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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 02/09/2026

Thinking about The Japanese game reception wiki's page for Hotel Mario

Screencap of a gcmatome page with the following writing

"t was never released in Japan and was only released on a very niche platform, so it's not very well known in Japan.
However, this is also famous as a meme overseas. The interaction between Mario and Luigi in the opening movie is particularly well-known.
The scene where Mario sounds like he's calling Luigi "gay," and then Luigi immediately follows up with the line, "I wonder if there's lots of spaghetti," which is a simplistic use of the Italian stereotype, are often parodied.
Even poorly animated movies can be surreal and funny when viewed as a joke , and are popular for a different reason.
Because only the anime portion was picked up online and became famous on its own, some people apparently didn't realize it was a game .
In English-speaking countries , a character named "Weegee," based on a misheard line about Luigi in this game and the graphics of Luigi from " Mario is Missing! ", has spread as an internet meme. See the entry for that game for more details."

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 27/08/2026

RIP Peter Cullen, who voiced Mario in the Saturday Supercade.

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 07/08/2026

The final match brings a bit of sibling rivalry with it! Vote one last time in the All-Time Favorite Character Bracket to crown the winner! www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:An...

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VGBoxArt Daily @vgboxartdaily.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Game: The Last of Us Console: PlayStation 3 Created by: KongFan2006 Uploaded on: August 2nd, 2016

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 31/07/2026

The green machines duke it out on one side, and a rivalry that once rocked the arcades reignites on the other! It's time to vote in the semi-finals! www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:An...

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Pretty crazy stuff if you haven't seen it - a game store owner had a box of Super Mario/Duck Hunt carts that turned out to be - brand new - manufactured in 1993 (!) - an extremely late variant unknown to collectors nintendowire.com/news/2026/07...

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We discovered a new variant of Super Mario Bros.

Inside, were 97 individually wrapped, brand-new copies of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt. Each game was wrapped in the same baggie that would have come in an

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 25/07/2026

It's the quarter finals! Just eight characters remain - who will survive? That's up to you! Round 3 voting of the All-Time Favorite Character Bracket is open until July 31st, vote now! www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:An...

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 25/07/2026

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Nintendo Patents Watch @ninpatentswatch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The Sep. issue of Nintendo Dream includes an in-depth dev interview re: Yoshi and the Mysterious Book (img 1 shows the interviewees; img 2 the clay models for development). • Tezuka was involved in the initial phase. Later he was tied up with SMB Wonder, so Nogami took over the Producer role. 1/

Screenshot of Nintendo Dream 2026-09 issue:
開発者インタビュー　ヨッシーとフカシギの図鑑
任天堂の野上恒さんと松宮信雄さん、開発元グッド・フィールの蛭子悦延さんと山本真裕さん登場。ふかしぎな遊びが生まれたワケをたっぷり語っていただきました。

Photo of handmade clay models of in-game creatures

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 17/07/2026

Sixteen characters remain! Who will advance into the great eight? That's up to you! Round 3 voting is open until July 24th, so stop by and cast your votes! www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:An...

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 15/07/2026

LRT: Were any of you as perturbed by the gritty realism of Super Mario 64 as Kenji Eno was

Screencap of a shmuplation article with the text "Eno: To jump right into the thick of things today, the truth is I actually haven't beaten Mario 64 yet. I love the Mario series. I used to leave my Famicom turned on for so long playing Super Mario Bros. 3 that the console would overheat. But I just haven't been able to get into Mario 64. My wife won't play it either. I kept wondering why that was, but when I first tried Mario 64 at the Shoshinkai show, I felt this incredible sense of freedom in its world. You could get carried away by a bird, run through a field of flowers and be startled by butterflies, plunge down a waterfall, or fly through the sky. It felt like you could just mess around aimlessly, and anyone who wanted to dive deeper could master it.

But with the final retail version, I felt like I had suddenly joined a really strict after-school sports club. I found myself unable to get into the mindset of meticulously reading every signpost or trying to collect dozens of stars. To me, Mario 64 was supposed to be about a very loose, free atmosphere. When I first saw Super Mario Bros., it blew my mind. There was this mustachioed middle-aged guy, pipes, mountains, sky, ground, and blocks. I was a Namco fan who preferred Pac-Man, so it was completely unexpected.

