| 1 | Mar 23, '23 | A 1996 Super Mario 64 manga suggests that 1-Up Mushrooms grow from the bodies of dead Marios, perpetuating the cycle of life and death. | 43.7× | 7.2M | 121k | 15k | 4.6k |
| 2 | Apr 16, '24 | In Super Mario 64, Bob-ombs will spontaneously explode if they approach signs. However, this only applies to signs with text on them; they are completely fine with arrow signs. Thi | 34.8× | 5.7M | 42k | 5.8k | 3.3k |
| 3 | Jun 23, '23 | Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope contains fan art in its files. An unused image depicts Rosalina playing the guitar, which is taken from 2018 fan art by @franmm127 (based on Super Ma | 32.8× | 5.4M | 16k | 1.7k | 763 |
| 4 | Apr 19, '23 | Due to being a repackaging of a SNES game on a Wii disc, the 2010 Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition has a staggering amount of unused disc space. The game uses only ca. 12 mega | 26.8× | 4.4M | 33k | 3.3k | 1.3k |
| 5 | Sep 17, '24 | Roy is the only Koopaling who can be defeated more than once in a single playthrough of Super Mario Bros. 3. In fact, players wishing to maximize their gameplay must take the Quadr | 25.4× | 4.2M | 28k | 3.4k | 3k |
| 6 | Mar 3, '24 | This month's experimental post: I frequently receive questions about certain aspects of my personal life, my Mario game preferences, and my history with Mario and the blog. The doc | 20× | 3.3M | 26k | 2.4k | 2.4k |
| 7 | Apr 20, '23 | Instead of displaying the frame rate as a number in debug mode, Super Mario Strikers uses an "FPS Smiler" that dynamically adjusts its facial expression from green and smiling (hig | 18.8× | 3.1M | 19k | 2.2k | 1.1k |
| 8 | Jun 18, '24 | A humorous note: as pointed out to me by many readers, the logo of Mario & Luigi: Brothership can be cropped to "Mario Broth". Interestingly, over the series's 43-year history, | 17.4× | 2.9M | 33k | 3.9k | 1.3k |
| 9 | Jun 14, '24 | Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels uses a "brother byte" to determine the current brother. There are two valid brothers: Mario and Luigi, and 254 invalid ones. Out of them, only th | 17.4× | 2.9M | 26k | 4k | 4k |
| 10 | Feb 14, '24 | Yoshi's Safari has an anti-piracy measure where it tricks the system into doing something the cartridge should not be able to do, and locks up if the action succeeds. The below ima | 17.1× | 2.8M | 42k | 4.4k | 3.5k |
| 11 | Jul 15, '24 | During a sad moment in the ending of Super Mario Sunshine, Bowser appears to have a tear in his eye. However, this is actually a hole in his eye through which the sky is visible. A | 16.8× | 2.8M | 20k | 1.6k | 1.2k |
| 12 | Mar 15, '25 | In Super Mario Odyssey, a Pokio can destroy a metal crate by stabbing it with its beak 200 times in a row. | 14.3× | 2.3M | 24k | 1.4k | 1.4k |
| 13 | Oct 17, '24 | With your incredible support, I am overjoyed to announce that not only will I be able to run Supper Mario Broth full time, but I will be able to also invest into material and equip | 12.6× | 2.1M | 53k | 5.1k | 1.8k |
| 14 | Feb 17, '25 | By performing an absurdly lengthy and precise series of actions in Super Mario 64 (detailed in the video), Mario will be able to reach an incredibly narrow seam that allows him to | 12.5× | 2.1M | 23k | 1.7k | 2.1k |
| 15 | Mar 9, '23 | 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie concept art for Toad. | 10.5× | 1.7M | 30k | 2.1k | 755 |
| 16 | Oct 11, '23 | Extremely rare officially licensed 1996 Donkey Kong squeaky hammer plush from Japan. The hammer is embedded in Donkey Kong's body, so that he must be held by the handle and struck | 10.1× | 1.7M | 20k | 2.7k | 1.8k |
