Developing video games can be a tough occupation in the industry today. Unless you’re Bethesda or Ubisoft, everything has to be refined to the point where everything looks and moves so fluently and flawless. Glitches can be so common in video games, whether they would be ones to completely deform the looks of characters and objects in the virtual world, or neat little tricks gamers can discover to go where they are not supposed to, it can be hard to find a game that is perfectly polished. Nintendo is one of the best companies in the industry at quality assurance. It ♓is very rare to find technical mistakes within their games, but guess what? Even they have their list of mistakes, especially in older video games that had smaller development teams, in which they would be more common.
The Super Mario series is one of the most iconic series in gaming, and it’s one that Nintendo treasures very deeply. They put a lot of love and care in developing all of their games really, but Mario always has that special bit of attention to detail. Yet, despite that, even the Super Mario series is littered with glitches and mistakes that make you wonder how did they miss that? Here we will go through a list of technical errors that show that even Super Mario games aren’t invulnerable from mistakes. Most of thes𝄹e mistakes aren’t the kind to break your game, but they can bring about a little bit of fun to discover and toy around with.
30 How We Really Feel When The Princess Is In Anotꦉher Castle ꦐ
This glitch can be activated in Super Mario Bros. through perishing and completing a castle level simultaneously. To do that you’ll need to be small while touching the axe, but when you touch it, Bowser♓ would have to hit you at the same time.
If pulled off with 🃏no more lives remaining, you’ll still pass the level, but when you receive the message from Toad that the princess is in another castle, the game over screen will then show up.
In other words, this pretty much sums up how most gamers feel when they make the effort to re▨scue Princess Peach, only to find out that she isn’t there.
29 ܫ A Bird? A Plane? No, It’s That Dog Fro🎶m Super Mario Odyssey
You know that random, oddly realistic looking pup that follows Mario around in the kingdoms of Super Mario Odyssey? Well, there is a bit of a mistake in the dog’s physics. If you happen to jump off the dog while it is in mid-air, the dog will stay there until it jumps again. This glitch can actually be stacked once it jumps again, allowing you to pull off some insane height as long as you continue to do cap throws. It is easiest to pull this of𒊎f in the Moon Kingdom due to having less gravity to pull the dog down.
28 ﷽ ꦦ Hey Mario, You’re Missing An Arm And A Leg
As a kid, you probably have had moments where you just want to play around with the physical game cartridge despite clear warning signs telling you not to do so? Maybe it was for good luck, or perhaps frustration like when you kick a vending machine hoping it spews out the snack you paid for. Well doing something similar can visually affect Mario’s appearance in the N64 version of Super Mario 64.
By tilting the game cartridge while on, Mario will appear to start losing limbs.
His jumps will start to look a bit more awkward and everything starts to become extra glitchy.﷽ However it is important to point out that this could cause data corruption, so tilt with caution.
27 A Gray Hammer Mario Color Swap Actual🍌ly Looks Cool
In a world 7 level in Super Mario Bros. 3, if you have a Tanooki suit and tu꧂rn into a statue right before y🐼ou grab a Hammer suit, Mario will retain the monochromatic color of the statue but still transform into Hammer Mario.
This color swap is actually a really good look for Mario, too bad there isn’t much you can do with it.
You can still play around with hammers, but unfortunately, a side effect of the glitch is that🔴 you can’t use the warp pipe to leave the room, leaving you stuck until the timer reached zero.
26 Check Out Yoshi’s Super Puffed Cheeks 🌱
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, once you reach Yoshi Star Galaxy, find a Yoshi to ride on. Then you should do what you can to have Yoshi flutter above the goldﷺen berry and then eat it. After that, activate the launch star as soon as it appears.
You’ll be treated to a hilarious moment where Yoshi’s cheeks are still puffed up.
This visual mishap will only last for the duration of𓆉 your launch. Once you land, Yosh꧋i will immediately eat the golden berry, returning back to normal.
25 How Did Nin❀tendo Miss This Mistake?
One of the most basic graphical mistakes you will probably ever find in a Nintendo game occurs in Super Mario 3D Land for the Nintendo 3DS. This flaw is as clear and noticeable as any other. All you simply have to do is watch the shadows of Mario or Luigi as you are jumping on a platform. If there is ground underneath, you’ll notice that Mario or Luigi’s shadow will appear on ꦆthe platform as well as appear in the land below, and no, these platforms aren’t translucent either.
24 Mario Walking🌼 Underwater And Can Breathe Too!
In Super Mario Sunshine if you go to the small pool of water behind the large Shine Sprite gate, dive down to the bottom and simply press B, Mario will go right through the wall. Sometimes he will land underground and you can get out ꦦnormally, other times he may trigger another 💧glitch where he actually falls to the bottom of the water, but able to walk and run as if he was on dry land. You could explore the entire Isle Delfino like this, even reach the island at the edge without the need for a boat.
23 ꦓ The Banana Is Alive!
This funny little error can be triggered in Dolphin Shoals of Mario Kart 8. Here you’ll need to have a banana peel ready as you approach the area with multiple warp pipes that generate wind. If you throw the banana at the correct angle into the wind, it would land in a tilted part of the course. At that point, the banana itself will slide around and become mobile in the course. A banana that can mᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚove on its own will only make the course more dangerous, which is actually kind of frightening when you think about how it ꦕwould be like a green shell.
22 Super Mario World﷽, Completely Discolored! ꦑ
The overworld in Super Mario World could look a little bit different if you finish Chocolate Island 3 a certain way. Once you get to the goal, you want to ju✅mp off of Yoshi under the goal to get to the Giant Gate. This would prevent the screen from scrolling up, and if done right, you’ll only see a part of Mario as the level is finished.
When you arrive back to the map, it will start to appear mostly red.
Traversing 🉐to certain areas will make it look somewhat whitish-pink, but in order to restore things back to normal, simply co♔mplete a level or enter a pipe or Star Road.
21 Beware Of The Camera Quake ✱
This is another mistake in Super Mario 3D Land that doesn’t require any effort to notice. In World 8-1, you must take a spiked ball from the reveဣrsible platforms to the end of the flipp🙈ing ones. Doing so will cause the spiked ball to fall between the platforms and the ground on the other side. The ball will start to shake rapidly, and so will the camera. This can be corrected back to normal by simply jumping, and causing the spike ball to fall.