In the map screen in Super Mario Sunshine, a Yellow Yoshi in the Pinna Park brochure is seen saying something nearly unreadable: [screenshot of unreadable text] However, trying to enhance the image suggests, using the evidence provided, that he is congratulating someone named Shinko: Please accept my best wishes for your marriage, Shinko! Shinko Konishi is a map designer who has worked at Nintendo since 2000. In 2001, she worked with programmer Yoshitaka Takeshita on Animal Crossing: Field Design Jun Takamura Shinko Konishi Program Masaro Sakakibara Makoto Sasaki Nobuhiro Sumiyoshi Yoshitaka Takeshita Hiroshi Umemiya In Super Mario Sunshine, Yoshitaka Takeshita was not involved, and her name was still Shinko Konishi: MAP DESIGN Hiromu Takemura Atsushi Miyagi Shinko Konishi Taeko Sugawara However, in Super Mario 64 DS, they work together again (in the same roles), and now Shinko's last name is Takeshita: MAP & LEVEL DESIGN MINI-GAME PROGRAMMING JUN TAKAMURA SHINKO TAKESHITA EIJI MUKAD YUJI SAHATANI YUKARI SUZUKI YOSHITAKA TAKESHITA EIJI NISHIKAWA This all is extremely strong evidence that Shinko was engaged to Yoshitaka during the production of Super Mario Sunshine. As the Yoshi image would have been made by someone on the map design team, they would have worked closely with Shinko and used this opportunity to congratulate her. Source: YouTube user @Choa, Discord user "Andrat"

In Super Mario Sunshine, the Pinna Park map screen brochure features a Yoshi saying something nearly indecipherable. However, it turns out there is compelling evidence that he is congratulating a map designer on her upcoming wedding to a programmer at Nintendo.

In Donkey Kong Country Returns, a rare glitch can occur upon visiting Cranky Kong, where he will refuse to talk to Donkey Kong and instead sit in silence forever. The player will be unable to leave his shop, requiring the game to be reset.

Comparison of rainbow color schemes used in textures of various Rainbow Roads in the Mario Kart franchise [various rainbow color swatches] Please note that due to addition of rainbow filters at runtime, the textures do not always reflect the in-game appearance of the tracks. Source: noclip.website, textures extracted from game files by Supper Mario Broth

A comparison of the colors used in the textures of various Rainbow Road tracks in the Mario Kart franchise.

The Super Mario World theme is inspired by the 1963 song "Green Green". Nintendo planned a cheeky reference to this on the Satellaview by playing Green Green with the SMW soundfont, but this went unused, possibly due to the legal consequences of acknowledging the inspiration.

In a 1993 issue of Famitsu, the magazine reached out to Nintendo Japan to answer questions related to Mario for the release of Super Mario All-Stars. One of them was about "Mario's favorite foods": 「マリオはキノコが好物なのはもちろんのこと、タマネギやピーマン、食用ギクなども好きなんですよ」(任天堂) "Mario loves mushrooms, of course, but he also likes onions, bell peppers, and edible chrysanthemums" (Nintendo) [pictures of the foods in question] Source: Weekly Famitsu (Japan), Issue 239, July 16th 1993

In 1993, the Japanese Famitsu magazine inquired Nintendo about Mario's favorite foods. Nintendo replied that Mario's favorite foods are mushrooms, onions, bell peppers, and surprisingly, edible chrysanthemums.

In Super Mario 64 DS, giant characters normally cannot crawl. However, reading a sign pounded halfway into the ground forces the character into a crawling pose. When giant, this results in the character's giant posterior completely blocking the entire screen.

Preliminal design for a 1993 Sega ad, recovered from the archives of the Brio toy company, which handled Sega's marketing in Sweden [a picture of Sonic asking "WHO THE F*CK IS MARIO?"] Final design of the ad, which replaced the attack on Mario with the slogan "Happiness can be bought for money" [a picture of Sonic saying "LYCKA KAN KÖPAS FÖR PENGAR"] Source: Martin Lindell, martinlindell.com/2019/11/24/sonic-springer-snabbt-in-i-sverige, via @FeoUltima, x.com/feoultima/status/1964670301712908579

In the spirit of April Fools' Day but without sacrificing the Supper Mario Broth veracity policy, here is a fact that seems so outlandish as to be a joke, but is actually true: in 1993, a Sega ad campaign briefly planned to use profanity to slander Mario.

