- Super Mario Land (pictured) is the first game in the Super Mario series to not be developed by Shigeru Miyamoto.
- Lizardon is the twelfth boss in Wario's Woods, shares the Japanese name of Charizard, a Pokémon character in the Pokémon series.
- In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, if Mario sleep in the Inns 50 times, a Cameraman Lakitu will appear, congratulate, and give Mario 200 coins.
- Squawks the Parrot is the only Animal Buddy in the Donkey Kong Country series to appear in all the installments of the series.