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Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 contain a glitch known as "Launch Star Displacement" whereby entering a Launch Star while Mario is slipping will cause his launch trajectory to change.

As most targets for launches are small planetoids relatively far away, and most locations in the game are surrounded by empty space, even a small trajectory deviation statistically often results in Mario missing his target and flying into the void.

The footage shows this happening in Boo Moon Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy 2. Mario very briefly slips on the edge of the purple Snake Block while entering the Launch Star. While he is supposed to land on the crescent moon planetoid, he ends up missing it entirely and dying.

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Top: Paper Mario: The Origami King contains an unused setting for text to be displayed at a 90° angle, demonstrated here in-engine.

Bottom: the game often uses text gimmicks for characters who are in nonstandard states. As such, it is possible that this was intended to be a text gimmick for characters who for some reason or another, are arranged perpendicularly to Mario while speaking. This is a mock-up of what such a usage of this text effect could have looked like.

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In Mario Kart 8/Deluxe, the anti-gravity section on the GBA Mario Circuit track is held up by giant blue car jacks that have extremely faint writing on them. Enhancing the contrast shows it reads "Ultra Arm".

The name and design of the jacks is a reference to Ultra Hand, a toy produced by Nintendo in 1966 (designed by Gunpei Yokoi, later inventor of the Game & Watch and Game Boy among other achievements). The Ultra Hand has been referenced many times all across Nintendo media, recently famously through the "Ultrahand" ability in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

In addition to featuring the Ultra Hand in many WarioWare microgames, the man getting his wallet stolen on the packaging is also featured in the "Clawing for More" boss microgame in WarioWare Gold.

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Artwork of Mario dancing, seen in the 1985 instruction manual/programming guide for Family Basic V3 on the Famicom.

The illustration is to show that by using Mario's jumping sprite without making him actually jump, he can be made to look like he is raising his hands in the manner reminiscent of the dance move featured in the 1977 move Saturday Night Fever (which has since become the default "disco" move in fiction), with the caption next to him translating to "Fever".

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In Super Mario World, by performing a precise bounce off a Rex enemy in the first level of the game, Yoshi's Island 1, it is possible to clip into a diagonal pipe and become stuck inside it.

Left: going to the right puts Mario in the space between the pipe and the next ledge, from which he cannot escape outside of going back into the pipe.

Right: going to the left makes Mario walk down a series of solid tiles inside the pipe as though they were stairs, and die.

Since all this glitch requires is running fast and jumping onto the Rex at a precise moment, it is entirely possible to encounter this accidentally during regular gameplay.

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In a 2019 interview with GamesRadar, Donkey Kong 64 creative director George Andreas explains that the reason the game has so many collectibles, and so many playable characters, was because Rare co-founder Tim Stamper felt that it needed to distinguish itself from Banjo-Kazooie (which was released a year prior).

If Banjo-Kazooie had not existed, or if Donkey Kong 64 had been developed first, it is entirely possible that the game would have had much fewer collectibles, and only two playable characters, like the previous Donkey Kong Country series games.

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Reader-submitted drawing of Mario and Peach featured in a 2003 issue of the Japanese Nintendo Dream magazine.

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Illustration made by Shigeru Miyamoto during a Donkey Kong arcade design meeting in 1981, included in the court documents from the 1983 Universal vs. Nintendo lawsuit about whether Donkey Kong infringed upon the King Kong trademark.

It is unknown if this character is even supposed to be Donkey Kong to begin with, or a earlier concept that eventually evolved into Donkey Kong, as the illustration was not discussed in more detail during the actual case. Either way, this design resembles a bear more than a gorilla.

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Extremely rare officially licensed 1988 towel depicting Mario and Luigi skateboarding.

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Top: "Shine Runners" is a battle mode found in Mario Kart DS, whereby drivers must collect Shine Sprites and then try to hang on to as many of them as possible, avoiding being hit and having their Shine Sprites stolen.

Bottom: it is possible that this name is actually a reference to the Prohibition era in the United States, where production, transport, and sale of alcohol was forbidden from 1920 to 1933. Cars specifically modified to be fast to be able to escape law enforcement while transporting moonshine were colloquially called "moonshine runners" or "shine runners" for short.

