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sis does shadow hand bra .. !!

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In the PC and Mac version of Mario is Missing, one of the locations visited by Luigi is the Guinness Brewery in Dublin, which uses this image as its background.

This is baffling since Guinness is famously a dark stout beer (nearly black in color), while the image depicts a regular light beer, in a way failing to correctly depict the one thing it was meant to be depicting.

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refuge from the rain ..

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refuge from the rain ..

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some easterly things

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Illustration of Mario running away from Bull's-Eye Bills (known as "Missile Bills" at the time) in a unique style, seen in a 1988 Japanese guide for Super Mario Bros. 3.

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Source: Katsu Famicom N.21 (Japan)

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Original illustration of Boos from a 1988 Japanese Super Mario Bros. 3 guide.

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Super Mario Sunshine splash page from a 2002 issue of the Nintendo Dream magazine.

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A 1991 Toys "R" Us commercial featured live-action footage with video games superimposed over it, to illustrate lines such as "You couldn't get enough of it, you ate Nintendo, drank Nintendo, slept Nintendo" and "so now you can breathe Nintendo, love Nintendo, be Nintendo".

The Mario-related segments of the commercial feature surreal footage of boys eating a plate of Super Mario Bros. 2, drinking a glass of Super Mario Bros. 3, and physically turning into Super Mario World, respectively.

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Public art installation featuring Mario, exhibited at the Italian town of Pietrasanta in 2025. The statue was made by sculptor Filippo Tincolini as part of a "Human Connections" exhibition, which according to the artist is supposed to "reimagine digital icons as modern myths".

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Toys ‘NiGHTS Into Dreams…’ SEGA Saturn

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The files of Donkey Kong Country 3 contain an unused block of text that seems to contain most of Klubba's dialogue from Donkey Kong Country 2. However, the text has been pasted into the files haphazardly and without any formatting, resulting in a "stream of consciousness" style frenzied rant.

Note also that due to the random cropping of the text, it starts off with an incomplete phrase ("u have plenty of. lives!") and ends with an equally incomplete phrase ("Y'must be jokin if I'm gonna let ye across fer t").

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Hazel shapeshifting animation

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When you need to check in on the girlies:

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Bizarre Lakitu variation drawn in the style of the Mario & Luigi series, posted by Masanori Sato, the illustrator for Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, on his Instagram account.

Whether this was used directly during the development of a game as concept art or is merely artwork based on his own ideas that did not make it into any game is unknown.

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I will get there

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Star Fox Guard for the Wii U contains two enemy robots that reference the Mario series.

Left: the BOO Unit is based on a Boo, as evident by its name, white spherical shape and visible tongue. Interestingly, the way the front panel opens upward makes it resemble a triangular headband worn by ghosts in Japanese folklore (seen in Nintendo games e.g. with Wisp from the Animal Crossing series).

Right: the Nabbot is based on Nabbit. In addition to the similar appearance, they also steal resources, similarly to Nabbit.

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