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Behold the Prohibited Marios of Nintendo's Internal Illustration Manual

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Uploaded to the Internet Archive a few weeks back was Nintendo's Mario Family Illustration Manual, providing strict guidance to the company's internal designers and marketers not to mess with official illustrations of Mario and other characters. The company's reputation for stiff brand management notwithstanding, it's standard corporate fare made interesting mostly for its depictions of Prohibited Marios. — Read the rest The post Behold the Proh…
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An official 2005 guide to the presentation of illustrations of Mario characters, used internally in Nintendo of America, prohibits the modification of official illustrations. Below are examples of prohibited illustrations, as it seems that the company did not allow to change the expression, the dimensions of the body parts, their clothes and even add surrounding objects: An official 2005 guide for the presentation of Mario character illustration…

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Nintenderos broke the news in on Thursday, January 8, 2026.
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