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Animation posted for MAR10 Day 2016 on Nintendo of America's official social media accounts.

Soothing Hard Drive Sounds To Fall Asleep To

[A screenshot of the Nintendo Australia website flash intro from 1998. A number of official artwork renders are used for the buttons. The Yoshi button is labeled "HELP" and is altered to have smaller pupils than usual.] Source: image: https://web.archive.org/web/19980530120304fw_/http://www.nintendo.com.au/flash_index.html, info: Bluesky user @vghistory.bsky.social

The 1998 official site for Nintendo Australia had a deliberately silly aesthetic with small animations and edits to official renders. For the "HELP" button, Yoshi's pupils were made smaller than usual to give him a "concerned" expression, as though in need of help.

The first online game I played was I think Nicktoons Slimeball.

Windows the API vs Windows the Operating System

He's getting ready to gamble.

Nomura no Famicom Trade was a stock trading application for the Japan-only dial-up modem add-on for the Famicom. Through a Nintendo collaboration, the game featured Mario on the information screen, doing a unique little dance.

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Did you know? In Europe, Monsters, Inc.: Scream Team is called Monsters, Inc.: Scream Team Bros.

Certain models of the 2003 Motorola MPx200 clamshell phone contained a ringtone that was blatantly just the "Fever" theme from Dr. Mario with different notes.

Is 4:20:00 too long to expect people to sit through the premiere of a video at a theatre

In WarioWare: Twisted, Jimmy's boss microgame can be won instantly if the console is tilted 720° in less than half a second. In practice, this is achieved by literally physically throwing the console.

Poor Daisy

Mario Kart Wii [picture of Daisy's statue in Mario Kart Wii] Model is very simplistic, detail is achieved with textures. While low-resolution, all details are present Mario Kart Tour/8 Deluxe [picture of Daisy's statue in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe] Textures have been removed in favor of modeling details, causing many of them to be lost Source: noclip.website

In Mario Kart Wii, the statues on Daisy Circuit are simple, but achieve detail through textures. A stylistic change in Mario Kart Tour/8 Deluxe eschews the textures and attempts to model the details instead, resulting in a much rougher look despite having more polygons.

Somehow Microslop is making Windows 12 even more horrifying than Windows 11. Not that I would run it, but even if I wanted to, I couldn't since my computer doesn't have an NPU, and I did the major CPU and motherboard upgrade in 2021.

tech4gamers.com/windows-12-r...

You can buy Amazon Basics SD cards? Would you trust those? I wouldn't.

I almost never installed updates on Windows Phone except for when there were major OS updates since I had automatic updates off and thought the major updates were the only things Microsoft pushed so it was a surprise when I looked at the list of released updates to see so many.

A screenshot from Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, showing Mario and Luigi in Mushrise Park, looking at two seemingly dead Luigis lying on the ground. Source: YouTube user @alexsstuff2801, youtube.com/watch?v=3PC_OU_xnKA

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team contains various unused test rooms in its files. One of these is the "two dead Luigis" test room, which is identical to the Mushrise Park entrance from the finished game, except there are two Luigis lying on the ground. The Luigis are unresponsive.

Most of the footage of the famous 2000 "Super Mario 128" tech demo was recorded with handheld cameras by the audience, with the presenter drowning out the game sound. Only 10 seconds of direct feed footage exist, which reveal that the sound was a cacophony of Marios screaming.

Luigi's Mansion

Super Mario Sunshine

On your left: Creepy Mario
On your right: Wet Mario

know the difference

>looking for a new Mario
>ask the game store cashier if the Mario is creepy or wet
>she doesnt understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is creepy and what is wet
>she laughs and says “it’s a good Mario sir”
>buy the new Mario
>its wet

In Super Mario Sunshine, whenever Mario is wet, he will drip small droplets of water. This is not cosmetic; in fact, Wet Mario is so powerful he can defeat the game's first boss entirely by dripping on it, skipping obtaining FLUDD altogether.

Actually they might be more like that thing that infects snail eyestalks. Don't let demon tech slopmachines think for you.

"AI" slopmachines are like digital brain-eating amoebas. No matter how safe for the environment they become, how open one might be, or anything else like that, they inevitably will, with regular usage, destroy your ability to think on your own.

Nia deserves the world.

In Mario Party 3, the message debug mode features Peach walking in a white void while messages are displayed, except all portraits are replaced by Boo. This creates the impression of a bizarre scenario where Boo is showing off his wide repertoire of character impressions to Peach.

How Gen III Roaming Legendaries Destroyed My Childhood YouTube video by chuggaaconroy

If you’re picking Squirtle or Bulbasaur in FireRed & LeafGreen, I think you should know this!
youtu.be/Z6hNTYzgxbk

In Super Mario Odyssey, the Odyssey can only hold 999 Power Moons. However, it is possible to deposit over 1500 moons into it at once by buying the maximum amount of moons from each Crazy Cap store beforehand, so that it takes ca. 2 and a half minutes just to deposit them.

Windows XP isn't a retro operating system, it just came out and everyone's upgrading from ME, right? ...right?

Scan and translation by Flickr user "MiloScat" Panel 1: Mario: "LUIGI! YOU'VE BEEN EATING MUSHROOMS AND HIDING IT FROM ME AGAIN, HAVEN'T YOU?" Panel 2: Luigi: "SORRY, BRO... I JUST COULDN'T RESIST..." Panel 3: Mario: "I'M NOT SAYING EATING MUSHROOMS IS A BAD THING! JUST DON'T DO IT SECRETLY IN THE TOILET!" Panel 4: Zoom out to reveal Luigi is too large to exit the toilet. Mario must go urgently. Luigi: "I'M SORRY, BRO... I'M SORRY..." Mario: "IT'S ALRIGHT, JUST GET OUT OF THERE!" Please note that the original comic was already in Western left-to-right reading order. The panels are specifically numbered in the comers to indicate the correct order to readers only familiar with Japanese manga right-to-left order. Source: flickr.com/photos/miloscat/44060649174, book: Super Mario World (APE), Japan, 1990, ISBN 4-09-104192-2

"Mushrooms are drugs" jokes are a staple of Mario humor on the Internet. Not even Nintendo themselves are strangers to this, with a comic in the official Japanese Super Mario World guide using "Luigi is consuming mushrooms secretly in the bathroom" as a setup.