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:

A member of the Mariowiki discord has just posted an interview with Ralph Miller, the man behind the audition that would nab Charles Martinet the role of Mario! Some never-before revealed information about the audition, Mario in Real Time, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlCc...

[Nintendo Switch Firmware Update] Some default profile icons were changed in 20.0.0. Here's a handy chart to compare the differences. (I hope that image compression doesn't make it hard to compare... If it does, I'll post a link to the raw image in the replies.)

In a 2024 documentary about the development of everyone's favourite C-tier N64 platformer Glover, the game's creators revealed that Nintendo was interested in publishing the game, with Miyamoto suggesting to retitle it "Mario's Glove".

Ten years ago (goddamn), a legend was born.

April showers bring The 'Shroom! Issue 217 has been released! www.mariowiki.com/The_'Shroom:...

Extremely foul showing off the free roam feature by throwing THE PENGUIN OFF THE CLIFF WHILE MARIO 64 MUSIC PLAYS.

We're back. If you didn't survive the downtime, you were weak.

Reminder we're undergoing maintenance tomorrow morning! How the fuck are you even going to live?

The climax of the Captain N episode "Simon the Ape-Man" has Donkey Kong's help defeat Dracula's zombie army. No doubt in reference to this classic moment of television, the masterpiece game Donkey Kong 5: The Journey over Time and Space features Dracula as the final boss.