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.

MAINTENANCE WINDOW: APRIL 16TH, 7AM-7PM EDT Our longtime server provider was acquired by another server company, and now they're consolidating data centers to streamline operations. Unfortunately, we received notice that our services will be subject to a data center migration.

I love that people still care about the goofy stuff we did 20 years ago, being part of naming the games was some of the most fun I had working there.

nostalgia is remembering when you didn’t have to pay bills and attributing that feeling to mario

1986 news article that features maybe one of the first English-language interviews with Miyamoto

Satellaview Researcher kiddocabbusses has recently uncovered a new episode of Lily Franky Theater! Continuing the Brazil storyline, this one has Mario brutalizing the shit out of Toad www.youtube.com/watch?v=prL_...

Every weeks, I hope artists doing the "mariowiki randoms" challenge land on our pages for Donkey Kong Planet characters.

Former Nintendo of America employee Tom Eberspecher has just given the world some very important Mario Party lore.

LRT: The developers of Mario Kart: Double Dash were jumpy about the "two drivers" concept initially so they had a single-driver version as a back-up. An early iteration of the idea had the other driver in a side-car.

Next we have a lengthy Mario Kart: Double Dash interview from 2003, with Tadashi Sugiyama, Shinya Takahashi, and Kiyoshi Mizuki. After some brief introductions, they discuss course design, the differences between DD and MK64, and more. We'll be publishing part 2 soon! shmuplations.com/doubledash/

Before playing Wario Land 4, you must complete your required readings

Are you ready to find out about the mysterious Davide Soliani? Well fuck you, because the article just ends.

Sesame Street segments be like

How's your Mario music knowledge? Find out in an all-new Musical Quiz in Issue 214 of The 'Shroom! www.mariowiki.com/The_'Shroom:...

RIP US comic artist Art Nichols. He had contributed artwork to a number of Valiant's Mario comics.