Top 5 Bizarre Nintendo Facts Every Fan Should Know About

Nintendo is one of the oldest and most famous gaming studios in the world. Despite this fact, there are still plenty of facts that go unknown to the general population. While those facts are interesting to read, some facts are well-known to all Nintendo fans.

Fans today will get to know some Nintendo facts you probably do know. And this will probably help the fans to revise the facts they know as well.

The secret of hats in Mario

Many fans have played the classic Super Mario Bros. game. Well, some fans will know Mario’s companion in Super Mario Odyssey, Cappy is based on a real-life article of clothing known as a hat. In the 2002 GameCube game Super Mario Sunshine, the lettering on Mario’s hat is a bright red M is a reference to the main protagonist of the Super Mario series Mario.

But fans cannot see the red M on Mario’s hat in the 1985 game Super Mario Bros. This leads many fans to believe that this is not the real Mario. Notably, The L on Waluigi’s hat is actually upside down to signify that he’s an evil version of Luigi. In Super Mario Galaxy, Rosalina refers to a special one throughout the game to players. The name of the special one is actually Princess Peach.

Some Zelda and Splatoon facts

Fans know the Legend of Zelda as Zelda no Densetsu in Japan, which translates to Legend of Zelda. The main protagonist of The Legend of Zelda series isn’t Zelda; the name of this character is actually Link. The GameCube and Wii versions of Twilight Princess are flipped visually because Nintendo wanted Link to be right-handed on the Wii. version. This remastering in Nintendo games is not a new case. 

Nintendo’s online multiplayer shooter Splatoon gets its name from combining the word splat with cartoon. This references the art style of the game where players spray paint on each other.

Nintendo Console’s naming convection

One of Nintendo’s first handhelds known as Game & Watch gets its name from the fact that those devices included both a game and a watch. And surprisingly so, Nintendo’s latest console, the Nintendo Switch gets its name from the fact that the console can switch between being a handheld and a Home console device.

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Metroid’s main character is a girl

Nintendo named the main character of its two-dimensional shooting franchise, Metroid, Samus Aaron. The Super Smash Brothers Brawl for the Nintendo Wii showed fans Samus is a girl by using Samus’s Final Smash.

Most people know that Pokemon is a portmanteau of Pocket Monsters, but fans will already know that Digimon stands for digital monsters. The Pokemon Ekans name spelled backward is snake, but fans figured that out by looking at the pokemon. Fans will already know that Kirby was in Fortnite.

More Mario facts you did know

Did you know that the creator of The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, and Pikmin also created Mario? The super in Super Mario Bros. comes from the super mushroom power-up. The classic Mario enemy Boo gets its name from the onomatopoeia Boo, which is the sound that a ghost makes. The iconic Mario enemy Bob-omb gets its name from the words Bob and bomb. This is a direct reference to J. Robert Oppenheimer, creator of the atomic bomb.

To promote the release of Super Mario Odyssey, Nintendo released the Super Mario cereal, which included a built-in Amiibo that worked in the game as well.

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