Super Mario Trivia

Super Mario Trivia gives you some strange facts on the Mario universe.

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In Super Mario Sunshine, in the sixth episode of Bianco Hills, "The Secret of the Dirty Lake", the sun is missing in the sky.

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In Super Mario World, Pokeys spawn with five segments instead of three if Mario is riding Yoshi.

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In Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, the camera is zoomed out more than normal if the player uses Petey Piranha during a race.

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When sorting one's game library alphabetically on the Nintendo Switch OS, Luigi's Mansion 2 HD is sorted after Luigi's Mansion 3 despite preceding it numerically. This is because the title for the former uses a different apostrophe symbol (’) compared to the latter (').

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In Super Mario World, the 1-Up Mushrooms that appear during the bonus game cannot be eaten by Yoshi. This is not the case in the GBA version of the game.

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In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the sticker depicting a Bowser Space from Mario Party 6 is mistakenly called "Bowser Coin".

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The only episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! to feature a POW Block is "The Pied Koopa".

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Birdo's Japanese name "Catherine" (though romanized as "Cassarin") can be found within the game data of Mario's Tennis (Virtual Boy), implying she was originally intended to be playable.

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In Super Mario Kart, it's impossible for the player to get a star or a lightning bolt during the first lap.

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In the Nintendo 3DS remake of Luigi's Mansion, Boolossus has four teeth instead of two.

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The back of the box and instruction booklet for Mario Superstar Baseball erroneously states that there is a Nintendo Power Player's Guide for it.

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In the North American manual for The Legend of Zelda for the NES, two screenshots in the “Erasing an old Link character” section show the save files being named “NINTENDO”, “MARIO” and “LUIGI”.

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The Japanese version of Game & Watch Gallery 4 (GBA) was unpublished until it was released onto the Wii U Virtual Console in 2016.

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Bubbles from Clu Clu Land appears as a playable character in DK: King of Swing.

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The back of the North American packaging for Super Mario Land mentions “giant crabs” appearing as enemies in the first paragraph, despite no crab-like enemies appearing in the game.

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In the Chinese versions of Paper Mario: Sticker Star, the windmill code at Hither Thither Hill is "9958" instead of "4123".

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Virtual Boy Wario Land was originally named Wario Cruise as seen on the Virtual Boy system's box.

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Prior to the debut of Gold Mario in New Super Mario Bros. 2, Metal Mario had an alternate gold color scheme in Mario Golf for Nintendo 64.

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In Mario Kart Wii, the Cataquacks on GCN Peach Beach do not chase racers in Wi-Fi or Time Trial races.

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Coincidentally, the voice clip sampled for Bowser's laugh in Super Mario 64 was recorded by Charles Martinet years before his debut as Mario.