5 More Fun Nintendo Facts

In the retail box art for MarioKart Double Dash!!, Luigi’s “L” emblem on his cap is backwards.

The Fushimi Inari-taisha Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, was said by Shigeru Miyamoto to be his inspiration for creating StarFox.

Version 1.0 of the Nintendo Switch’s firmware had an Easter Egg in which performing a motion gesture on a specific day would unlock a special hidden version of the NES game “Golf”, a tribute to Nintendo of Japan’s late CEO Satoru Iwata.

The Virtual Boy was such a huge commercial failure that the library only totaled to 19 games in North America, 23 worldwide.

A slightly hidden engraving under the thumbsticks on all Nintendo Switch Pro Controllers reads “THX2ALLGAMEFANS!”