In 1993, Silicon Graphics presented "Project Reality", the hardware later used in the Nintendo 64. One of the demos showed a realistic town populated by cutouts of Nintendo characters. Only two screenshots and a brief snippet of footage of it are known to exist, shown below.

[picture of a regular Thwomp] Thwomp as he appears in Super Mario Galaxy [picture of a Thwomp with no eyes and four eyes where his mouth should be] Thwomp as he would appear if his face texture was applied as-is instead of being partially mapped to different places Please note that UV mapping, the practice of applying textures to a model via coordinate projection, often results in scrambled and misplaced parts in the image. The fact that the texture is different from the finished model after projection is not itself notable. I am merely pointing out the unintentionally unsettling imagery resulting from placing the eyes into the mouth but having an otherwise intact face in this instance. [Mario texture with no eyes] A typical Mario texture (from Super Mario Party). Mario's eyes not being in their eye sockets is normal. If they were inside his mouth, however, it would be notable. Source: models.spriters-resource.com user "Peardian", models.spriters-resource.com/wii/supermariogalaxy/asset/291484/

To save space, the eyes on the Thwomp's face texture in Super Mario Galaxy are, in a manner both inventive and disconcerting, stored inside his mouth.

[picture of mug depicting Mario in front of a brick wall with stairs] Officially licensed 1992 Super Mario Bros. mug sold in Europe [picture of screenshot of Castlevania II showing the same wall in-game] Town of Jova, starting area of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest Source: ebay.com user "k_en_d_used_items", ebay.com/itm/168201531527

Extremely rare officially licensed 1992 "Mariovania" mug. While appearing to be a regular Super Mario Bros. mug, the background is actually the starting area of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. What Mario is doing in this location is not explained.

In Mario Kart Wii, crashing the game and activating the crash handler will eventually start playing back the contents of the Wii's RAM as sound. Since the data was never intended to be interpreted like this, it ends up sounding like experimental harsh noise music.

got bored last night (5 am) and drew some stuff in my little drawing book cuz why not

[screenshot of a boat in New Super Mario Bros. Wii] NICE_BOAT In World 6-6 of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a boat with a tilt-controlled spotlight appears. Internally, this object is called "NICE_BOAT". While this may simply mean the programmers thought it was a particularly nice boat, there is reason to assume it is related to the September 2007 "Nice Boat" broadcast incident. [screenshot of a TV broadcast showing live-action footage of a boat] The "Nice Boat" incident In 2007, the anime School Days was aired in Japan. The day before the final episode, which would have featured a girl committing a violent murder, a similar murder took place in real life (16-year-old girl murdered her father with an axe in Kyoto). The episode was cancelled and stock footage was played for 30 minutes in its place, featuring a boat. The boat, alongside a comment on an imageboard calling it a "nice boat", became a meme in Japan after the incident. Due to NSMBW releasing in 2009, it would have been in development at the time and it stands to reason that the developers could have been referencing the meme. Source: tcrf.net/New_Super_Mario_Bros._Wii, youtube.com/watch?v=YwortdC_014

A boat in New Super Mario Bros. Wii is called "NICE_BOAT" internally. While the developers may have simply believed it to be a particularly nice boat, there is reason to assume this is a reference to the "Nice Boat" broadcast incident where an anime episode was cancelled due to a murder.

march 18th john doe

the big johnny of does is back again

#roblox #johndoe

"Classic NES Series Trivia" was a Flash game available on Nintendo's site in 2004. The questions were loaded remotely, and could not be archived. Playing the game now results in no questions loading and a purgatory-like experience with blank choices, all of which are declared wrong.

Page 6 of the Super Mario Compact Disco 1993 Japanese booklet contains a very small photo of singer Reiko Chiba wearing a T-shirt with "Macintosh" replaced by "[profane term starting with f]intosh". Source: "Critical Kate” Willært, bsky.app/profile/katewillaert.bsky.social/post/3k3pjtc7g6d2p, Discord user "marklincadet"

Warning: profanity
A photo in the booklet for the official 1993 Super Mario Compact Disco album contains a profane shirt in a photo that likely slipped through due to be being printed so small that it requires extreme zooming in to view the swear.

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey contains an unused "Toads ramming each other rapidly" test room, containing Peach and three pairs of Toads. Talking to Peach causes the Toads to ram each other rapidly.

In Super Mario 64, if a shell-less Koopa bumps into Mario while he is asleep, he will enter a "sleepwalking" state, where all of his voice sounds are replaced by snoring. He will continue snoring even when being shot out of a cannon; the only way to wake him up is to harm him.

