of polygons that would normally be needed. The Melty Molten Galaxy skybox appears to be two large spheres, but is actually an illusion painted onto the sides of a burger.

When rumble is turned on in Luigi's Mansion 3, the controller will vibrate in the presence of a Boo. The vibration is actually in a rhythm that spells out "-... --- ---" in Morse code, which translates to "BOO".

The Mosh-Pit Playroom minigame in Mario Party 8 contains generic books in the background. Unused textures for these books show they were originally meant to be a treasure trove of Easter egg references to other video games, including even some non-Mario ones like Mother.

In Mario Party, minigame descriptions treat being eliminated merely as being out of the game, except for Bumper Balls, which drastically shifts the tone by stating the winner is the last one left alive. This implies that while other minigames might be for fun, Bumper Balls is to the death.

A 2004 internal Nintendo document featured a bizarre model that looks like a fusion of Super Mario 64 and Paper Mario. This is actually a model from the famous Super Mario 128 tech demo, and is the only known place where it was ever used again after that.

The Berlin Wall has appeared a surprising amount of times in the Mario series, being featured in four games and one ad campaign.

Originally, Super Mario Strikers was planned to give every captain their own unique sidekicks, instead of sharing generic ones. Donkey Kong's dedicated sidekicks still survive in the files, being a trio of anonymous Kongs.

In Super Paper Mario, Bowser can accidentally break the game at the worst possible time purely due to how large he is. His size allows him to open two chests at once at the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials, which will freeze the game and undo vast amounts of progress.

In Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, an unused room takes Mario and Luigi through a time portal into a white void. This inadvertently highly resembles the classic SpongeBob SquarePants episode "SB-129", where the same exact scenario happens to Squidward.

Luigi's Mansion originally included a Pikmin movie, which was removed in the NSO Switch 2 version. This was to save space; with 63 MB, the Pikmin movie is half the size of Luigi's Mansion itself. The original disc had plenty of empty space so the movie was just thrown in.

The English manual for WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames states that Dr. Crygor created Wario's car. However, the French manual changes this into Dr. Crygor claiming to have created Wario himself. This makes him either Wario's father or Wario some kind of "Crygor's Monster".

It is possible that Mr. E, the eponymous mysterious book from Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, is inspired at least partially by the Voynich Manuscript, a famous medieval book that seems to describe unindentifiable wondrous flora in a completely incomprehensible language.

Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour contains a debug mode in its files, which provides an animation viewer. For an unknown reason, the animations of the characters moving into their golfing positions have a variety of bizarre motions as part of their initial setup.

When playing Donkey Kong Country Returns, you may notice that Donkey Kong never clips through platforms even when he logically should. The secret is that Donkey Kong does not actually exist on the same plane of reality as the rest of the game, and is merely superimposed on top of it.

In Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, placeable UI elements are unlocked as the game progresses. While the game tries to prevent clutter, with intentionally bad placing it is possible to cover the entire screen in UI, making the game look like a parody of bad interface design.

Scott Burns voiced Bowser in his famous voiced appearance in Super Mario Sunshine. For an interview, he voice acted the intro to the final boss battle from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, providing a glimpse into a world where he had remained Bowser's voice.

A particularly entertaining flaw in the Super Smash Bros. Melee programming is Bowser Floor Blindness, where Bowser regularly forgets that his Fire Breath affects the floor in front of him.

These two 2000 print ads were not intended to be placed together. If they are, they inadvertently seem to tell a grim story of a person who played Mario Golf as a solace from an unsuccessful love life, only to get addicted to the game and starve.

The prototype version of Mario Artist: Paint Studio contains empty, "liminal" versions of Mario Kart 64 renders.

In Super Paper Mario, holding 1 and Left for 4 hours in the Blooper boss room will crash the game. Fascinatingly, the reason for this is the same as for the famous Parallel Universes in Super Mario 64, whereby Mario encounters a parallel version of the cutscene very far away.

In Mario Kart 7, snow can make the game (very appropriately) freeze. Driving in and out out of the tunnel on DS DK Pass to make snow start and stop quickly will overload the game's GPU with snow, freezing the game.

In Super Mario Galaxy, there is a flag atop a tower in Sea Slide Galaxy depicting a seagull in a unique style not shared by anything else in the game. This is actually a reference to the classic 1984 Hayao Miyazaki film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Super Mario Odyssey and Donkey Kong Bananza (without paid DLC) have almost exactly the same structure in terms of distribution of major, medium and minor areas. In addition, both have 17 areas total, out of which 7 are of particular significance.

Donkey Kong Country 2's map design is exceptionally elegant in that it uses each of the game's 13 level themes exactly thrice each, without using any of them more than twice in a row. This is accomplished via several clever uses of the environment.

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While this may be difficult to notice in-game, the Vanilla Lake 1 and Vanilla Lake 2 tracks in Super Mario Kart take place on the exact same lake, merely at different stages of the ice melting. The outer boundary of the lake remains almost identical between the two.

In Super Paper Mario, Peach ends a dating simulator segment by blowing it up with a bomb. This is most likely a reference to classic 1994 dating simulator Tokimeki Memorial, where girls neglected by the player character will destroy his reputation, represented by cartoon bombs.

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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.

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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.