The Dood

prelog:

In Super Mario World, the Vanilla Dome 4 level contains many tall white plant-like platforms (identified in Japanese official material as daikon, a type of large white radish common in Japan) that sometimes have green bouncy platforms attached to their sides.

These bouncy platforms are slightly glitched in that if the camera is moved with L or R so that they are at the edge of the screen, the opposite edge will act like an invisible extension of the platform (or in other words, the platform's collision wraps around the screen).

The footage shows Mario bouncing around on the invisible platform before doing a large jump. Note the visible platform on the left side reacting to his bounces. This is easy to do during regular gameplay and merely requires careful camera positioning.

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The prototype version of Super Mario Kart features a glitch that has been fixed in the release version, whereby pausing the game just after the driver is hit by an obstacle and then restarting the race will cause the camera to view the driver from the side instead of from behind.

This makes the game extremely difficult to control since it is basically impossible to see more than a short distance ahead of the character, and the controls being rotated 90 degrees relative to the D-Pad directions.

Particularly entertaining is Yoshi's reaction to this glitch. All drivers in the game only have a single sprite per facing direction, and Yoshi's sprites have him stick out his tongue when going directly right or left. Since he is going left by default in this state, this causes him to always have his mouth open.

Extremely rare officially licensed 1988 towel depicting Mario and Luigi skateboarding.

When I was 14, my friends and I went to see Madagascar 3 - told our parents and then walked to and from the theater by ourselves. When I got home, my mom asked me all kinds of questions about the movie, and I told her about it, and I kept singing the stupid Afro Circus song

In Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2, Luigi's eyes do not respond well to his death.

If Luigi dies from being hit by an enemy attack, the stacking of his eye and eyelid textures will become glitched, causing one of his eyes to have a white pupil, while the other one will go blank and lose half an eyelid.

Due to Luigi looking down during this and the in-game camera showing him from above, this is relatively difficult to see during regular gameplay, which may explain why it was not caught during development. This was also not fixed in any subsequent release of these games.

Artwork of Mario dancing, seen in the 1985 instruction manual/programming guide for Family Basic V3 on the Famicom.

The illustration is to show that by using Mario's jumping sprite without making him actually jump, he can be made to look like he is raising his hands in the manner reminiscent of the dance move featured in the 1977 move Saturday Night Fever (which has since become the default "disco" move in fiction), with the caption next to him translating to "Fever".