**New**
Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins
- When you get to the Game Over screen, don't do anything for about 2 and a half minutes. Eventually, you will hear the famous Totaka's Song from Mario Paint play. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.
- In a few levels in the game, mostly the Hippo Zone, Gordos, common enemies from the Kirby series, appear as enemies. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
- If you keep changing Wario's color he'll eventually be in his original clothes instead of his WarioWare outfit. Spotted by Larry.
**New**
 

Dr Mario Online Rx
- When you click on one of the Miis in Virus Buster mode, it will say various phrases such as "I may look like I'm nervous, but I'm not..." or give you statistics like "You've thrown over 30 capsules!" What they say depends on if they're tied with the Viruses, winning, losing, or have already won. Additionally, if you click on a Virus it will chuckle and grin towards the screen. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
- Go to the Shroom Shop in Peach's castle and look at the posters behind the counter. One has a picture of Prince Peasley, a character from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga! Spotted by Sam.

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
- Go to Little Fungi Town and play the game where you have to tilt a bar to feed wooden Piranhas, The announcer looks like Geno from Super Mario RPG! Spotted by Ultimate Yoshi.
- Go to Yoshi Theater and into the main lobby. There will be posters for movies called Kirby Story, the Legend of Stafy, Wario, and Mario and Luigi itself. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.
- Go to the S.S. Chuckola and play the minigame where you need to line up some barrels to win. The skeleton who tosses the barrels to you has a resemblance to Donkey Kong. To further prove my point, the minigame revolves around one of Donkey Kong's trademark elements, barrels. Spotted by Psycho Pebble.
- Before fighting Roy in Bowser's Castle, there's a certain part where Mario needs to travel through a 2D course that greatly resembles the old castle courses in Super Mario Bros. Tthere's even a "fake" Bowser, a bridge, and an axe at the end! Spotted by Psycho Pebble.

Mario Kart DS
- Mario says different things when you turn on the game depending on whether you’re playing on a DS or a DS Lite. Spotted by Nintenbro0.
- In Wario Stadium at one part of the race you can see Diddy Kong in the stands! Spotted by Nintenbro0.

Mario Kart: Super Circuit
- On Rainbow Road, look at the background for some parts of the track. You'll see Bowser's Castle with Peach's Castle on it from Paper Mario! Spotted by Sam.

Mario Kart Wii
- When racing on Daisy Circuit, if you're playing as your Mii, the faces on the statue will be different. Spotted by Joshua.
- All your Miis make an appearance in the crowd on Luigi Circuit. Spotted by Joshua.
- One of the tracks in the Special Cup is Dry Dry Ruins, an obvious reference to the dungeon in Paper Mario. Spotted by Joshua.
- Sometimes your Mii will appear on the message board before the first escalator in Coconut Mall. Spotted by crankymama5452.
- Your Mii may operate the tollbooths on the highway course. Spotted by crankymama5452.
- Your Mii may replace the snowboarder statue on DK's Summit. Spotted by crankymama5452.
- Koopa’s face on the first billboard in Koopa Cape may be replaced with your Mii. Spotted by crankymama5452.

Mario Party 6
- In Snowflake Lake you can see the original Mario figure carved in a small chunk of ice in the north central area of the board by the huge Mr. Blizzard. Spotted by crankymama5452.
- On the mode select screen you can call out names like Goomba, Cheep Cheep, and Sky Guy to trigger a scene involving that character. Spotted by crankymama5452.

Mario Party 7
- In Pyramid Park you can find original Mario markings on the walls of the cliff behind the oasis. Spotted by crankymama5452.

New Super Mario Bros
- When you're fighting one of the bosses, the music in the background is a remix of the Mario 3 boss music. Spotted by Ryan "Blaze" Koopa.