| 17 | Aug 23, '25 | In Donkey Kong Bananza, DK follows objects of interest with his eyes. However, he has an incredibly short attention span. Whenever a new object enters his vision, his attention is | 10.0× | 1.6M | 50k | 3.6k | 3.7k |
| 18 | Nov 5, '23 | In Super Mario 3D World, the unique properties of Double Cherries allow two characters to swap bodies permanently. The diagram below outlines the steps necessary to make the entiti | 9.8× | 1.6M | 19k | 2.9k | 1.9k |
| 19 | Mar 15, '23 | Despite looking much more detailed, the model for the coins in Super Mario Odyssey is actually 65% simpler than the one used in Super Mario Galaxy, due to taking advantage of moder | 8.5× | 1.4M | 25k | 3.2k | 1.5k |
| 20 | Nov 11, '23 | In the source code of Super Mario Bros., the goal pole is referred to by a variety of misspelled names, including "gorl pole", "goul flag", "gole pole", or simply "girl". In additi | 8.5× | 1.4M | 19k | 3.5k | 1.4k |
| 21 | Jan 26, '23 | Super Mario 64 contains unused eye textures for Mario depicting him looking down, up, and to the sides. | 7.8× | 1.3M | 18k | 2k | 684 |
| 22 | Nov 28, '24 | In New Super Mario Bros., Mario cannot use a Mega Mushroom in Toad Houses. Assuming the Mega Mario form in these locations reveals that the special Question Blocks cannot be destro | 7.5× | 1.2M | 23k | 2.6k | 2.8k |
| 23 | Dec 17, '22 | In Super Mario RPG, Mario never closes other people's doors after himself. If he opens a door and walks away, the door will remain open. The only exception is the door to his own h | 7.4× | 1.2M | 19k | 2.5k | 509 |
| 24 | Oct 18, '24 | My thank you message, and plans for the near future. I still cannot believe this. My gratitude is beyond words. I welcome any suggestions on what new kinds of content you would lik | 7.3× | 1.2M | 37k | 4.1k | 2.3k |
| 25 | Mar 19, '25 | In Super Mario 64/DS, drowning overrides other death animations. As such, if the player character dies from fall damage while about to swim, he will appear to be so bad at swimming | 6.3× | 1M | 22k | 2.5k | 2.3k |
| 26 | Dec 25, '22 | Normally, hitting characters with Star Bits in Super Mario Galaxy will briefly disorient them, after which they quickly return to normal. However, hitting Banktoad in the purple co | 6.0× | 988k | 21k | 2.2k | 490 |
| 27 | Sep 7, '25 | In Super Mario Odyssey, kicking things is Mario's highest priority, overriding all other actions. If a kickable object, such as a football, is thrown at Mario while he is asleep, h | 5.8× | 955k | 47k | 4.9k | 4.3k |
| 28 | Jun 23, '24 | Officially licensed Luigi mustard from Germany. | 5.8× | 947k | 24k | 2.8k | 1.7k |
| 29 | Mar 30, '24 | In NES Remix for the Wii U, the graphic used to preview Super Mario Bros. is actually cropped in-game. Extracting it from the files to view the full image reveals that the screensh | 5.6× | 923k | 17k | 2.1k | 1.1k |
| 30 | Sep 19, '25 | In the character selection screen of Mario Kart Wii, the princesses have tiny biker versions of themselves hidden inside their bodies. This is due to the game loading both the dres | 4.9× | 812k | 19k | 1.4k | 1.6k |
| 31 | Oct 4, '25 | Artwork used internally at DIC Entertainment during the production of the Super Mario World cartoon, replacing Marge Simpson with Mario. According to a former DIC employee, this wa | 4.9× | 809k | 18k | 2.4k | 2.7k |
| 32 | Sep 16, '25 | In Mario Kart World, NPCs will park their cars, exit them, and walk around. However, the game does not actually keep track who each car belongs to. As such, a different NPC than th | 4.9× | 802k | 20k | 1.7k | 1.7k |
| 33 | Mar 16, '24 | In Super Mario Maker 2, while one might expect there to be some events that could wake up a Koopa sleeping at the wheel of a Koopa Troopa Car, absolutely nothing except Mario appro | 4.7× | 771k | 16k | 2.5k | 1.1k |
