10 Most MIND-BLOWING Things We Learned From The Nintendo Gigaleak

3. Mario Lamping Yoshi

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A few years back, Super Mario World designer Shigefumi Hino confirmed that Mario, much as it appears in tiny sprite form, is indeed punching Yoshi in the bonce to make his tongue stick out.

This horrible act of animal abuse was apparently much grimmer in the game's original assets: the PETA-provoking plumber isn't just giving his dino companion a clip around the ear, but full-on lamping him in the swede. But given the demonic nature of Yoshi's original sprite, maybe that's slightly understandable.

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