Super Mario’s 35th anniversary has gotten lots of fanfare by Nintendo, from the release of multiple LEGO sets toMario-themed board games like Jenga and Monopoly. It has also been rumored thatNintendo is remastering 3DMariogames to celebrate, includingSuper Mario 64,Super Mario Sunshine, and bothSuper Mario Galaxygames, as well as the Wii U’sSuper Mario 3D World.
Though no announcement has been made by Nintendo about whether these rumored remakes are happening, the older titles have been in the spotlight for other reasons. One self-proclaimed “Super Mario Galaxyexpert” on Twitter who goes by Captain Byte, a glitch hunter and former member of Team Ari Games, pointed out Thursday that the 2007 game’s logo uses a real image of the Andromeda Galaxy — namesake of BioWare’sMass Effect Andromeda, recently ported to Steam.
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Andromeda, also called Messier 31 (or M31), is the closest galaxy to the Milky Way, according to NASA. Captain Byte believes the swirling nebula faded into the word “Galaxy” inSuper Mario Galaxy’s logo is a horizontally-flipped 2005 image by physician and astronomer Robert Gendler taken with a 90-hour exposure. Some areas of the images do line up, so it clearly is the Andromeda Galaxy, but it’s hard to say whether it uses Gendler’s image specifically due to a few skewed star locations.
Mario Galaxyis not the only title in Nintendo’s flagship series that has gotten attention for interesting discoveries in recent months. A leakedpre-launch version ofSuper Mario 64revealed Luigiwas planned to be in the game, validating 24 years of rumors and memes about “L being real” in the Nintendo 64 classic.
One reason why there has been so much fervor around the idea of Nintendo remaking its 3DMariogames for Switch is that they are beloved by many, and deserving of updates.Galaxy 1and2are highly requestedSuper Marioremakesbecause of how creative and beautiful they were, suggesting there is a lot of potential to have them return on an HD console.
As long as those potential remakes are just rumors, fans will have to wait for the possibility to jump around in what is, apparently, the Andromeda Galaxy as their favorite portly plumber. In the meantime,Mario’s 35th anniversary has led to special Switch controllersand other goodies for Nintendo fans to get their hands on.