Paper Mario
- In Lady Boo's mansion, find a room where there isn’t anything you have to do. Jump into the container in the middle of the room to become 8-bit Mario! Spotted by Nintenbro0.
- In the first page of Luigi's diary, he makes references to the Mario Tennis, Party, and Kart series. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.
- The music that plays in Yoshi Village is a remix of the Yoshi's Island title screen (after the game is beat). Spotted by Sgt. Fly.
- When you get Fuzzipede out of the whale before Chapter 5, the whale says "They should call you Dr. Mario!" I don't need to explain this one. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
- Whenever you receive an Email from Peach, the intro music from Super Mario World plays. When you get an Email from X (Jolene), the Ice Land map theme from Mario 3 plays, and the World Clear music from SMW plays when you get an Email from anyone else. Spotted by Blaze Koopa.
- Go up in to the air duct in the X-Naut Fortress, and drop down the vent to the far right. When you come out from behind the curtain, Mario and his partner will be 8-bit! Spotted by Sgt. Fly.
- Read the note the skeleton is holding in Hooktail's Castle. At the end, it'll say "My last words go to my son Kolorado; I love you and am proud of who you've become." A reference to the archeologist in Paper Mario. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.
- After you beat the game, go to Poshley Heights to see Lady Bow and Bootler on a little vacation. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.
- Go up in to the air duct in the X-Naut Fortress, and drop down the vent to the far right. When you come out from behind the curtain, Mario and his partner will be 8-bit! Spotted by Sgt. Fly.
- Read the note the skeleton is holding in Hooktail's Castle. At the end, it'll say "My last words go to my son Kolorado; I love you and am proud of who you've become." A reference to the archeologist in Paper Mario. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.
- After you beat the game, go to Poshley Heights to see Lady Bow and Bootler on a little vacation. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.
- After you get the sixth Crystal Star, Yoshi will be in the kitchen on the train. Spotted by Nintenbro0.
- The Iron Adonis Twins, the two Iron Clefts you fight in the Glitz Pit, have red and green shoes, the colors of a certain pair of brothers. Spotted by Shy Ranger.
- While playing through the Glitz Pit chapter, eventually, you'll see a crowd of people cheering around Rawk Hawk in the lobby. You can hammer them away, and if you get rid of all of them, Rawk Hawk will get angry. Spotted by Shy Ranger.
- After you beat the Glitz Pit chapter and return, you can to go through the fights again. Once you fight Rawk Hawk a second time, one of the spectators will say "Jumpman". That's Mario's old Donkey Kong name. Spotted by Shy Ranger.
- When you get the Email from the real Zip Toad, enter that Email and go all the way down to the picture of Zip Toad. Look at the window. If you look closely, you can see Jr. Troopa from Paper Mario! Spotted by Blaze Koopa.
- Look at Flurrie's hair. Notice how much it resembles Ludwig von Koopa's hair! Spotted by Blaze Koopa.
- During Chapter 2, in the Great Tree, find the secret shop. Enter the shop and go behind the barrels to find a baby Jabbi. Your partner will say something, then choose something like "Aw Yeah", and the baby Jabbi will follow you for the rest of the chapter. Spotted by Erica Connery.
- In Chapter 5, when Bobbery is "dying", you have to find his bottle of Chuckola Cola and give it to him so he can have a last drink before he "dies". If you've played Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga, you will recognize Chuckoa Cola as the drink you have to find to turn Queen Bean back to normal. Spotted by Sam.
- If you go to the intersection in Pleasant Path where you go left to Toad Town, down the steps to Koopa Village, or right to Koopa Bros. Fortress, there should be a plant with eyes that constantly looks at Mario. Run around it and the Wing Cap music from Super Mario 64 starts playing! Spotted by crazyhand97.

Super Mario Galaxy
- In the Buey Base galaxy there will be a sphere-shaped planet thing that looks like and has the color of a Pokeball! Spotted by Nintenbro0.
- When you're racing the Boo, look at his helmet. It appears to be the helmet that the sidekicks wear in Super Mario Strikers Charged! Spotted by Nintenbro0.
- Get a second player in 2-player co-op mode. Now go to any area, preferably with a lot of enemies. Now have the 2nd player hold down A and switch off paralyzing enemies repeatedly. Listen closely; the "ding-a-ling" sound that's made when the enemy is stunned changes pitch to go along with the music of the area. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.
- Go to the Space Junk Galaxy and go to the ship planet. Doesn't that ship look like the ship Captain Olimar and Louie used in Pikmin 2? Spotted by multiss guy.

Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins
- When you get to the Game Over screen, don't do anything for about 2 and a half minutes. Eventually, you will hear the famous Totaka's Song from Mario Paint play. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.
- In a few levels in the game, mostly the Hippo Zone, Gordos, common enemies from the Kirby series, appear as enemies. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
- After sleeping in the Rose Town inn you can find Link from the Zelda series sleeping in the bed next to you. Spotted by crankymama5452.
- You can find Samus from Metroid sleeping in the guest room bed in the Mushroom Castle. Spotted by crankymama5452.
- In the top room of Booster's Tower you can find a Samus doll in the doll basket. Spotted by crankymama5452.
- In Booster's Tower there is a room where you can go behind a curtain and come out in the form of the original Mario. The music and sound will change to match the original game, too. This is ended when you try to leave the room. Mario will turn small and run back to the curtain while the sped up music plays until he returns to normal and the game over music plays. Spotted by crankymama5452.
- The enemies called Guerilla and Chained Kong (found, respectively, in Forest Maze and Barrel Volcano) bare a resemblance to Donkey Kong. Spotted by Psycho Pebble.