But on the N64, Princess Peach and Bowser have become so realistic, and her getting kidnapped and needing help feels so real that I can't just relax and enjoy it. It's like a yonkoma (four-panel comic) strip suddenly turned into a gritty graphic novel. I always thought of you, Miyamoto-san, as someone who draws a lot of high-quality four-panel comics. I wanted to hear your thoughts on that."

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shmuplations.com @shmuplations.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Today we have something special: a newly translated interview from July 1996 between Shigeru Miyamoto and Kenji Eno! Conducted just weeks after the launch of Mario 64, Eno takes Miyamoto to task (in a friendly way) with several fascinating critiques of its design. shmuplations.com/miyamotoxeno/

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Shigeru Miyamoto x Kenji Eno (1996) - shmuplations.com

In July 1996, Kenji Eno visited Nintendo HQ to speak with Shigeru Miyamoto as the first of his "cross-talk" series.

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 11/07/2026

The second round of our All-Time Favorite Character Bracket is live! You can cast your votes for the new matchups until July 17th, and don't miss the link to Round 1 results at the page's end! www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:An...

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 06/07/2026

Thinking about The logo for the developers of Hotel Mario

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 03/07/2026

Haven't had enough of voting in the Mario Awards? Come participate in our special All-Time Favorite Character Bracket! First round voting is open until July 10th, with a new round of the bracket opening each subsequent week! www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:An...

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

don't forget Toad

3 fans in Japan supporters section dressed as Mario, Luigi, and Toad

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 13/06/2026

Voting is now open in the Mario Awards! Come vote for the best and worst of the Mario franchise. Polls run until June 26th. www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:An...

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 30/05/2026

Issue 173 of Nintendo Dream Magazine includes a recipe for a unholy Wario-themed "Garlic cake"

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Jack Yarwood @jackgyarwood.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Some footage does exist. I downloaded two clips from (I think) an old Sega website ages ago. There were also some images of the then-president of Nintendo of America, Tatsumi Kimishima, welcoming Sonic.

Two performers in Mario and Sonic costumes play video games as part of a promotional event. Mario has his hand over Sonic's face.

Two performers in Mario and Sonic costumes play video games as part of a promotional event. Both are staring at a TV screen.

Sonic and Mario dancing together for some reason

Sonic, Nintendo of America president Tatsumi Kimishima, and Mario pose for a picture.

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 28/05/2026

According to former Sega employee Mike Fischer, when Sega signed on to publish Gamecube games, Nintendo posted a guy in a Mario costume to greet the Sonic mascot.

Sega-16: You were only at Sega this time for for a couple years. Why did you leave?

Mike Fischer: I was there there to basically put the Dreamcast to bed, but my real my real task was to shift Sega over from a first party to a third party. A big part of that was rebuilding the relationships with Nintendo and PlayStation and then forging the relationship with Xbox. It was tough all around, and I think credit goes to both Sony and Nintendo. Andy House was Vice-President of Marketing at Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) at that time, and Peter had run some trade ads kind of making fun of the PlayStation shortage. I remember Andy calling me because I’ve known him from my Namco days, and he’s just yelling at me. He’s like, “This is not professional! We’re gentlemen in this industry! This is not how we treat each other.!” I had to call Andy back and say, “Listen, man. We have no money to market these games, you know? Can you help us out?” And he did. He gave us a million dollars of TV advertising for Virtua Fighter.

The sweetest thing was we we brought the the Sonic the Hedgehog mascot character up to Nintendo, and the Mario mascot character was there at the door of Nintendo of America and gave him a hug and welcomed him in. I think Arakawa-san from Nintendo of America was there. I’m not going to lie, I got a little teary-eyed when I saw that happen. It was really sweet. Of course, the Xbox guys danced from day one.

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Dobu @dobu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I love the GameFAQs forums I hope they never get removed

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 01/05/2026

If anyone is willing to provide the translation for a bunch of Thai names for Super Mario Bros. Wonder stuff (everything under "T" here), we're interested!

