'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' is chock full of Easter eggs, both blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nods to the Mario’s (and company’s) origins and fun winks to some ’80s Nintendo classics. beastobsessed breaks them all down for you:
: When Mario re-enters his homeworld, he lands right near a sign for a car wash. The logo is of the main character from the NES game: This is probably the most obscure reference in the movie, and it gets a surprising amount of screentime. A lot of Mario’s final fight with Bowser takes place on the street adjacent to this hardware store, whose logo and name comes from this little-known character.
was the mascot for the Japan-only Famicom Disk System. This console peripheral, whose games came on floppy disks that looked like Diskun itself, never made it abroad.: There’s a big poster for a playing card company that appears in the background of this last fight scene too.
: One of the posters behind Mario’s bed at the very end of the movie features the Polar Bear as well. Another is of , Captain Falcon’s race car from the F-Zero games. And earlier in the movie, we see Mario has posters for the NES games
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