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if you tried and compiled anime versions of mozart, the second most Popular Classical Music Guy, it'd look like this

you could probably find a theme there if you really wanted to, but the personality, colors, design, etc are generally all over the place

but when you compile beethoven designs together they look like

this

it's insane how consistently Beethoven these are, like you could show these to your grandma and she'd have no choice but to reluctantly admit that these anime boys and girls are, in fact, all renowned German composer Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)

I guess he just cooked that hard with his own character design

A runaway trolley is heading down the tracks toward five anime versions of Beethoven. You are standing next to a lever that can divert the trolley onto a different track that only has the Classicaloid version of Beethoven on it. If you divert the trolley onto the other track, this one Beethoven will die, but the other five Beethovens will be saved.

You are also Schubert from Classicaloid.

Do you let the trolley run its course, hoping this near-death experience will lead to Classicaloid Beethoven rethinking his life and the way he treated you, or do you pull the lever, save the 5 Beethovens and see if Sidstory Beethoven and Schubert are looking for a third-but-really-not-third?

Beethoven recipts under cut

Unused running Moo Moo animation from the files of Mario Kart Wii, intended to be used in Moo Moo Meadows. In the finished game, Moo Moos never run.

Background used on Nintendo of Japan’s official site for the Tanabata festival in 2020, featuring Stars from the Mario series. Tanabata is a festival celebrating an ancient legend about the Milky Way, and is also known as the Star Festival. It may have inspired the Star Festival seen in the Super Mario Galaxy games.

Brief animated segment from the Japanese commercial for the Yoshi puzzle game for Famicom/Game Boy (known as “Yoshi’s Egg” in Japan).

Officially licensed 1992 Super Mario Bros. notebooks from Italy, featuring unique traced versions of official artwork with smooth shading.

Images found in development files for Yoshi’s Island, depicting early concepts for background graphics.

The Greenwood Village track from Diddy Kong Racing actually appears in games from three different franchises, each of its appearances being more obscure.

Top: how the track appears in Diddy Kong Racing, where is it part of the regular track selection.

Middle: in Jet Force Gemini, also developed by Rare, Greenwood Village is an unlockable multiplayer map.

Bottom: in the Nintendo 64 version of Mickey’s Speedway USA (note Mickey Mouse in the car), also developed by Rare, the track is included in the game’s files and can be accessed with cheats.