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 29/04/2026

According to a recent article by Japanese outler gamebiz, Goro Abe and the WarioWare team had the incredible motto of "let's waste the latest technology"

Screencap of a machine-translated article from gamebiz.jp, the text visible states "Osaka Electro-Communication University announced that in April 2026, it had recruited two professors, Kenichi Sugino and Goro Abe, who had been involved in the production of globally successful products and popular titles at Nintendo.

Since establishing its Digital Game Department in 2003, the university has built a strong track record as a leader in game education for 23 years. With the addition of these two professionals, the university plans to build a more practical and multifaceted educational system that covers everything from game development to the social applications of games, thereby accelerating the development of the next generation of talent.

Among the newly appointed faculty members, Professor Kenichi Sugino has joined the Department of Electronic and Mechanical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering. Professor Sugino joined Nintendo in April 1989 and built his career as a product designer in the handheld game console development division. He was in charge of the design and development of globally successful products such as the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance, and later worked as a design director on the development of the DS and 3DS. In addition to product development, he was also deeply involved in the training and recruitment of product designers.

Meanwhile, Professor Goro Abe, who took up a position in the Department of Digital Games, specializing in Game and Social Design, at the Faculty of Information Sciences, joined Nintendo in April 1999. After participating as a programmer and designer in "Made in Wario," released by Nintendo in 2003, he served as director for the series, leading the production of all 12 titles. Professor Abe spearheaded original game production, creating numerous unique mini-games under the motto of "wasting the latest technology" for titles for new hardware."

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Kazuyuki Kurashima has just shared some concept drawings for Super Mario RPG. Apparently an idea was kicked around for Mario having different transformations and powers, like Circus Mario, Bat Mario, Octopus Mario, and Bug Mario! x.com/kurashimakaz...

Sketches showing concepts for different transformations and powers Mario could have in Mario RPG.

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 25/04/2026

In 2000, IGN Pocket posted a mysterious image, allegedly from "a Japanese correspondent", showing what appeared to be a Yoshi game or tech demo for GBA. As it turns out, the thing was a mock-up by Famitsu 64 magazine. Creds to PineappleCarl from the Gaming Alexandria Discord for the find!

The msyterious image, showing a purple yoshi Space Harrier-ing it up.

page 10 from the July 2000 issue of Famitsu 64 magazine.

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 24/04/2026

Thanks to an image uploaded by twitter user Wifi_h1024, we now know that Sonic appeared in an episode of Lily Franky Theater!

Screenshot of a yet-unuploaded episode of Lily Franky Theater where Sonic steps on something. Toad is shown saying "なにしゃがんで! うわープ"

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 02/04/2026

Fun fact: In the original draft, the Nintendo character emprisoned in Area 51 was Fox. However...

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 01/04/2026

On what streamer will you be watching Toad?

Availability: The series will be available to stream on Gooble in the United States. Due to Gooble not being available in Canada, the series will instead air on Glorpedo[2]. In most of Western Europe, the series will stream on Beezley except in the Netherlands where it instead will stream on Biddybud. In Southern Azerbaijan, the series is licensed to Bomp.

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 01/04/2026

Nintendo and Illumination are going really hard in marketing the Super Mario Galaxy movie and they've announced the first brand new Mario TV series in 30 years alongside it! Introducing... Toad! www.mariowiki.com/Toad_(televi...

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Toad (television series)

Toad is a hybrid live-action/animated streaming television series serving as a spin off of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. The series stars Keegan-Michael Key reprising his role of Toad in the movies, a...

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 31/03/2026

The Super Mario Super Show has started airing on MEtv using some kind of AI upscaling ,and the results are as good as you'd expect

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VGBoxArt Daily @vgboxartdaily.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Game: Toad Console: Nintendo GameCube Created by: partyboy2 Uploaded on: February 23rd, 2010

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 12/02/2026

Thinking about This old revision for the Bowling Goonie image

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 09/02/2026

The 2nd issue of Valiant Comic's "Game Boy" series made an incredibly wrong prediction about the outcome of the 1991 Super Bowl

BLOCKBUSTER !
Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs predict Super Bowl winners!
It's the Jets in '91 (but the ancient seers were wrong about Denver last year!)

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 04/02/2026

"Ask Uncle Tusk" was an on and off feature on Rareware's website where fans could send questions for the privilege of being roasted by a Rare employee pretending to be the dude from Killer Instinct II. One reader asked for nudes of Dixie Kong.