| 34 | Oct 16, '24 | In Mario Kart Wii, the eye hidden behind Rosalina's hair always mirrors the visible eye. As such, whenever she looks to the side, the eye mirrors the outward motion and causes her | 4.5× | 736k | 17k | 1.5k | 1.2k |
| 35 | Oct 16, '23 | The Japanese-only Mario's Super Picross contains a rare instance of dry humor from Mario when he pretends to formally apologize to the player when the Wario puzzles are unlocked. | 4.3× | 700k | 17k | 2.2k | 674 |
| 36 | Oct 31, '25 | In Super Mario Odyssey, there is a single Luigi who is somehow too much for the Nintendo Switch to handle. Bringing the camera close to this 8-bit Luigi in Metro Kingdom at night w | 4.1× | 673k | 22k | 1.4k | 1.8k |
| 37 | Jun 12, '24 | In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Piranha Plants in the audience sometimes eat people seated next to them. On particularly unfortunate occasions, this can even happen to Luig | 4.1× | 668k | 24k | 3.7k | 1.6k |
| 38 | Mar 25, '23 | Whenever Mario remains idle for long enough in Super Mario Odyssey, he will fall asleep, whereupon a bird native to the area may land on his nose. However, there is an extremely ra | 4.0× | 665k | 17k | 1.9k | 507 |
| 39 | Nov 2, '23 | In Super Mario Sunshine, the sun is the most important element, being featured prominently in the title, plot and gameplay of the game. However, despite this, in Episode 6 of Bianc | 4.0× | 662k | 18k | 2k | 559 |
| 40 | Jan 30, '23 | A Game Boy test cartridge used internally at Nintendo to diagnose problems with the hardware contains a graphics test that consists of ten Raccoon Marios marching around a monolith | 3.8× | 627k | 15k | 2.1k | 511 |
| 41 | Jun 18, '24 | The Mario & Luigi series is known for its use of squash and stretch in 2D animation. Mario & Luigi: Brothership appears to continue this tradition in 3D by dynamically defo | 3.7× | 615k | 21k | 2.5k | 1.1k |
| 42 | Dec 30, '24 | Extremely rare "Forklift Certified Mario" pin, awarded to Nintendo of America warehouse employees in the late 1980s for passing certification to operate Class 1 forklifts. | 3.5× | 582k | 26k | 2.8k | 1.8k |
| 43 | Aug 29, '24 | After deliberating on the situation, I have decided that I do not wish to stop posting. Instead, I will implement the following NEW RULES that should address most issues with the b | 3.2× | 534k | 20k | 1.1k | 964 |
| 44 | Jun 22, '24 | The Super Mario World Boo sprite has a distinctive 6-pixel wavy mouth. An obscure sprite from the SNES version of Yoshi's Cookie removes one pixel from the mouth, making it resembl | 3.2× | 533k | 17k | 2.3k | 1.1k |
| 45 | Sep 22, '20 | An extremely detailed 2018 Waluigi render shows that the "Γ" emblem on his hat is a sticker, as a corner is peeling off. This suggests that unlike Mario, Luigi and Wario, who have | 3.2× | 0 | 46k | 7.7k | 1.1k |
| 46 | Aug 3, '24 | In WarioWare: Get It Together, Dr. Crygor's posterior is fully modeled in a dubiously detailed fashion despite never being seen in-game. | 2.9× | 470k | 18k | 2.3k | 1.2k |
| 47 | May 7, '22 | According to a 2017 study by a team of Canadian neuropsychologists, playing Super Mario 64 increases grey matter in the brains of older adults, potentially being able to combat dem | 2.9× | 0 | 44k | 5.1k | 2k |
| 48 | Nov 4, '21 | In 1994, Nintendo made a public event at a Dutch airport where 10,000 counterfeit Game Boy games they confiscated in the Netherlands were ran over by a steamroller, to send a messa | 2.6× | 0 | 38k | 5.8k | 1.5k |
| 49 | Oct 31, '22 | Super Mario Galaxy contains zones called "NoSleepAreas", placed wherever it would be inappropriate for Mario to fall asleep when idling, such as in boss battles. However, no such z | 2.5× | 0 | 39k | 5.7k | 1k |
