Unused sponsor banners found in the files of Super Mario Strikers.

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In Super Mario 64, positioning Mario underneath the lowest rotating platform on the bottom of Tick Tock Clock at the highest clock speed will result in the platform continuously squishing Mario for extremely brief periods, without actually harming him.

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Super Mario 3D World contains an unlockable version of Mario Bros. (particularly the NES version) that replaces Mario with a second Luigi, called "Luigi Bros."

Curiously, the Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury files for Luigi Bros. contain lists of cheat codes for four NES games: The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Metroid, and Kid Icarus. There is obviously no way to activate these codes as the games themselves are missing, and no codes for Mario/Luigi Bros. itself (or any other Mario games) are included.

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Thought I’d sum up The Hobbit in one drawing if that’s okay with you guys

19th century mother-of-pearl gaming counter (for sale!)

i dont have a caption for this one but know that this took me multiple months of work to produce. i hate drawing birds

You know what I havn't heard anyone talk about yet?

The fact the Rito use what look like their own simplified version of compound bows.

So - for anyone who doesn't know archery, there's different types of bows you can use. The type you'll usually see in media is a long bow. (There's also flat bows, recurve bows, crossbows, etc.)

A compound bow is a more modern bow - and the most common type you'd probably use now days if you joined an archery club.

You can see the familiarities - the wheels, the supports, the shapes. The Rito bows are like a wooden version.

So why is it interesting? Well - they made the design choice to chose a more modern bow style rather than a more traditional one like a longbow dispite the fact the enviroments aren't modern. So this was a very specific design decision they made. Why are compound bows more commonly used now days? Because they take less strength to pull and fire. Simple as that. To shoot a long bow, you need very good upper arm strength. Compound bows distribute the pressure to make them easier to wield if you don't have that.

Birds have hollow bones so that they can fly, and the Rito warriors seem to mostly have slender builds for dexterity. The liklihood is that they don't have incredible muscle strength. So using compound bows makes perfect sense. They can also be lighter, because a long bow or a flat bow must be made of a solid piece of wood so it can bend without breaking, but a compound bow is usually made from hollow pieces of metal (though theoretically could be made from wood), because they don't have so much pressure on them. So they'd be able to be flown around with much easier.

This probably isn't of any interest to anyone, but it was something interesting I noticed that I wanted to share!

This is ✨IT✨

*whistle*

An older drawing that I never got to finish properly but I think it's alright as a sketch too

Bothering the beast

Gotta show Zelda twilight princess some love. Hope you guys do too!

Love the pose of the horse and of course the ember set on Link to match Dinral. The lighting is also fantastic. It's giving fantasy painting that I'd hang in my living room.

More Twilight Princess color studies cause pretty game

Midnight Maze : Mario Kart City Chase

Art by Dongbin Kim