[Comparison of four screenshots of a Toad in the Glitz Pit lobby saying a line] Original GC version During Chapter 3 (always): "Welcome to the Glitz Pit! Here, savage battles go on each and every day!" After Chapter 3 (always): "Weck-come to da Gwitz Pit! Ow! I bit my thtupid tongue... No one mutht know!" Switch version Normally: "Welcome to the Glitz Pit! Here, savage battles go on each and every day!" Low random chance: "Weck-come to da Gwitz Pit! Ow! I bit my thtupid tongue... No one mutht know!" Source: Disable/@KoenVanBeeck, x.com/KoenVanBeeck/status/1908954596187206082

In the original GameCube version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the Glitz Pit greeter Toad always bites his tongue after Chapter 3 is over. In the Switch version, this was made into an Easter egg, whereby he always has a small chance of biting his tongue instead.

mario day 2026

whoops i almost forgot about what day it was today

Sybil - Dream Breaker

Public release of some Pseudoregalia fan art I posted on Patreon last month. Sybil is one of my absolute favorite character designs.
#furry #furryart

[A screenshot of the Nintendo Australia website flash intro from 1998. A number of official artwork renders are used for the buttons. The Yoshi button is labeled "HELP" and is altered to have smaller pupils than usual.] Source: image: https://web.archive.org/web/19980530120304fw_/http://www.nintendo.com.au/flash_index.html, info: Bluesky user @vghistory.bsky.social

The 1998 official site for Nintendo Australia had a deliberately silly aesthetic with small animations and edits to official renders. For the "HELP" button, Yoshi's pupils were made smaller than usual to give him a "concerned" expression, as though in need of help.

Nomura no Famicom Trade was a stock trading application for the Japan-only dial-up modem add-on for the Famicom. Through a Nintendo collaboration, the game featured Mario on the information screen, doing a unique little dance.

Certain models of the 2003 Motorola MPx200 clamshell phone contained a ringtone that was blatantly just the "Fever" theme from Dr. Mario with different notes.

In WarioWare: Twisted, Jimmy's boss microgame can be won instantly if the console is tilted 720° in less than half a second. In practice, this is achieved by literally physically throwing the console.

Most of the footage of the famous 2000 "Super Mario 128" tech demo was recorded with handheld cameras by the audience, with the presenter drowning out the game sound. Only 10 seconds of direct feed footage exist, which reveal that the sound was a cacophony of Marios screaming.

In Super Mario Sunshine, whenever Mario is wet, he will drip small droplets of water. This is not cosmetic; in fact, Wet Mario is so powerful he can defeat the game's first boss entirely by dripping on it, skipping obtaining FLUDD altogether.

Oh, also, some additional/bonus info for Bowbear as well! Wanted to add some of these in here when I was first planning her reference sheet, but I didn't want to overfill the actual sheet, so, I made this.

(hope it makes sense lol)

i think i might be giving her more power with the way I'm talking about her all the time, but, i can't help it she is making me lose my mind and i have nobody left to talk about this to

After a long period of time, Bowbear's reference (for 2026) has finally been made.

I unironically enjoyed making this reference sheet ngl, I can't wait to so much more with this character... or perhaps, maybe I can? I honestly don't know.

#prettyblood #bewarethebowbear

Scan and translation by Flickr user "MiloScat" Panel 1: Mario: "LUIGI! YOU'VE BEEN EATING MUSHROOMS AND HIDING IT FROM ME AGAIN, HAVEN'T YOU?" Panel 2: Luigi: "SORRY, BRO... I JUST COULDN'T RESIST..." Panel 3: Mario: "I'M NOT SAYING EATING MUSHROOMS IS A BAD THING! JUST DON'T DO IT SECRETLY IN THE TOILET!" Panel 4: Zoom out to reveal Luigi is too large to exit the toilet. Mario must go urgently. Luigi: "I'M SORRY, BRO... I'M SORRY..." Mario: "IT'S ALRIGHT, JUST GET OUT OF THERE!" Please note that the original comic was already in Western left-to-right reading order. The panels are specifically numbered in the comers to indicate the correct order to readers only familiar with Japanese manga right-to-left order. Source: flickr.com/photos/miloscat/44060649174, book: Super Mario World (APE), Japan, 1990, ISBN 4-09-104192-2

"Mushrooms are drugs" jokes are a staple of Mario humor on the Internet. Not even Nintendo themselves are strangers to this, with a comic in the official Japanese Super Mario World guide using "Luigi is consuming mushrooms secretly in the bathroom" as a setup.