History Trivia / HotelMario

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk2i07t-uE4 In the beta opening, when Mario is reading the letter]], Bowser would have read the letter instead of Mario reading it himself.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk2i07t-uE4 In the beta opening, when Mario is reading the letter]], Bowser's voice actor would have read the letter instead of Mario reading it himself.

* OrphanedReference: When instructing the player to "[[ReadTheFreakingManual check out the enclosed instruction booklet]]" in the intro cutscene, Mario holds up one finger. This is a holdover of the cutscene's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk2i07t-uE4 original dialogue]], where he would have told players to press button 1 for instructions or button 2 to skip ahead to the game. The animation of him holding up two fingers was cut in the final version, which freezes on the frame of Mario holding up one finger.

** [[[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk2i07t-uE4 In the beta opening, when Mario is reading the letter]], Bowser's voice actor would have read the letter instead of Mario reading it himself.

** Hotel 6 has [[DummiedOut no game data]], with the internal level order skipping from 5 (Ludwig) to 7 (Wendy)[[note]]contrary to UrbanLegendOfZelda, no, it cannot be unlocked by beating the game in under an hour -- it just doesn't exist in there[[/note]]. [[http://www.blackmoonproject.co.uk/interviews/trici_venola.php Accordingly,]] a "Cheese Hotel" was among one of the concept drawings, but development was disgusted by the idea and promptly had the artist sacked. Presumably, this would have belonged to Iggy, who doesn't have his own hotel in the final game.

* ''Hotel Mario'' is very similar in gameplay to ''[[http://www.atariprotos.com/5200/software/looneytunes/looneytunes.htm Looney Tunes Hotel]]'', a game planned for the UsefulNotes/Atari5200 but cancelled. It's unknown whether ''Hotel Mario's'' development team actually knew of this game.

* ContractualObligationProject: This game, along with the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames Zelda]]'' CD-i games, exists as part of a contract Nintendo and Philips made after the cancellation of the UsefulNotes/{{SNESCDRom}}. Consequently, Nintendo had little interest or oversight other than ensuring that the characters were on-model in the packaging and manual artwork.

* ''Hotel Mario'' is very similar in gameplay to ''[[http://www.atariprotos.com/5200/software/looneytunes/looneytunes.htm Looney Tunes Hotel]]'', a game planned for the UsefulNotes/Atari5200 but cancelled. It's unknown whether ''Hotel Mario's'' development team actually knew of this game.
* Similarly to ''Music/WithTheBeatles'', ''Hotel Mario'' holds the dubious and downright morbid distinction of having been released on the exact same day of the exact same year as Music/KurtCobain's suicide.
* Later, and by sheer coincidence, ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' would be released on the 29th anniversary of ''Hotel Mario'''s release.

* OldShame: Along with the ''Zelda'' games, Nintendo prefers not to bring up this debacle of a game nowadays.

* TalkingToHimself: Creator/MarcGraue voices everyone except Princess Toadstool.

* OldShame:
** Along with the ''Zelda'' games, Nintendo prefers not to bring up this debacle of a game nowadays.
** Averted with Creator/MarcGraue (who provided the voice of nearly everyone in the game). In an interview, he said he had lots of fun doing the voices and he's happy that they're being used in WebAnimation/YouTubePoop despite being more than two decades old.

* FanNickname:
** Fat Mario and Gay Luigi.
** [[EvilLaugh Creepy]] [[BigBad Bowser's]] [[EvilLaugh Laugh]]?
** 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.