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• An infamous video on YouTube shows Spanish-Brazilian evangelist Josue Yrion demonizing popular games (most of which he calls "Nintendos") of the time, and frequently getting things wrong even beyond his insistence that they were tools of the Devil. His most infamous quotes include:
  (on the game that helped create the ESRB) The most— one of the most dirty and perverse games Nintendo ever created.^note Nintendo had no hand in the game beyond censoring the Super Nintendo version - it was developed by Midway and published by Acclaim.
  Resident Eevil. The evil, resides in you (this is a Nintendo^note It's not). Evil possesses you. You are a slave of evil, you are martyrized by evil, you serve evil and live on evil.
  Doom Namba Too. Doom Número Dosssss. You can see the devil, Hell, souls going in. (later, showing a magazine ad for the game with the quote 'So, how's Hell?') Look at what it says here: How. To go. To Hell!
• Super Mario Bros.:
  • A 1988 article of The New York Times claimed that the Super Mario Bros. were janitors as opposed to plumbers. This same article was quoted, error included, in a September 20, 2013 obituary for longtime Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi; a correction was made on September 27, 25 years after the fact.
  • There exist countless instances across multiple media in which descriptions of Donkey Kong label the Damsel in Distress as Peach (it's Pauline; Donkey Kong is from 1981 and Peach wasn't introduced until Super Mario Bros. in 1985), and makes no distinction between the original character of Donkey Kong and the modern ones. The last point is a bit more forgivable, as the only noticeable difference between the original DK (now Cranky Kong) and his son/grandson of today is that the latter wears a tie with his initials.
  • This Brazilian TV segment from the early 1990s about Super Mario Bros. 3 made a combo of fact check failures. Mario was called "Super Mario", he was described as an Italian firefighter that is "always angry"^note Although this was not a mistake, since in Portuguese, the word used for firefighter and plumber overlap, calling a plumber the same word as a firefighter is only in some parts of Brazil and it fell under disuse, and to get an extra life, you don't have to simply collect coins, you'll have to eat them. The segment ends with a poorly made animated 8-bit sequence with the reporter telling Mario about children wanting to know about the game. Mario then talks in an angry tone and kicks her like a character from a fighting game or a beat-em' up. In short, it depicts Mario as a Jerkass who Would Hit a Girl; additionally he is depicted without his hat on, oddly enough, and the colors of his outfit are similar to the artwork of the game. What's odder is that the segment begins with two girls playing the game.

  • The Mario Brothers are on the cover of MAD #292 (shown here). Luigi is based on the second player color palette, with green irises, green boots and green on part of his gloves. Readers were quick to point out, if he is Luigi, his cap should have an L on it and not an M like Mario.
  • The Scholastic book How to Draw Nintendo Heroes and Villains contained a couple of infamous errors. Identifying Snide from Donkey Kong 64 as a villain is at least understandable, since he worked for K. Rool in the game's backstory. Naming Bowser "Kerog", on the other hand...^ExplanationWhile "Kerog" is the name of a robotic enemy in Mega Man 2, an official render of Bowser distributed to publishers by Nintendo contains the letters "kerog" in its file name - most likely a botched Romanization of "Kellogg", which featured a promotional deal with Nintendo around the time of Super Mario 64's release. (The artwork in the book is directly based on one of Bowser's official renders from the game◊, which also appeared on a trading card◊ given away in Kellogg's cereal boxes.) It's possible the author just mistakenly assumed "kerog" referred to the character without bothering to fact check.
  • There was a newspaper article about how "Sega's mascot Mario" was more recognizable than Mickey Mouse.
  • When Penguin biscuits started including trivia questions on their wrappers, one of them was "In what game did Sega's Mario first appear?" Maybe that's why they later just focused on jokes...
  • Official advertisements for Super Mario RPG stated that without Mario's help, various characters' wishes would never come true, such as Mallow finding his parents, Geno wanting to Become a Real Boy, or Booster finding a bride. Geno is a star spirit possessing a doll for his goal of getting the pieces of the Star Road back - he never becomes human and never expresses any desire to do so. And as Booster is a minor villain attempting to take Peach as his bride, Mario does more to interfere with that than help. (Booster does, in fact, find a bride by the end of the game, but Mario himself had little to do with that.) At least the Mallow part was right.
