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Mario has hardly ever had that problem.
But on one fateful day in 2016, Mario looked creepy.
Nintendoposted an unsettling phototo promote the Switch, and now former employees have revealed the company’s regret.
“This [photo] was very controversial,” Yang says.
Without an official console asset, Nintendo worried that fans would interpret a quasi-human Mario as overpromising.
In reality, fans interpreted Mario as being in the shower.
“It won’t happen again,” they both say.
So it’s official: Mario will be beautiful forevermore.
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