The Most Messed Up Thing Hidden in a Mario Game

What's the most messed up thing found in a Mario game? Well there's quite a few, but I think this one takes the cake.

Mario thumbnail render from @Ndy meme video.


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Music credits:
Songs from various Mario OST's

"Goomba Village" - Paper Mario
"Coconut Mall" - Mario Kart Wii

[Happymbm]

"Hey Jim, we need some placeholder images to test out the face cam. Got anything?"

"Yeah for sure, here's some colored lines, cute mascots, and, oh yeah, A GETTY IMAGE OF A TERRORIST ATTACK."

[TightPantsJack]

Since the image was in the news at the time of the game's development, it's highly likely someone just grabbed the first picture they saw on a news site when they needed photos of actual faces to use as a camera test.

[Alex--Gaming]

"XXX" holds a different term in Japanese. It just means "unknown" or "mystery", so it's essentially "Peach's Unknown Item". This fits with the localized "Peach's ???". Could it be something adult? Sure, possibility is there, but it could really be anything. Maybe Mario just doesn't know what mascara looks like, I mean, I sure have a hard time shopping for that for my Doordash orders lol

That said, Peach drinks alcohol in Super Mario Kart 🤔

[No-ucfg]

I'd say the best thing in a mario game is the "Vibe Scepter" on Super Princess Peach. When the game ends and the scepter is lost, the ending sequence says that perhaps the scepter made its way to your house and is the reason your parents have been so happy lately.

[arixraven]

A tragedy that should be treated solemnly.

*COCONUT MALL*

[tiko-]

It does kind of seem like a stress test for a facial recognition algorithm. Maybe it would be difficult to pick the main subject of it with how close the kid is to the dude. Pure speculation of course, and seems like overkill for a game with a camera in a fixed position aimed at a chair. Has anyone tried feeding it to the game's camera input?

[movezig]

I've heard that developers will sometimes use shocking images as placeholders to make absolutely sure they get replaced in the final product. Maybe that's what's going on here, and someone wasn't doing their damn job?

[creepycreeper]

5:08 shouldn't have made me laugh, but the juxtaposition of coconut mall music over the top of an image a terrorist attack is really funny. Not to mention the music peaks right as he says what it is lmao

[RotcodFox]

Before the video even started, I figured it'd be Peach's bedroom. I was partially right

[Odie-Odie]

Possibly they just opened their web browser and saved one of the first images they saw from the news section of their home page and used it for their test. In hindsite it looks devious but my money is on an oversight.

[isaacdavis]

My guess is that the xxx item is supposed to be her underwear. That is a pretty typical trope in old anime or manga like dragonball. Her reaction of scolding Mario would match that item rather than something she was purely embarrassed about or try to hide. The moniker "toadstool's xxx" could easily refer to bra. Link's awakening did a similar joke in the original game where you had to retrieve the mermaid's bra which was changed to a necklace in later games.

My guess is the underwear is behind the fireplace because there isn't a lot of furniture in the room and that is one of the few places to click on. Since it was a secret joke it makes sense it was hidden where most people wouldn't look. A fireplace is not a normal place to keep any item in real life anyways, underwear or not.

[SWISS-]

Not necessarily specifically named. If you went to save, and it retained the folder path, if they accidentally clicked a file in that folder, they could have overwritten an original camtest02.jpg. I mean it's more likely a very sick joke, but definitely possible.

[miles]

It may have been used to test facial recognition functions, and then it's so obviously unfitting for the game, that if it showed up accidentally, a tester would know to note, "Hey, why the FUCK is a photo of the Belsan attack in the fucking Mario Kart game!?"

[SterbiusMcGurbius]

And that's why watching Two Brothers One Mushroom will always be one of my Pixel Portals.

[eskeline]

i feel like it was used during testing because if you see a terrorist attack instead of a picture of your face, you'd assume something went wrong

[Dwedit]

Daisy's Extra Eye from Super Smash Bros. Melee (Trophy) was pretty disturbing.

[FourthRoot]

They probably just needed any jpg. and decided to open their web browser and download the first image they could find. The homepage of their web browser was probably some sort of news feed and naturally featured on the front page, that image. The programmer probably downloaded it without a second thought.

[liamturner]

Isabelle AnimalCrossing has given lectures about the difference between whisky and whiskey and it's kind of canon, so Princess Peach having a stash of an alcoholic beverage isn't really that absurd imo

[j-yoshi_justcallmej]

SwankyBox shouting out to Boundary Break is the crossover of a lifetime.

[jtrevor]

I always figured the "Princess's ???" in SMRPG was a reference to the Bahamut Lagoon (from Square) item of the same name. It was found in the rescued princess's bedroom there too, and if you found all five of them in the same game you could make (arguably) the most powerful dragon available.