Whether this is an intentional reference to smuggling alcohol is unknown, but is notable even if it is a coincidence.

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The StreetPass Mii Plaza Puzzle Swap puzzle "Mario and Bowser" features a rotating platform displaying Mario, Bowser and Luigi with their arms folded.

Here is a view of the models in a model viewer, which allows them to be seen more closely than the low-resolution Nintendo 3DS screen.

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It is well known that in Super Mario 64, the mirror room in Peach's Castle is not an actual mirror (since the Nintendo 64 would be incapable of creating real-time reflections in this manner) and is instead merely a copy of the room behind a pane of glass.

The mirror side of the room contains Mirror Mario, who is a separately coded object from Mario and as such is subject to several discrepancies that make him perform different actions from the real Mario under specific circumstances.

The biggest discrepancy is what happens when Mario actually enters the Snowman's Land wall/painting. Since the real Mario unloads at that point, and Mirror Mario is programmed to copy whatever real Mario is doing (but cannot himself unload), he assumes a standard pose (what would be a T-pose in most games, but is an A-pose in this one) instead.

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Super Mario Odyssey contains unused code for a "CeilingKeep" state for Mario that does not resemble anything found in the finished game, or in Mario games in general, which can only be described as "ceiling with ice floor puzzle mechanics".

A typical ice floor puzzle in a video game will take away the player's control upon stepping on a slippery surface and make characters keep moving in a straight line until they either leave the ice floor or hit an obstacle.

This state confers the same ability, bafflingly, to a ceiling instead. The ceiling would "grab hold" of Mario, make him move without player input in the direction he was facing when he touched it, and only let go when he reached the end of the ceiling.

What this could have been used for, and what such a ceiling could have looked like, is unknown.

Top: a diagram of the state. Bottom: an example of an ice puzzle, the Ice Path in the Generation II Pokémon series games.

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Extremely rare 1995 Nintendo of America employee jacket with an embroidered Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong design.

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In Super Mario Odyssey, one of the compliments Mario receives from Cappy after performing impressive feats is "Amazing! I'd take my hat off to you, but..."

This is referencing the fact that Cappy's species, the Bonneters, have two forms: a "ghost form" in which they appear as a small ghost with nub arms (similar to a Boo) wearing a hat, and a "hat form" in which they are only the hat itself. Since their eyes are on the hat in both forms, it is logical to assume that the hat is the main/essential part of their being and the ghost body is an auxiliary construct. As such, the possibility of them being able to remove the hat seems very unlikely.

However, if we assume that such a thing is possible, i.e. that a Bonneter can remove the hat while remaining embodied in just the ghost part, then Cappy's model is not actually fully modeled enough to see what that would look like. As the top of his ghost body is always covered by the hat, it is missing from the model.

Still, Cappy's sister Tiara does have a fully modeled ghost body underneath her veil. This allows us to view at least her in this hypothetical "hat off" form, and if Cappy were to have one, it would likely look very similar to this.

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In the kiosk demo version of Mario Kart DS, some of the paintings on the Luigi's Mansion track actually moved, shaking and bulging out as though trying to escape in case of the Boo paintings, and simply shaking in case of the Chauncey paintings, as seen in the footage.

This was removed completely in the finished version of the game for an unknown reason.

However, the functionality was restored when the track was brought back for Mario Kart 7, though with the alteration that all paintings in that version are Boo paintings and as such all of them move, instead of only specific ones like in the Mario Kart DS demo.

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In Super Mario Bros. 3 (shown here in the Super Mario All-Stars version, but equally applicable to the NES and GBA versions), Boomerang Bros. are coded to have a 50% chance to jump every 256 frames (4.26 seconds).

However, the timer used to count these frames is not tied to whether the game is actually running, and continues counting even when the game is paused. As such, if the game is paused while the Boomerang Bro is in the middle of a jump, and unpaused when it is time for him to jump again, the Boomerang Bro will do a mid-air jump.

This is shown in the footage, where three lengthy pauses are used to force the Boomerang Bro to make a quadruple jump. With enough patience and either luck or tool-assisted luck manipulation, it is possible to make the Boomerang Bro ascend up to an arbitrary height, including completely off the top of the level.

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