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Yoshi’s actually T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas and Mario is a homo nintendonus

6 Aug 2014
Steve Wright

Twitter’s blown up today with scans of a 1993 Nintendo Character Guide. In the guide, it’s revealed that Yoshi’s full name is T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas and that Mario isn’t a homo sapien, but rather a ‘homo nintendonus’.

We can’t make this stuff up, people. See below.

Blake J. Harris, the author of the above tweets, also penned Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation. In short, he knows his stuff.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

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