Super Mario Bros. Wonder: all of the latest on Mario’s new Switch adventure

“I counted the number of sticky notes we had, and there were over 2,000!”

Super Mario Bros. Wonder comes out on Friday, and the game is absolutely bursting with ideas. Turns out, though, that a lot of things were left on the cutting room floor. This interview series from Nintendo gets into some of the fun details. My favorite comes from famed composer Koji Kondo:

I shared the idea of an eight-heads-tall, life-sized, live-action Mario humming along with the background music as he goes along… When he jumps, he says to himself, “Boing!” …The idea was never used, though.