| 50 | Jan 15, '19 | There exists one piece of in-game evidence in favor of the widespread Internet joke that Yoshi does not pay his taxes: in Fortune Street, Yoshi is the only one out of 26 characters | 2.4× | 0 | 27k | 11k | 409 |
| 51 | May 28, '22 | I have recently received inquiries about my personal collection of Mario merchandise. Below is a photo of all Mario merchandise I own. It is a single officially licensed 2011 keych | 2.4× | 0 | 33k | 6.6k | 1.6k |
| 52 | Oct 8, '24 | In the intro to Super Mario 3D World, Bowser appears while halfway inside a clear pipe. The inside of the pipe is obscured with smoke, but extracting the model shows that Bowser's | 2.4× | 388k | 16k | 1.5k | 1k |
| 53 | Jul 18, '21 | Human DNA has an information storage capacity that very neatly fits the size of a GameCube game. Thus, it would be possible with gene editing technology to store a copy of e.g. Sup | 2.2× | 0 | 27k | 6.9k | 1k |
| 54 | Feb 18, '25 | In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Goombas actually look at invisible blocks to provide a subtle hint to the player. Please observe the Goomba in the footage closely. | 2.0× | 336k | 19k | 1.3k | 1k |
| 55 | Mar 23, '20 | In light of the recent news that the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are being postponed until 2021, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 now has the unique distinction of being b | 2.0× | 0 | 28k | 6.8k | 271 |
| 56 | Jun 7, '22 | A quiz from an officially licensed 2002 Burger King/Nintendo activity book reveals that Donkey Kong was born in the UK. | 2.0× | 0 | 33k | 3k | 739 |
| 57 | Oct 6, '22 | This particular shot from the Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer may be a reference to a similar shot from the ending of Super Mario Galaxy. | 2.0× | 0 | 34k | 3k | 594 |
| 58 | Mar 6, '22 | 2018 unauthorized inspirational Luigi pillow from China. | 1.8× | 0 | 28k | 4.1k | 496 |
| 59 | Feb 9, '22 | Out of the recurring female human characters in the Mario series, only Daisy regularly has teeth. This affects both official art and in-game models; in the vast majority of cases, | 1.7× | 0 | 27k | 2.3k | 1.1k |
| 60 | Apr 26, '22 | To promote the launch of Donkey Kong Country Returns in 2010, Nintendo Australia set up a life-size recreation of Donkey Kong's Banana Hoard in a harbor in Sydney. | 1.6× | 0 | 27k | 2.6k | 418 |
| 61 | Feb 17, '22 | In Super Mario 64, there is a specific spot near the top of Tall, Tall Mountain where failing to grab a ledge will result in Mario comically falling down the entirety of the mounta | 1.6× | 0 | 24k | 4k | 627 |
| 62 | Oct 2, '22 | In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, after Peach pulls out Toad during her neutral special move, Toad will shrink to an extremely small size before unloading. Here is a closer view at Toad | 1.6× | 0 | 26k | 2.5k | 548 |
| 63 | Nov 11, '21 | In Super Mario Galaxy 2, Peach periodically sends letters to Mario. Each of these has its own text, but that text actually overwrites preexisting nonsense text included in the lett | 1.6× | 0 | 22k | 3.9k | 690 |
| 64 | Jul 3, '22 | Huey's model in Paper Mario: Color Splash is immensely smooth, resulting in an extremely high number of polygons. In fact, it takes more processing power to display Huey than it wo | 1.6× | 0 | 25k | 3k | 745 |
| 65 | Dec 7, '21 | Photo of an incident during the 2002 recording of the North American commercial for Mario Party 4, where the actor playing Yoshi fell into the pool and needed to be rescued while s | 1.6× | 0 | 24k | 3.3k | 717 |