  • Another error seen in official sources, such as Nintendo Power and at least one TV ad, was referring to the sword in the castle as Smithy. The sword is named Exor, and is never confused with Smithy inside the game itself. Smithy is the final boss in the alternate dimension to which Exor acts as a portal.
  • GamePro once claimed that Bowser was a playable character in Mario Party 2 in their preview. While there is the rare Bowser Suit item that puts the character in a full bodysuit but leaves their head exposed, as well as the Bowser Bomb item that allows Bowser to roll Dice Blocks and travel the board like the playable characters, the King of the Koopas himself is unplayable. Funnily enough, Mario Party 4 has Bowser playable in the Beach Volley Folly minigame, Mario Party 10 features a mode where a fifth player controls Bowser and tries to destroy everyone else, and Super Mario Party promoted Bowser to a normal playable character three years after that.
  • In Bad Creepypasta's second video on the creepypasta The Truth Behind Super Mario, they say that Peach's name was "Toadstool" for the first three games and that "Peach" in Super Mario 64 is treated as a nickname. "Toadstool" was a Dub Name Change that lasted for four main games (and various spinoffs) until it was officially abolished with Super Mario 64; her name was always "Peach"/"Pichi" in Japan. Super Mario 64 treats "Peach" as her first name, with "Toadstool" as a surname.
  • A brochure of the video game trade fair Gamescom describing Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story claims that the Big Bad of the game is "King Fawful Bowser", implying that "Fawful" is Bowser's given name. In reality, Fawful is an independent character and Bowser isn't the villain of this game, he was Promoted to Playable instead and actually opposes Fawful.
  • Official press releases for Super Mario 3D World stated that this is the first game in the mainline series to feature Princess Peach as a playable character. It isn't, not even in Japan. Everyone's moveset in 3D World are even direct references to that title.
    • When the newspaper Chicago Red Eye made a review of the game, the editor accidentally used a fan cover made by a user from◊ Fantendo instead of the real cover. More blatant since the game is for Wii U, while that cover has a Wii cover design.
    • The GameStop in-store advertisement of 3D World says that, like her appearance in Super Mario Bros. 2, Peach can float. The problem is that they show Rosalina when they say that.
    • The official website for the Nintendo Switch port of 3D World misspells Rosalina's name as Rosaline. A minor error, sure, but one that Nintendo shouldn't be making.
  • GameStop in Italy placed preorders of Mario Kart 8 showing a fan-made cover. The fakeness of that is blatant, with Peach, Wario and Bowser clearly using their artwork from Wii and having Fawful between the playable characters. And later, when the game was released, their official review included a fake character screen made by the same author, including not only Fawful but also Dimentio and Mr. L.
  • When Doug Bowser became Nintendo of America's new president, the Seattle Times article originally stated that "Yes, he shares a name with a Pokémon". It should be obvious that Bowser is not a Pokémon but the main villain of the Super Mario Bros. series, and luckily they soon corrected the article.
  • The early-morning show on the (now-defunct) Midwest Radio station in the UK is rife with this, usually whenever the bumbling DJ presenting the show presents listeners with a game-related competition. During one such competition, in which one lucky listener could win a copy of Super Mario Galaxy 2, the question was "What occupation does Mario have?" the answer of course being "Plumber". When the answer was revealed, the DJ and his co-presenter claimed that you could tell that Mario was a plumber because "he carries a spanner (aka a wrench, to those across The Pond) around with him in the games", which he clearly doesn't.
  • An article on the Super Nintendo World theme park on Universal Studios Japan rattles off a few dates for major Nintendo releases. One of these is "the runaway success of Super Mario Bros. in 1983." The game came out in 1985.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • A review of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap in a reputable British newspaper claimed that Link must rescue a petrified Princess... Peach.
  • The easiest test to see if someone is a gamer or not is whether they refer to the green-hatted (usually), sword-wielding protagonist as Zelda.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Link is the only Link that is referred to as the Hero of Time. The other Links either have different titles or no in-game title at all. And he's not an elf.^note He actually was an elf in the first game, but it was later Retconned.
