Issue 173 of Nintendo Dream Magazine includes a recipe for a unholy Wario-themed "Garlic cake"

Some footage does exist. I downloaded two clips from (I think) an old Sega website ages ago. There were also some images of the then-president of Nintendo of America, Tatsumi Kimishima, welcoming Sonic.

According to former Sega employee Mike Fischer, when Sega signed on to publish Gamecube games, Nintendo posted a guy in a Mario costume to greet the Sonic mascot.

I love the GameFAQs forums I hope they never get removed

If anyone is willing to provide the translation for a bunch of Thai names for Super Mario Bros. Wonder stuff (everything under "T" here), we're interested!

According to a recent article by Japanese outler gamebiz, Goro Abe and the WarioWare team had the incredible motto of "let's waste the latest technology"

Kazuyuki Kurashima has just shared some concept drawings for Super Mario RPG. Apparently an idea was kicked around for Mario having different transformations and powers, like Circus Mario, Bat Mario, Octopus Mario, and Bug Mario! x.com/kurashimakaz...

In 2000, IGN Pocket posted a mysterious image, allegedly from "a Japanese correspondent", showing what appeared to be a Yoshi game or tech demo for GBA. As it turns out, the thing was a mock-up by Famitsu 64 magazine. Creds to PineappleCarl from the Gaming Alexandria Discord for the find!

Thanks to an image uploaded by twitter user Wifi_h1024, we now know that Sonic appeared in an episode of Lily Franky Theater!

Fun fact: In the original draft, the Nintendo character emprisoned in Area 51 was Fox. However...

On what streamer will you be watching Toad?

Nintendo and Illumination are going really hard in marketing the Super Mario Galaxy movie and they've announced the first brand new Mario TV series in 30 years alongside it! Introducing... Toad! www.mariowiki.com/Toad_(televi...

The Super Mario Super Show has started airing on MEtv using some kind of AI upscaling ,and the results are as good as you'd expect

Game: Toad Console: Nintendo GameCube Created by: partyboy2 Uploaded on: February 23rd, 2010

Thinking about This old revision for the Bowling Goonie image

The 2nd issue of Valiant Comic's "Game Boy" series made an incredibly wrong prediction about the outcome of the 1991 Super Bowl

"Ask Uncle Tusk" was an on and off feature on Rareware's website where fans could send questions for the privilege of being roasted by a Rare employee pretending to be the dude from Killer Instinct II. One reader asked for nudes of Dixie Kong.

A wiki user has emailed DiC Mario cartoon writer Perry Martin about his work on the three shows. Lots of insight about the production of the shows is included here, included unused episode premises!

They would not let their souls be weighted down by gravity

Another year, Another time, And Still Wondering, what the fuck does Barnacle Bear does in Donkey Konga 3?

Thank you donkey Kong

It's Christmas's eve. You know what it means.

A TikTok User has posted a photo of subway workers removing Yoshi from the train tracks. https://kotaku.com/yoshi-classon-avenue-g-train-station-tracks-tiktok-2000650930

Fun fax: Longtime Nintendo artist Masanori Sato (who did the character and promotional artwork for the first two Mario & Luigi, among other things) is also the creator of Mega Man 2's Metal Man!

Game Boy cake / Print ad / Sainsbury's / 1993

In the ending credits for Mario Kart Arcade GP 2, Waluigi does the Akira bike slide

Kazuki Motoyama / 本山一城, author of several manga adaptations of Super Mario, has passed away according to his sister. He was 69 years old. www.instagram.com/p/DPSXpYukhQd/ www.mariowiki.com/Kazuki_Motoy...

According to an Instagram post by his sister, Kazuki Motoyama, author of Comic BonBon's Super Mario manga (aka "KC Mario"), passed away in August of this year. www.instagram.com/p/DPSXpYukhQ...

Same voice actress (as of Mario Kart World)

The year is 1982. Ralph M. Freeman, District Judge of the Southern Division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, is tasked with attempting to describe "Donkey Kong". The result is delightfully archaic.

Crowdsourcing our research to the crowd: An editor of ours is curious because the yogurt brand Actimel is currently running a sweepstake, and for the countries of Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, and Spain, you have to answer a question.

Marveling at the bootleg game character figs used for this Tips & Tricks CodeBook spread Cross Eyes Knuckles trying to calm down Duke Nuke while he waves a gun around in a panic

I can't believe Tom Leduc fucking won

How Super Mario 64 Fixed Princess Peach's Ad-Agency Induced Naming Mishap.

KeroCola addiction claims another victim.

RIP Nelvana, co-producers of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon.

The Super Mario Wiki is celebrating its 20th anniversary today! Feeling old yet?

We are now partnered with the independant French Wiki Mario as part of the Mushroom World Encyclopedia! Be sure to give 'em a visit wikimario.fr/Wiki_Mario

A new episode of Lily Franky Theater has been dumped! In this one, Mario and Toad are on the run from the police after (accidentally?) killing a man, Toad gets an erection and they both argue over who is the real murderer. More info at superfamicom.org/blog/

Donkey Kong Bananza is technically out in New Zealand as of a few hours ago and as such non-preview content is now considered fair game to be covered on the wiki. We don't hide spoilers, so...

While doing some unrelated research into Mario Party 2, I stumbled across a Spaceworld '99 report on the official Nintendo website featuring an early Mario Party 2 logo seemingly undocumented anywhere else (including @mariowiki.com). Is anyone else aware of this? web.archive.org/web/20001029...

In a 2025 interview, DiC writer Phil Harnage explained the genesis of everyone's favourite caveman ratfuck, Oogtar

😘 Still not getting any hits with quick searches so I really do think it might be new #mario art for the internet. Published by Tokuma Shoten by Wanpakku. Famicom Quiz Series, 1987 [テレビランドわんぱっく No.103] チャレンジ！！ファミコンクイズ

In the Japanese script of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Zip Toad (or Tron as he is named in it) is written as parody of the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam character Quattro Bajeena

Fun fact: there is an official(?) Mario / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle crossover: The German translation of the Valiant comics included a number of original text stories, one of which was about Mario & Luigi being hired by Shredder to vacuum up the sewers

You asked. We listened.

Sega's arcade game E-Swat includes a boss battle against an oversized gorilla that attacks by throwing barrels. I wonder what this could be a reference to?

Happy pride month

Thanks to the newest installment of Ask the Developers, the question everyone was asking is finally answered: