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 * In early screenshots of Mario Kart 64 (pictured), Kamek appears as a playable character, but in the final game he was replaced by Donkey Kong. Similarly in Mario Kart 8, a Magikoopa emblem appears in the coding, possibly indicating that Kamek was at one point intended to be a playable character in that game as well.
 * In Super Mario Sunshine, the shine on the boxart of the North American, Japanese, and UK English versions of this game roughly says, "Mario has more moves than ever, you'll have to master them all to sprinkleNTSC / sprayPAL water in the sunshine." All the other European boxarts have this sentence as well, but they are translated.
 * Super Mario 3D Land is the first installment in the Mario series overall (excluding crossover installments) to be localized to Dutch, Portuguese, and Russian, even though Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games is actually the first Mario-related game localized to Dutch. However, it is a crossover game, as it is actually published by Sega.
 * According to a 1993 Nintendo character guide, Toad has the nickname of Little Toadie and was off visiting relatives of the "Fungus Federation" prior to the events of Super Mario Bros.