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I could've used this Super Mario 64 secret 30 years ago, and it's blowing my mind now: all you need is exactly 11 button mashes to escape King Bob-omb

Nintendo did not want you to treat your N64 controller kindly

Super Mario Galaxy has a "horribly inefficient" secret: the credits are always loaded in the background while you play, which has the "inadvertently heartwarming" side effect of making sure the platformer always remembers the Nintendo legends who made it

Super Mario Galaxy has a "horribly inefficient" secret: the credits are always loaded in the background while you play, which has the "inadvertently heartwarming" side effect of making sure the platformer always remembers the Nintendo legends who made it

"4643 lines of text" can add up in the Wii's memory

If you play a pirated Super Smash Bros exactly 69 times on N64, Nintendo's "sneaky" anti-piracy measure will "lull the illegitimate user into a false sense of security" and trap you as Mario forever

If you play a pirated Super Smash Bros exactly 69 times on N64, Nintendo's "sneaky" anti-piracy measure will "lull the illegitimate user into a false sense of security" and trap you as Mario forever

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Wow, Mario Kart World really is Nintendo's take on Grand Theft Auto, as NPCs can break into each other's cars: "He's breaking into Green Shy Guy's car! And now he's stealing it!"

We really got Yellow Toad committing grand theft auto before GTA 6

Nintendo tracks Super Mario friendships on official web page that reveals Pauline is an outcast, Waluigi is controversial, and Mario canonically doesn't like you

Behold, Super Mario 64 speedrunners can do "an absurdly lengthy and precise series" of 41 button presses to make Mario stand underwater: "This has no known practical purpose"

Not every speedrunning trick is actually going to be useful

Behold, a Super Mario 64 player discovered that a 34-frame loop repeated 2.8 million times over 36 days can make a log drift through a cliff: "This has no currently known purpose"

No known purpose... yet

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After running a Super Mario Bros archive for 12 years, one dedicated historian was about to quit forever if it wasn’t for the help of 4,000 fans: "You have saved my life"

After running a Super Mario Bros archive for 12 years, one dedicated historian was about to quit forever if it wasn’t for the help of 4,000 fans: "You have saved my life"

12 years of preserving big and small details from the Mushroom Kingdom has paid off

1980s court documents show Nintendo considered 'Kong Dong' and 'Kong the Kong' before settling on the name Donkey Kong

1980s court documents show Nintendo considered 'Kong Dong' and 'Kong the Kong' before settling on the name Donkey Kong

Also: Funky Kong is sadly much more canon than we ever realised.

Super Mario RPG remake fixes a 27-year-old goof that I can't believe anybody noticed

Super Mario RPG remake fixes a 27-year-old goof that I can't believe anybody noticed

Super Mario RPG fans are taking stock of some unbelievably miniscule changes in the remake

Disturbing classic Mario manga panel shows where 1-Up Mushrooms grow

Disturbing classic Mario manga panel shows where 1-Up Mushrooms grow

A panel from a classic 1996 Super Mario manga resurfaced online and raised some eyebrows over its depiction of the Mushroom Kingdom

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