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Officially licensed 1994 Donkey Kong Country wind-up minecart toy with a customizable jigsaw-style track.

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Wario Render & Artwork ‘Mario Golf’ Nintendo 64

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Officially licensed 1986 Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (known as "Super Mario Bros. 2" in Japan) pencil case from Japan, featuring original illustrations of Mario, Peach, Bowser, and some other enemies in unique baseball outfits.

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Extremely rare full version of the "Diddy Kong pushing Mario in a minecart" render used in various magazines to promote Donkey Kong Country 2 in 1995, but almost never seen without being cropped or having text overlaid.

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Top row: unused early trick animations for Peach and Daisy found in the files of Mario Kart Wii.

Bottom row: in the finished version of the game, they were replaced with these animations.

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Original illustrations of Bowser attacking Mario, Peach and Toad's picnic and eating all their rice balls, from an officially licensed Mario picture book from Japan.

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a black cat holiday by charles robinson

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Officially licensed 1995 Donkey Kong Country pog slammers from Japan. Note the Enguarde one (bottom right corner) using a unique layout for the name that is supposed to be read from the top right to the bottom left, and appears to read "Edraugne" if read from the left.

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Joker cards from an officially licensed 1999 Mario Party 2 deck of playing cards from Japan, featuring Pirate Bowser and Pirate Wario.

All the other cards in the deck have standard faces with no Mario imagery. Curiously, this is one of the few times officially licensed Nintendo playing cards used unique images seemingly cropped from gameplay instead of relying on preexisting official artwork.

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Yoshi's Island splash artwork from a 1995 Japanese strategy guide.

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Cover of a 2000 Donkey Kong 64-themed booster pack for the officially licensed Japanese Donkey Kong Card Game, featuring original artwork of Donkey Kong.

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In a 1996 interview with the developers of Mario Kart 64, they revealed that they made a "big city track" where you "got to race around different houses and buildings", which was ultimately cut for being too large and taking too long for a single lap.

In development files for the game that surfaced in 2020, a model of this scrapped track was found. The images show an overhead view of the track and some views of how it would have appeared while racing.