20 Things You Somehow Missed In Super Mario Bros: The Movie
16. The Devolution Guns Are Nintendo Super Scopes
King Koopa (Dennis Hopper) rocks a devolution gun later in the movie, which when fired reverts the target back to their base ancestral species, whether humans into chimps, or a Dinohattan resident into a reptilian dinosaur.
Hilariously, the weapon itself wasn't a bespoke prop created from scratch for the production, but actually a Nintendo peripheral sneaky inserted into the film.
The devolution gun is in fact the Nintendo Super Scope - a light-gun for the SNES released in 1992, the year before the movie came out.
But given that the art department sprayed the guns a darker shade of grey in order to achieve a more "realistic" weaponised look, you'd be forgiven for missing it.
On one hand it could be called a cynical product tie-in, but on the other, can it really be product placement if 99.8% of people didn't even notice it?