| 66 | Sep 8, '22 | The Chinese version of New Super Mario Bros. Wii replaces the character icons with high-definition textures. For an unknown reason, the texture for Luigi's icon is squished and the | 1.5× | 0 | 26k | 2.2k | 588 |
| 67 | Jan 27, '19 | The 1995 Japanese guide for Mario's Super Picross contains a short comic built on the same premise as the American Mario cartoons - that Mario and Luigi have a plumbing business in | 1.4× | 0 | 17k | 5.1k | 463 |
| 68 | May 5, '19 | The Piranha Plant fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has legs that appear briefly during certain animations (left). The legs are never completely extended out of the pot. On the | 1.3× | 0 | 19k | 4k | 143 |
| 69 | Aug 18, '19 | An official render of Toadette for Super Mario Maker 2 contains the most realistic depiction of a piece of Nintendo hardware in artwork for a first-party Nintendo game to date: a J | 1.3× | 0 | 20k | 3.5k | 178 |
| 70 | Jun 14, '22 | Paper Mario contains an unused message reading simply "a". Here is what it looks like when loaded in-game. | 1.3× | 0 | 20k | 2.6k | 365 |
| 71 | Sep 4, '22 | Clay Luigi figurine submitted anonymously to Nintendo Power in 2008. The Nintendo Power staff dubbed it "Homunculuigi". | 1.3× | 0 | 19k | 3.1k | 706 |
| 72 | Aug 6, '19 | Image of an unused Yoshi skin for horses found in the data of the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack DLC for Minecraft: Wii U Edition. | 1.3× | 0 | 19k | 3.2k | 162 |
| 73 | Mar 7, '22 | On higher difficulties in Mario Party Superstars, CPU players may cheat by using Custom Dice Blocks to land precisely on spaces with hidden blocks, despite this knowledge being sup | 1.2× | 0 | 19k | 2.6k | 644 |
| 74 | Jul 31, '22 | Out of all mainline Mario games, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy rely most heavily on pre-rendered cutscenes, to the point that the data of both games is comprised most | 1.2× | 0 | 21k | 2k | 507 |
| 75 | Jun 18, '19 | In Super Mario Odyssey, the game does not handle Mario's legs being on two different slopes correctly, with him appearing to stand halfway in mid-air (left). In contrast, Super Mar | 1.2× | 0 | 18k | 3.4k | 179 |
| 76 | May 13, '22 | In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, when Luigi tells Mario the lengthy stories of his adventures, Mario and almost all of his partners fall asleep. The only partner who remains | 1.2× | 0 | 20k | 2.1k | 450 |
| 77 | Dec 30, '21 | Officially licensed 2019 Japan-exclusive Yoshi oven mitts. | 1.2× | 0 | 19k | 2.4k | 362 |
| 78 | Oct 10, '21 | Nintendo of America's official soundtracks for Yoshi's Story and Diddy Kong Racing were released on CDs shaped like the characters' heads. The irregular shape made them impossible | 1.2× | 0 | 18k | 2.6k | 471 |
| 79 | Jan 6, '22 | It is well known that Daisy's trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee has an eye hidden at the back of her head. The eye texture is actually tiled across the entirety of her head, and th | 1.2× | 0 | 17k | 2.3k | 546 |
| 80 | Mar 13, '20 | Characters in Super Mario Galaxy have low, middle and high-quality models, arranged here from left to right. Luigi's middle-quality model has multiple versions of parts of his body | 1.2× | 0 | 17k | 3k | 320 |
| 81 | Aug 8, '22 | Due to the outfits available to Mario and Peach in Super Mario Odyssey, it is possible to take a glimpse of an alternate universe scenario where their roles would be swapped, by co | 1.2× | 0 | 20k | 1.9k | 492 |
| 82 | Dec 2, '22 | One of the 1996 officially licensed Mario quiz cards depicts Mario's father. | 1.1× | 0 | 20k | 1.7k | 424 |
| 83 | Feb 12, '22 | Original CGI animation made for a 2006 Taiwanese TV news report about the release of the Nintendo Wii. Mario bursts into a room with children playing the GameCube and kicks it away | 1.1× | 0 | 18k | 2.4k | 631 |
