Citizen Yeesh

Poster with a stylized Mario scene, included with a 2006 issue of Nintendo Power (please zoom in to view details). This poster was designed by artist Gabe Swarr, known for artwork showcased at the iam8bit video game art exhibition.

In Mario Party 4, the main group of hosts (Toad, Shy Guy, Koopa, Goomba and Boo) are using the power of the mysterious Party Cube to celebrate the player characters' birthdays, including gifting them presents. At no point during the game is any malice or selfishness attributed to their motivations.

However, the 2002 official guide for the game instead slanders several of the hosts by claiming that they are using the party as a front for obtaining money (ignoring the fact that it is the hosts themselves that give the players the money as part of the game to begin with) or that Boo's minions steal from the players (ignoring that Boos only steal from players on behalf of other players, and do not keep the money or stars stolen).

Official recipe for "Wario's Mystery Appetizers" from a 2009 issue of the French Official Nintendo Magazine.

The idea is to present the dinner guests with a set of identical Wario-themed appetizers whereby some of them are filled with a regular savory filling, like tomato pesto, while others are hiding a surprise overly spicy filling, like wasabi.

In Wario World, Wario sings a deliberately annoying chant on the pause screen. However, should the player stay on the pause screen for 50 minutes without closing it, Wario will say "Sorry" and stop chanting (on that instance of the pause screen; he will start again if it is closed and reopened).

Top: a pre-release screenshot of Mario Superstar Baseball, published on the IGN gaming news website in 2005 (note the IGN logo in the bottom right).

Bottom: in the game, the preview image for Mario Stadium uses that exact screenshot, including even part of the IGN logo, seen overlapping Mario's shoe.

This indicates that the developers, despite having full access to the game's code and being able to take any kind of preview screenshot they could want without any restrictions, instead went online and took a screenshot from a gaming journalism website without even editing out the logo.

Top: on Level 3 of the “Pop-Up Patrol” microgame in WarioWare: Get It Together, a window depicting a smiling devil with four words of distorted text may appear.

Bottom: this is actually a reference to a malware website that gained notoriety in 2004, called “You Are An Idiot”, which would display this image, play a song, and hijack the user’s browser to resist being closed, with the only way to leave being restarting the computer. Note that the distorted text in the game lines up exactly with the lengths of the four words on the website, and the last word is clearly recognizable as “idiot”.

Animation of Wario and Link dancing together, from a 1994 Japanese commercial for Wario’s Woods and The Legend of Zelda, which released on the same day for the Famicom.

In a 2009 interview, Shigeru Miyamoto talked about the story of Super Mario Galaxy 2, ending the interview with a remark that a Whittle that could be seen in the game’s announcement trailer is “a person that has a bit of a story”. In the finished game, the Whittles are a species and there are no prominent Whittle individuals; in addition, very little is revealed about their backstory. It is unknown if Miyamoto was referring to some manner of more elaborate story cut during development or if he was referring to the small amount of dialogue in the game as “a bit of a story”.

The more Geoff Keighley speaks about this year's TGA ceremony, the more he's starting to convince me there might be something in store for us this year... and I definitely do not want to be a crazy conspiracy theorist who gets everything wrong (too late for that, let's be honest, I already am) BUT:

there have been a few dots out there... tiny, little dots... about the size of a dust particle... but I think I've connected them. Hear me out:

Geoff tweeted this earlier today,

and whatever dev and game he's talking about, even if it's not Gen, sounds like something really interesting and almost like an "honor" to have on the show. He's got my attention already. But then, he also added this,

So whoever it is, I don't think it's a team from the US, since he mentions a "global" trip. Then I remembered something my brain had buried so deep in my memory archives that I almost had to tear twitter apart to find it, because I wasn't even sure anymore if it had happened or not. Do you know who he was with on summer of 2019? You're absolutely right, my friend.

I ALWAYS wondered what this meeting was for because he never posted anything else related to this, so I ended up forgetting about it, but it's really curious that the dates kinda match. I also noticed Geoff recently followed Ueda and Gen on twitter, he wasn't following them before. This part might be just a silly coincidence, but for some reason it caught my eye as well.

Honestly I might just be connecting dots that are light years apart, for things that aren't even related, but my curiosity is getting the best of me and I can't help but think this might be it. Geoff keeps talking about how this ceremony will show what the future of games is truly about and that they have their biggest lineup ever. But then again, this could be literally about anyone else. There are so many long-awaited and legendary games out there that could make a comeback at any point, it's too difficult to pinpoint his clues down to a single developer.

If this is true, I'm gonna be so happy because no matter how patient I wanna be... it's time guys. It's time. I just want to see what comes next. And if it's not... well I'll just pretend this post never happened

Set of officially licensed 1998 Mario Party padlocks from Japan.

Officially licensed 2002 Hi-C juice boxes depicting Nintendo characters and explaining how the character in question relates to the flavor of juice inside each box (zoom in to read text).

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