"Dear Uncle Tusk,
First of all, I simply have to commend you (through a mouthful of cookies n' cream) on the sheer quality of this site. I can't recall a game designer/publisher's site that was just this great. You really give the gamers what they want. Great job! OK I really do have a question, two or three if I can think of that many while I'm writing:

1. Did you ever plan to give Pocket Tales a GB Color palette, or were you just too far into development at the time of the hardware's release?
2. I remember when news of Rare's defection from Nintendo to solo-publishing was all the rave; It was sometimes assumed that Rare did this to be able to design games for Sony's PSX. Are there or were there ever plans to make a game for the CD-based system, and if not, any input on why the N64 is favored to develop on? (Sometimes I just think the PSX has been around waaaay too long.)
3. Can I clean your toilets for money, or at least a chance to see the Rare pad from the inside?
4. Where can I find nude pictures of Dixie Kong? ;>"

"Uncle Tusk replies:

1. I'll pretend you asked this question after we posted the colour screenshots, just to make you look stupid.
2. It's hardly a "defection", is it? We're still Nintendo-exclusive, and no, there were never any plans to develop for other formats.
3. The DKC3 designer wants me to make a crude joke about pads and toilets, but I'm above that sort of thing.
4. Make them yourself if you're that desperate (but don't forget to publicly flog yourself afterwards)."

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 03/02/2026

A wiki user has emailed DiC Mario cartoon writer Perry Martin about his work on the three shows. Lots of insight about the production of the shows is included here, included unused episode premises!

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 24/01/2026

They would not let their souls be weighted down by gravity

Screencap of an old mariowiki page with the statement "Goombas appear in Super Mario Galaxy, leaving the confines of Mushroom World to set up camp on other planets." and a picture of two Goombas starring blankly at the reader

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 14/01/2026

Another year, Another time, And Still Wondering, what the fuck does Barnacle Bear does in Donkey Konga 3?

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Detah @detah.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Thank you donkey Kong

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 24/12/2025

It's Christmas's eve. You know what it means.

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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 05/12/2025

A TikTok User has posted a photo of subway workers removing Yoshi from the train tracks. kotaku.com/yoshi-classon-avenue-g-t…

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 25/11/2025

Fun fax: Longtime Nintendo artist Masanori Sato (who did the character and promotional artwork for the first two Mario & Luigi, among other things) is also the creator of Mega Man 2's Metal Man!

Screencap of an 2024 interview with Sato. Relevant text:

Sato: The games I was into when I was in college were Super Mario Bros. 3 and Final Fantasy. I remember when I was in high school, an illustration I drew was used as the boss character of Mega Man 2. The character was called "Metal Man.

Oozu: What? You told us about it so casually, but isn't that a great story? ？？？？

Sato: At the time, we were looking for boss characters for Mega Man from the general public. One of the several chosen was "Metal Man," which I submitted. But when I told people about it, they didn't really take to it. LOL!

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Cool Box Art @coolboxart.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Game Boy cake / Print ad / Sainsbury's / 1993

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 12/11/2025

In the ending credits for Mario Kart Arcade GP 2, Waluigi does the Akira bike slide

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Kazuki Motoyama / 本山一城, author of several manga adaptations of Super Mario, has passed away according to his sister. He was 69 years old. www.instagram.com/p/DPSXpYukhQd/ www.mariowiki.com/Kazuki_Motoy...

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 10/11/2025

According to an Instagram post by his sister, Kazuki Motoyama, author of Comic BonBon's Super Mario manga (aka "KC Mario"), passed away in August of this year. www.instagram.com/p/DPSXpYukhQ...

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 28/10/2025

Same voice actress (as of Mario Kart World)

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Viz 🏳️‍⚧️ @invisibleup.com · 28/10/2025

The year is 1982. Ralph M. Freeman, District Judge of the Southern Division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, is tasked with attempting to describe "Donkey Kong". The result is delightfully archaic.

Nintendo of America, Inc. v. Elcon Industries, Inc.

Full text at https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14413211357527714092&q=564+F.+Supp.+937&hl=en&as_sdt=2,5#p941

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