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In the vast majority of 3D Mario games, fully modeled characters that move around have a standard default pose, known as the T-pose, where they stand upright with their arms pointed horizontally to the sides. Interestingly, Bowser’s model in Super Mario Strikers has a different default pose, depicting Bowser in a defensive position. When Bowser moves in-game, the movement data is applied to this initial state instead of a T-pose.
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Motivational image featuring Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, posted by the official Facebook account of Nintendo Australia/New Zealand in 2018.
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Unused sign found in the files of Mario Party 8.
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Promotional photo of Yoichi Kotabe, illustrator responsible for a majority of early Mario character designs and official 2D artwork from 1985 to 2007, drawing Mario in Flipnote Studio for Nintendo DSi.
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Super Mario World contains an unused regular Piranha Plant. The game contains Jumping Piranha Plants, as well as upside-down Piranha Plants, but no Piranha Plants oriented right-side up. While the head of the Piranha Plant displays correctly, the graphics for the stem have been overwritten with one of the Cheep Cheep’s “flopping on land” sprites during development.
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Illustration of Donkey Kong from a 1992 issue of the German Club Nintendo magazine. The text translates to “Junior, help me. The plumber thinks he’s a zookeeper.”
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Officially licensed 1988 “Mario Madness” T-shirt.
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