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According to the official Japanese guide for Princess Peach: Showtime, the horses ridden by the enemies in the Wild West plays are humorously called バッドネスホース, which is a transliteration of the English phrase "Badness Horse" into Japanese.

Most of the game's enemies have names with actual Japanese words in them in Japanese, with the few others that are also transliterated English being regular phrases ("Laser Patrol", "Little Snake"), making "Badness Horse" unique in its unusual usage of the word "badness".

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Officially licensed 1990 Super Mario Bros. 3 T-shirt.

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In Super Mario Galaxy, if Mario spins near a shell to pick it up underwater and is hit at the same time (as e.g. by the Urchin in the footage), the shell will remain suspended motionlessly in that spot for a few seconds before exploding.

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Officially licensed Super Mario Bros. wristwatch from Japan. Note the Super Star on the seconds hand.

Original illustration of Mario and Birdo from an officially licensed 1991 Super Mario Bros. coloring book from Germany.

In Donkey Kong 64, standing on a Lanky Pad as Lanky Kong (with the Baboon Balloon ability unlocked) and pressing Z will cause him to inflate himself like a balloon and start floating upwards.

However, if this is interrupted by being flattened by a Kosha enemy's club, Lanky will still continue rising for a brief period even though his animation will be overridden by the one of him trying to straighten himself out after being hit.

This results in the humorous impression of Lanky flying into the air through the sheer power of flapping his arms, like wings.

Promotional 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie snapback hat.

In Super Mario 64, Peach's Castle stone textures have a curious colorful noise pattern overlaid over them (original textures on the left, enhanced contrast on the right) that is not present in any other textures in the game.

Theories regarding this range from artifacts of a specific type of compression only used for these textures, to this being done deliberately to subtly make the grey textures more visually interesting.

Officially licensed 1985 Super Mario Bros. bottle from Japan.

The stone wall texture in Jolly Roger Bay in Super Mario 64 is taken from a commercial texture CD, where it was cropped from a photo of a building with plaster crumbling from its walls.

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The only original unused room in the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario RPG that is not merely a debug version of an existing room is an extremely simplistic green flat-color rectangle with a brown flat-color road on it, suspended in a black void. There is nothing else in this room.

Promotional 2001 "Ask Me About" pin featuring a Game Boy Advance displaying a scene from World 1-1 of Super Mario Advance.

In Virtual Boy Wario Land, there is a very easy to miss brief animation during the fade-out from the elevator transition between levels that only activates if Wario had missed a treasure on the current level.

As the screen fades out and the elevator is rising, Wario will look at the player with a shocked expression, as though suddenly realizing that he is missing a treasure.

Like many other 8-bit and 16-bit games, Donkey Kong Land 2 uses a monospace font since that is the easiest type of text display to implement on systems that internally divide sprites and backgrounds into square (usually 8x8 pixel) chunks.

However, for an unknown reason, the period character in this game is not aligned where it should normally be in a monospace font (bottom left or middle of its tile) but in the bottom right instead, causing it to appear as though there is a space before it instead of after it. This results in some of the text looking incorrect, such as "K. Rool Duel" appearing as "K .Rool Duel" (note that internally, there is no space and only a period character, so the actual string of text in the code is "K.Rool Duel").

In Luigi's Mansion (shown here in the 3DS version but equally applicable to the original GameCube version), the portrait ghost Mr. Luggs actually has a pattern on his clothing, which is hard to see in-game since his napkin covers part of his front side and he is seated at a table looking towards the screen, further obscuring his body. The only way to see it in detail is from the back.

The pattern is too blurry to make out but appears to resemble trees alongside a path. It is also possible given the nature of the character that these are supposed to be food stains (though why they would also be on his back is unclear) and any resemblance to a deliberate fabric pattern is not intentional.

Officially licensed Super Mario Bros. 3 lunch bags.

Top: in the original GBA version of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the scene of Cackletta possessing Bowser's body and turning into Bowletta is animated with regular 2D graphics; but in the Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions version shown here, it is one of the few things in the game to be 3D modeled.

Bottom: here is the model of Bowletta's face (which is really just a floating mouth and eyes) used for this scene, extracted from the game's files.

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