[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.
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[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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For years pranksters have been saying that Mr. L and Luigi are actually the same character, but this PROVES once and for all that they're actually different!
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so sad we never learned who mr. L really was he was really cool
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why did they do this to him. In his only game no less........
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In Super Paper Mario, Mr. L is actually much smaller than Mario and Luigi, and gets scaled up at runtime. The game was originally developed for the GameCube before moving to Wii; Mario and Luigi received new Wii graphics while Mr. L was stuck with small GameCube textures.
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The firey cave Princess Daisy & Captain Toad were standing in, but zoomed out. You can see they're in a little nook in the top right of the picture, seemingly disconnected from the rest of the cavern. The title card that says the location's name says "???" (with a greyed-out icon).
worth noting that No, i do Not know where we are. sorry man
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you'll find captain toad and he'll go "omg you found me! hiiii! here's like fifty flower coins / power moon / ect.. Do you know where we are btw. im a little lost lol" and you're in like the ruins of the chernobyl nuclear power plant or something
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Princess Daisy, currently using a Fire Flower, is talking to Captain Toad in some dark cave. He says, "I was searching for treasure, and then I started wondering...
Ditto. Captain Toad says, "Is anyone searching for... me? I'm completely lost."
Ditto. Captain Toad says, "Anyway, where are we? Do you know?"
#NintendoSwitch #SuperMarioBrosWonder my poor guy is always in some situation 😭😭😭
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making this huge wandering freak more lethal
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Flowchart titled Bluetooth Troubleshooting with only One option "Is the bluetooth working right?" > No > Yeah sorry bluetooth just kinda sucks
Bluetooth troubleshooting
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My Starbucks coffee cup came labelled with the name "Solid Snake".
It can be frustrating when you give them a name as simple as "David", but they still misspell it.
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what if everyone was a wizard and a liar and a sick opportunist (thought bubble above my head) and gay (another separate thought bubble)
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Полное Прохождение Особенности Национальной Рыбалки (PC) (Без комментариев)
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www.youtube.com/v/qQoK3DDGf5I dunno if you looked already but ive sent myself down a rabbit hole and this apparently came out in 2004, which is, like, several years later than i wouldve guessed LOL. i speak no russian and have never seen this movie so this will be interesting if/when i play it 😭
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for real. and also i looked it up, its a russian adventure game based on a russian movie of the same name? im SOLD. i mean i was sold at "fishing game" but
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holy shit boss no you have a Right to be bitter. EIGHT YEARS??? what an asshole jesus christ
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PUZZLE 1389
You solved it!
"The Phantom of the Opera (... cut off)"
guess #12: webber
guess #11: phantom (116 matches)
guess #10: opera (47 matches)
guess #9: old (0 matches)
do not doubt my dorkiness. anyway two for two on opera articles thus far. if i had a nickel ect ect
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Redactle | Wikipedia based Puzzle Game
The most popular, fully featured, ad-free Redactle game! Daily puzzles with no ads, multiplayer, device sync, smart word matching and more. Your mission is to unveil the title of the redacted Wikipedi...
I solved Redactle #1389 in 42 guesses with an accuracy of 81.0% and a time of 00:05:13. Play at redactle.net LET IT BE KNOWN I GOT IT WAY FASTER I JUST COULDNT FIGURE OUT THE SECOND TO LAST WORD IN THE ARTICLE TITLE. they wanted the year as soon as i realised yhat i went Ohhhh
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SO fucked up that it said "console: pc, ps4, xbox one" and i thought oh it must be pretty recent! and it was from 2015
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message from "uncle sam will be a genial host" at 3:01 P.M.
> mona i found the perfect game for you
> [link to redactle dot anybrowser dot com]
message from "$10 million in solid gold bars" at 3:19 P.M.
> Oh my god
another message from "$10 million in solid gold bars" at 4:49 P.M.
> i solved todays one
[uncle sam's profile picture is of a na'vi from avatar. gold bars' profile picture is statler, the muppet.]
the time was admittedly probably more than an hour cause i started on the site she sent me but it rec'd me another site and that one did work much better
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i CANNOT believe it took me that long to guess the third word in the title. the first one i got pretty quickly. the second is "of"
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objectively it is less bad than him playing he-man but i don't have it in me to say it's "better" </3
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