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 is a term used to describe content (such as videos, audio recordings, photos, and literature) that is not available to the general public and may be unaccounted for. Due to the age of the Mario franchise, several pieces of officially licensed Mario related media have been lost.

To see unreleased or cancelled video games that may qualify as lost media, see List of unreleased media.

King Koopa's Kool Kartoons
 was a live-action television show created by DIC Entertainment. It centered around King Koopa (played by Christopher Collins and eventually Patrick Pinney), whose personality and appearance was based on his character in the The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! He would host quizzes that viewers could answer through sending mail, answer viewer-submitted questions, and play cartoons from the public domain that had nothing to do with the Mario franchise.

The show ran from September 11, 1989 to November 20, 1989 and aired 65 episodes before its cancellation. It is believed to have aired in southern California; Tucson, Arizona; and El Paso, Texas. Due to the show's poor reception and short lifespan, only a few clips of King Koopa's Kool Kartoons are available.

Nintendo Arcade
The Nintendo Arcade was a page on Nintendo's official website that hosted flash games to promote recent and upcoming game releases. It ran from 2006 to late 2007 before it was taken down. According to the Lost Media Wiki, fourteen of its 38 games are currently lost. This includes 1-Up Hunt!, Super Paper Mario Memory Match, Wario: Master of Disguise Trivia, and Yoshi's Egg Toss.

Slamfest '99
 was an event hosted on April 26, 1999 to promote the release of Super Smash Bros. It took place at the in  and lasted from 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Due to the  happening six days prior to the event, Slamfest '99 was mostly advertised in video game-centric internet communities, rather than mainstream media. Audience members mainly consisted of children from the and several video game magazine reporters. Demo booths were set up for attendees to play Super Smash Bros. before and after the wrestling match.

The main event was a seventeen minute wrestling match between four  members (who also choregraphed the performance) wearing costumes of Donkey Kong (whose nickname for Slamfest '99 is unknown due to his profile not being archived), Mario (nicknamed The Italian Stallion), Pikachu (nicknamed The Beast from the Far East), and Yoshi (nicknamed The Dinosaur of Disaster). At some point, the referee became involved in the fight and bit Pikachu's ear, claiming it tasted like chicken. It ended with all four wrestlers crashing into each other and knocking themselves out, leading to the referee announcing everybody as the winner.

Slamfest '99 was broadcasted online by Media On Demand (now Onstream Media) and could be re-watched with RealPlayer G2. A link to the broadcast contained a .ram (Real Audio Metadata) file, which contained the URL to a server that played the video. The event's webpage was removed before August 2000 and archives from the Wayback Machine do not display any files. As of April 2023, the broadcast has never been found.

Several YouTubers and members of the Lost Media Wiki have been searching for video footage of Slamfest '99 since 2020. According to a former Media On Demand employee, it would've been up to Nintendo to decide if they wanted to keep an archive of the broadcast. Ed Espinoza, a former Nintendo employee who produced and scripted Slamfest '99, believes a public relations firm might have an archive or an idea on where one may be.

The most recent update in the search for Slamfest '99 was on February 13, 2023, when previously new photos of the event were uploaded to Imgur.

Waluigi's Foot Fault


Waluigi's Foot Fault (also known as Waluigi's Toenail Clipping Party) was a released sometime in mid-to-late 2000. According to issue 136 of Nintendo Power, the player would clip Waluigi's toenails and catch them with a jar.

Several files could be found on the official Mario Tennis website and would automatically download to the user's computer. A file titled toenails_coming.swf contains an advertisement for the game, but a file titled toenails.swf (which is presumably the game's file) was not archived and cannot be viewed. A playable version of Waluigi's Foot Fault has not been found.

Additionally, a member of the Lost Media Wiki forum discovered two more files titled paint_the_lines.swf and deface_painting.swf. It is unknown if these were also browser games and what their gameplay consisted of.

Test stuff
Club Nintendo was an officially licensed magazine being distributed in Latin America from December 1991 to February 2019. It was created by and José Sierra.

Mario was the presenter of several reoccurring articles, such as Los Retos De Mario (where he would give readers various video game challenges) and ''Tus Preguntas A Dr. Mario (where he would give readers different video game advice).