subdirectory_arrow_right Pikmin (Game), Mario 128 (Game), Mario (Franchise), Mario Bros. (Franchise), Nintendo GameCube (Platform)
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At Spaceworld 2000, Shigeru Miyamoto showed off a tech demo for a project he had been working on for a number of years known as Mario 128. This project had a tumultuous development cycle with little to no details coming out over the years until finally in 2007 at a GDC Keynote he revealed what came of this laborious project. He explained that some parts of the project were used to make Pikmin and other parts of the project were utilized in Super Mario Galaxy.
subdirectory_arrow_right Super Mario 3D All-Stars (Game)
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In the Super Mario 3D All-Stars port of the game for the Nintendo Switch, the game's cutscenes were re-rendered into HD. However, an error slipped through where Princess Peach can now be seen T-posing during the game's opening sequence just after Bowser's airships drop their anchors into Peach's Castle.
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The Toy Time Galaxy theme may be based on "Mario Syndrome", an alternative dance remix of the Super Mario Bros. overworld theme by Japanese act Bonus 21 that was released as a 12" and cassette single in 1986. The Toy Time Galaxy theme features similar instrumentation and compositional choices as "Mario Syndrome", though foregoes the 1986 song's dance elements.
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There are unused animations of Mario performing punches and playing Tennis.
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Due to an unusual mistake, people who preordered the game from GameStop received an automated phone call from them claiming it was a Mature rated game.
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In the final chapter of Rosalina's storybook, in the French version on one of the pages, the line is different than compared to the version shown in the game in other regions. When translated, the line reads:
"I would like, once every hundred years, to return back to my blue planet, and doze on the knees of my father, stroking the mustache that was his pride."
"I would like, once every hundred years, to return back to my blue planet, and doze on the knees of my father, stroking the mustache that was his pride."
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The Dusty Dune Galaxy has a similar name to the Dusty Dunes Desert from Earthbound. However, this is most likely a coincidence.
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The idea for Super Mario Galaxy simply came from the game's producer, Shigeru Miyamoto, saying to the game's director, Yoshiaki Koizumi "Hey, can you make something with spherical worlds?" This idea became defined over a long period of time and would eventually turn into Super Mario Galaxy.
Miyamoto was known to provide vague comments and feedback that not many workers at Nintendo could completely understand and that only Koizumi was able to figure out the context for.
Miyamoto was known to provide vague comments and feedback that not many workers at Nintendo could completely understand and that only Koizumi was able to figure out the context for.
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A collection of realistic-looking bugs can be found in the game's files rigged and animated. It is unknown what these bugs would have been used for.
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In the Rolling Gizmo Galaxy, there is a hidden cluster of Star Bits that resembles a Blue Rupee from the Legend of Zelda series.
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Koichi Hayashida, the Director of Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Level Design Director of Super Mario Galaxy, provided the voice for Major Burrows.
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Yoshi was originally going to be in the game but was removed due to the developers thinking that "it would've been too much all at once." They said that, "if you're going to put Yoshi in a game, he has to be a main element, but [Super Mario Galaxy] had spherical land forms and gravity shifts and lots of elements that were entirely new" and, "Even if we had used him, we might have only been able to use him on a single stage."
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Rosalina's Storybook was written by Yoshiaki Koizumi, who wrote it at night without anybody knowing what he was doing. The following day he presented the story to Shigeru Miyamoto, who was surprised when Yoshiaki told him that nobody else knew about it.
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Strangely, when the player plays as Luigi in the mission "Luigi and the Haunted Mansion" the trapped Luigi will still call out for Mario. This could either be something the developers missed or the fact that he could have been expecting Mario to rescue him.
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