| 84 | Apr 10, '19 | Today, the first ever photograph of a black hole was released to the astrophysical community (right). While the depiction of a black hole made in Super Mario Galaxy (left) 12 years | 1.1× | 0 | 16k | 3.7k | 105 |
| 85 | May 12, '19 | In Super Mario Odyssey, Mario is able to fall asleep off edges of platforms, appearing to float. However, in Super Mario 64, code exists that checks whether there is ground behind | 1.1× | 0 | 16k | 3.4k | 132 |
| 86 | Aug 15, '22 | In Super Mario Odyssey, there are two NPCs sitting on a bench in Bowser's Kingdom. With a precise jump, Mario can land in a spot not covered by either of their collision, allowing | 1.1× | 0 | 18k | 2k | 393 |
| 87 | Sep 21, '22 | Photo of "Toad bread" posted in 2018 on Nintendo's official Japanese LINE account. | 1.1× | 0 | 16k | 3.2k | 399 |
| 88 | Apr 8, '22 | Many of the courses in Super Mario 64 have about the same polygonal complexity as Mario himself, with some even having fewer polygons than he does. In many places in the game, the | 1.1× | 0 | 17k | 2.2k | 543 |
| 89 | Nov 17, '21 | In Super Mario 64, the collision of the crystals in the Bowser in the Dark World stage has a tiny opening at the top. If Mario performs a precise Ground Pound above the crystal whe | 1.1× | 0 | 17k | 2.1k | 334 |
| 90 | Jul 29, '22 | Today, Super Mario World turns exactly one billion seconds old. | 1.1× | 0 | 17k | 2.6k | 232 |
| 91 | May 11, '20 | Group photo of the actors and costume designers of the North American commercial for Super Smash Bros., taken immediately after finishing filming. | 1.1× | 0 | 16k | 2.8k | 238 |
| 92 | Aug 1, '22 | The 2006 British print ad campaign for Mario Kart DS attempted to appeal to people who dislike Australians. | 1.1× | 0 | 17k | 2k | 465 |
| 93 | Oct 12, '22 | A 2000 Australian commercial for the Game Boy Color featured a scene where an explosion knocks the fur off Donkey Kong, revealing that his limbs are skinny underneath. | 1.0× | 0 | 17k | 1.7k | 501 |
| 94 | Mar 31, '22 | In 2017, the German official Mario Kart Facebook account posted this image of SNES Rainbow Road from Mario Kart 8, which translates to "IN HELL THERE IS NO FIRE, ONLY COLORFUL ROAD | 1.0× | 0 | 16k | 2.4k | 420 |
| 95 | Jan 23, '21 | In Super Mario Sunshine, fruit is not reflected in mirrors. | 1.0× | 0 | 17k | 1.5k | 106 |
| 96 | Dec 19, '20 | Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 contains unused functionality to display low-polygon versions of drivers if they are far away from the camera. If it is enabled, drivers turn into low-qualit | 1.0× | 0 | 16k | 2.1k | 282 |
| 97 | Nov 11, '22 | Unlicensed Mario statue sold by UK garden furniture shop Aston Garden Ornaments, named "ITALIAN MAN". | 1.0× | 0 | 17k | 1.7k | 318 |
| 98 | Jun 9, '22 | In Mario Party 4, if debug functionality is used to access the final Bowser minigame without selecting a character, the player will be assigned Mario stuck in a default pose. Bizar | 1.0× | 0 | 16k | 1.9k | 466 |
| 99 | Oct 23, '21 | The Baby Yoshi model used in New Super Mario Bros. U is not optimized for being seen from the front. The game attempts to mask this by only showing Baby Yoshis from the front very | 1.0× | 0 | 16k | 1.9k | 326 |
| 100 | Mar 19, '22 | The largest height difference between Mario and Luigi as depicted in a game was in Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, where Luigi is 32% taller than Mario. | 0.9× | 0 | 15k | 1.4k | 337 |
| 101 | Sep 13, '17 | All content posted on this account complies with a veracity policy that is outlined in this pinned Tweet for easy reference. | 0.2× | 0 | 3.9k | 120 | 168 |