Super Mario Sunshine
- This one is hard to do. Go to Noki Bay on the level where you collect red coins in that bottle. Enter the bottle and swim to the bottom, then swim over near the bottom to where there should be 2 or 3 holes. Enter the hole on the left and rotate your camera to try to look through the wall. There is a brown book sitting there, could it be Luigi's diary? (It is impossible to get out of the wall.) Spotted by Nintenbro0.
 - Go to Sirena Beach and walk around the hotel. Do you notice that the placement of pools and bars are in the same shapes and places as control pads and buttons on the GameCube controller? Spotted by Nintenbro0.
- At the beginning of the game when you see all the paint on the Airstrip, the paint is actually Mario's face with his eyes crossed out! Spotted by Nintenbro0.
- On the Airstrip there is a flagpole. Climb up it and on the flag it says Nintendo Entertainment! Spotted by Nintenbro0.
- Look at the cutscene where FLUDD scans Mario for the first time. While FLUDD is scanning Mario, look at the bottom-left corner to see three brief clips from Super Mario Bros, Super Mario World, and Super Mario 64. Also notice that the SMW clip has Mario fighting with Iggy. Spotted by Blaze Koopa.
- At the beginning of the game, when goop is still covering the Pianta Statue, talk to Princess Peach nearby and you'll get a birds-eye view of the goop. It seems to be spread out in the shape of a Jumping Piranha Plant from Super Mario World. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.

Super Mario World
- In the Special World, listen to the map music. After a little bit, the original Super Mario Bros. music will start playing! Spotted by Blaze Koopa.
- At the end of Funky (the last level in the Special World) there is a huge message made out of coins. The message reads "YOU ARE A SUPER PLAYER!" Spotted by Blaze Koopa.

Super Paper Mario
- Go to Francis's secret rooms after entering the codes. Look through the rooms to find old items from other Mario games and a Wii, plus other systems. Ohhh, and don't forget to look at all the posters and everything! Spotted by Nintenbro0.
- Every time you beet a chapter your Pixls do a little dance. Doesn't that dance look like the dance Kirby does after he beats a level? Spotted by Nintenbro0.
- When you're about to fight Fracktail his eyes do the loading thing from the Wii Shop Channel. Spotted by Nintenbro0.
- Catch Cards of the previous Paper Mario partners can be found in the game. The Paper Mario partner cards can be found on every 10 sections of the Flopside Pit of 100 Trials. The Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door partner cards are a reward from King Sammer after completing the Duel of 100. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.
- When you hit the Star Block to end a chapter, the Crystal Stars briefly float around. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.
- If you go to Francis's left room, one of the things he is going to buy is "Larry Koopa: Zombie Heartbreaker", thus proving the Koopalings weren't forgotten! Spotted by ckday.
- Mario has a picture of all his old partners in his house. Spotted by Nintenbro0.
- Talk to Bleu and he'll give Peach a new hairstyle. Spotted by Nintenbro0.
- The two brothers you meet on Mount Lineland are wearing green and red, and are huge fans of the colors. Spotted by Shy Ranger.
- When you have Piccolo as your Pixl partner, your jumps and Bowser's flame attack will sound the same as in Super Mario Bros. Spotted by Shy Ranger.
- The Pal Pills seems like an original item for the Marioverse, but actually in the Mario World episode "Rock TV", Peach and Yoshi hit a block that sends out several mini-Marios, very similar to what happens when you use Pal Pills! This is almost certainly a coincidence but the similarity is cool. Spotted by Blaze Koopa.

Super Smash Bros. Melee
- When Kirby uses his down special move, one of the heavy objects he transforms into is a Thwomp from the Mario Party series. Spotted by Your Twin the Fourth.
- If Mario gets hit by Jigglypuff's Sing move, he will fall sleep in the same position he does in Super Mario 64 when you don't press any button! Spotted by Psycho Pebble.
- Mario and Luigi have alternate color swaps that resemble Wario and Waluigi's clothes! They also have one that resembles their clothes after getting a Fire Flower. Spotted by Psycho Pebble.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
- If you do Mario's second taunt he'll reenact how he dies in Donkey Kong. Spotted by larry.
- If you smash one of the pillars on the Luigi's Mansion stage, a Boo will appear for a second. Spotted by Cornpie.
- If you do a taunt as Wario while riding the Wario Bike, he'll do a special taunt, waving at the camera then picking his nose. Spotted by Mudkip.
- If you hold up while riding the Wario Bike, you can do a wheelie. Spotted by Mudkip.
- When you jump on Bowser while he is in the air he will fall down like Morton or Roy from Super Mario World. Spotted by Superstarsaga.
- If you keep changing Wario's color he'll eventually be in his original clothes instead of his WarioWare outfit. Spotted by Larry.

Yoshi's Story
- When you grab a Heart Fruit to turn invincible in each level after completing a mini-game, a letter will be spelt out in coins. If you put these letters together from the first to last stage, you will find the hidden message "YOU ARE YOSHI'S GREAT PARTNER". Spotted by Sgt. Fly.
- In the Torrential Maze level, there will be various names of Nintendo icons written on the walls, including Mario, Luigi, Zelda, and N64. Spotted by Sgt. Fly.

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