List of references in advertisements

The following is a list of advertisements that involve or invoke the Mario series, but are not for Mario products. For a list of advertisements for the Mario series, see List of Mario advertisements instead. These advertisements may be on television, other forms of public broadcast, or in print media such as posters and magazines.

Action Replay DSi
The packaging of the Action Replay DSi depicts numerous video game characters, including an altered version of Bowser's Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time artwork that makes him primarily green and olive yellow, with a spikeless red shell, light brown eyes and hair, a different hairdo, downward-curling horns and silver bracers inlaid with red gems.

McDonalds
In the McDonalds's TV commercial "Archenemies," numerous different arch enemies are seen setting their differences aside over various McDonald's foods. Among them are Mario and Bowser. In the commercial, Mario makes amends to Bowser by giving him a potted Piranha Plant.

Sonic the Hedgehog
The TV advertisement for the original Sonic the Hedgehog and the Sega Genesis compares them to Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, boasting that the package deal was "faster" and $50 less expensive than Nintendo's product. Despite the salesman's best efforts to flog Super Mario World, the kid from whose POV the commercial is shown is drawn to the TV showing the Sonic footage over the Mario screen and insists on buying it and the Genesis.