Ponqo's Videogame Hole

In Super Mario Galaxy 2, all Fuzzies have a tiny red, white and black cube inside them. The only other character who has a similar cube on the inside is Lubba. The purpose of the cubes is unknown.

Top: one of the backgrounds used many times with different palettes in Super Mario World are these abstract, highly geometric mountains.

Middle: dataminer and 3D modeler Peardian has reconstructed the entire landscape in 3D to see whether it is physically possible and how it would look at other angles.

Bottom: the mountains as seen from the side. These create the exact structure of the original Super Mario World background when viewed from the front in orthographic projection.

During the cutscene of meeting FLUDD at the start of Super Mario Sunshine, a brief shot from FLUDD’s point of view appears, filled with various writing on the sides of the screen. Due to the low resolution of the movie file that contains the cutscene, it is not possible to see the Japanese characters clearly; however, experts who have analyzed the low-quality text came to the conclusion that the block of text in the center of the left side the screen is a Mario character profile, and most likely reads (translated from Japanese):

Mario of the Mushroom Kingdom Nemesis: Bowser Occupation: Plumber Favorite food: Spaghetti Loves which person: Secret Dislikes: Poison Mushroom Body weight: Secret Height: Unknown Chromosome number: Unknown Father’s name: Unknown Mother’s name: Unknown

Abandoned unauthorized Mario statue found in Beijing, China.

There’s just

so many of these

and I think it’s incredibly funny but

I just read this bit from the artist and

This is a "plein air" painting which means I set up my easel right across the street of this Chase bank in my city and painted it like it had caught fire. The police questioned me on the spot. Three weeks later Homeland Security was knocking on the door to my home. The question they kept asking me was "Do you hate these banks?" I can honestly say yes.