History YMMV / HotelMario

* SignatureScene: Mario's ProjectileToast scene. While there are scenes like this one for coming across a helpful [[GimmickLevel gimmick]], this one stands out the most for emphasizing the game's nonsensical nature.

* GameBreaker: The Fire Flower. Naturally, it kills almost every enemy in one hit. To put this in perspective, the enemy hit boxes are very precise, added to the fact that Wigglers take three jumps to kill. The Fire Flower on the other hand makes it almost easy to mow down enemies.

* DifficultySpike: From the fifth hotel onwards, all the elevators no longer have any arrows indicating which direction they go, and they continuously change which floor they head towards, the later levels require having to do two sections before completion.

* {{Fanon}}: An odd example that crosses over with another CD-i game and only exists in [=YouTube=] Poops, but it is pretty much YTP fanon to use Ludwig's Castle Hotel as [[VideoGame/TheLegendofZeldaCDIGames the King's]] castle, usually not even changing the sign that claims it is Ludwig's building.

** Mario's exhortation to the player to "check out the enclosed instruction book" is funnier now that [[VideoGame/{{Tunic}} an entire game]] exists that revolves around piecing together its own manual.
** The Gay Luigi LadyMondegreen becomes especially funny when you consider he gets some serious HoYay with Prince Peasley in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga''.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' also has a similar MemeticMutation to "Gay Luigi", with "Gay Bowser". Both lines are even said by Mario.
** Fast forward to ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario''. In Chapter 7, Mario is separated from Princess Peach. Where is the princess taken? The [[MemeticMutation "Overthere!"]]
** This line from Luigi, considering his [[CowardlyLion modern characterization:]]
--->''Well maybe a Koopa will lend us his [light], if we...(raises fist) '''persuade''' him!''

** In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime'', Mr. Zurkon (also voiced by Marc Graue) calls his enemies "toasters".
** This wouldn't be [[VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar the]] [[VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash last]] [[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing time]] Mario would use [[RunningGag a giant fan]] to solve a problem.

* NeverLiveItDown: Luigi mentions that he wants to eat spaghetti only once in the whole game, but that's enough for [=YouTube=] Poopers to depict him with a spaghetti addiction.

* FridgeLogic: As this WebVideo/{{Cinemasins}}-esque [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAlCaOWWLZo video]] points out, why would Mario buy and carry Bowser's Sourpuss Bread, since it's, you know, the branded product of his {{Archenemy}}?

* CommonKnowledge: Despite their many similiarities leading people to lump them in with the VideoGame/TheLegendofZeldaCDIGames, ''Hotel Mario'' was not developed by the same studio.

* FanworkOnlyFans: How many of the people who know about this game have actually played it? Most people only know about it because of all of the fan-made edits of the cutscenes. Even many of those who are familiar with the gameplay have only seen it through someone else's LetsPlay.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The fact that the gameplay revolves solely around ''shutting doors''. WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd suggests it could've worked as an early 80s arcade game, but it didn't stand a chance in the early-to-mid-90s.

** Fast forward to ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario''. In Chapter 7, Mario is separated from Princess Peach and [[spoiler:Bowser]]. Where is the princess taken? The [[MemeticMutation "Overthere!"]]

* SoBadItsGood: Oh so much. While the gameplay is somewhat decent (though a little boring), the cutscenes are riddled with {{Narm}} and the animation looks like it was made in MS Paint.

** French Youtube Poop fans sometime refer to CD-i Bowser as "Boswor" because of how weirdly his name is pronounced in the game's French dub.

* NeverLiveItDown: Luigi mentions that he wants to eat spaghetti only once in the whole game, but that's enough for Youtube Poopers to depict him with a spaghetti addiction.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The fact that the gameplay revolves solely around ''shutting doors''. WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd suggests it could've worked as an early 80s arcade game, but it didn't stand a chance in the mid-90s.

** This game's versions of Mario and Luigi are respectively known by fans as Fat Mario and Gay Luigi. The former comes from Mario's OffModel design in the game's FMV cutscenes, while the latter comes from the notoriously-misheard opening line in the game's intro, where the phrase "a picnic, eh, Luigi?" is misinterpreted as "a picnic, Gay Luigi."

** Fat Mario and Gay Luigi.

** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'' takes place in a hotel. Naturally, the internet has noticed. Adding onto the hilarity, the lead technical character artist for ''Luigi's Mansion 3'' is Jeff Zoern, who actually worked on ''Hotel Mario''.
*** Additionally, Ludwig's Thump Castle Hotel is [[BigBoosHaunt haunted]], complete with giant Boos.