  • Nintendo's official Zelda site used to contain an encyclopedia that contained so many factual errors that it isn't even funny. One of the most egregious errors is the fact that the site's article on Link implied that there is only one Link. Stating exactly that is one of the worst things you can do in front of a Zelda fan. The encyclopedia's other articles included completely non-canon information that is passed off as canon. There are many examples of this.
  • Even the Hyrule Historia had its share of typos. On the page describing the six sages, the Fire Medallion is incorrectly placed next to Nabooru, the Sage of Spirit, while the Spirit Medallion is placed next to Darunia, the Sage of Fire. This is somewhat understandable, since the one arranging the graphics probably thought the yellow Spirit Medallion looked more fitting next to the gold-skinned Goron, and likewise for the red Fire Medallion and the red-haired woman (the other medallions/sages are color coordinated as such). However another error in the book involves the picture choice in the Official Timeline. To denote the placement of the game Four Swords in the timeline, they used a promotional picture from the Link to the Past GBA port with the Four Swords game built into it. The result is a split-screen picture with LttP Link on the left and the four Links of FS in the space that is strictly labeled "Four Swords." The book also incorrectly labels the Wind Waker promotional art as being "from Niko's picture show" (i.e. the intro cutscene to Phantom Hourglass). The timeline also numbers Four Swords and being released after Wind Waker when it was released beforehand in both the US and Japan.
  • Family Friendly Gaming's review of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, criticized the game for its many references to The Goddess, noting that while "goddess culture is big in Japan", it shouldn't be "shoved down our throats". The reviewer apparently missed the fact that the goddess mentioned is the fictional goddess Hylia, whose actions and mythos are very important plot points to the game and is in no way a reference to any real world goddesses or religious cultures. In addition, anyone who has actually played the games could have told them that goddesses have been mentioned before in the games; Ocarina of Time, released over a decade prior, established the creators of the games' main setting and its recurring MacGuffin as being the three Golden Goddesses.
  • Hyrule Encyclopedia and Zelda Encyclopedia contain several theories and speculation with little to no basis or rationale in canon, though they at least admit to speculating early on. However, some of their theories and "facts" are just flat-out untrue. The book is also filled with typoes, mislabeled images and at least one file-corrupted screenshot:
    • Hyrule Encyclopedia speculates the Triforce was "annihilated" at the end of Wind Waker, which isn't possible because 1: The Triforce separates but visibly remains intact in the ending and 2: Link Between Worlds shows that destroying the Triforce would cause the world to fall apart, which it clearly didn't, as the world showed no signs of decay in Phantom Hourglass and is still whole 100 years later in Spirit Tracks. Zelda Encyclopedia fixes this.
    • They claim that Ganondorf's cycle of revival began with his Dying Curse at the end of Ocarina of Time, completely ignoring Demise's speech at the end of Skyward Sword and failing to account for the other two timelines in the process. This gets even more baffling as they do bring up Demise's curse when covering Four Swords Adventures.
    • The "History of Hyrule" section claims the plot of Four Swords involved Ganon tricking Link into unsealing Vaati. Four Swords is notably one of the few games in the series where Ganon has no presence at all.
    • Their most notorious theory is that Termina is an illusion based on Skull Kid's memories that he conjured under Majora's influence. Even if you assume that every reference in the game to events in Termina's history before the Skull Kid got the mask (such as Tatl's flashback explaining how the Skull Kid met the fairies) is the result of false memories (and that's a big IF, since the encyclopedia never addresses this discrepancy), it also fails to take into account that several of the game's characters are counterparts of Ocarina of Time characters who Skull Kid never met and therefore could not have memories of.
    • Holodrum and Labrynna are referred to as parallel realities to Hyrule when they are actually neighboring countries. Coupled with the two aforementioned errors, some fans theorize the writers forgot what games they were writing about and sloppily mashed the plots of several games together (e.g. applying the premise of Four Swords Adventures to the original Four Swords, Link's Awakening's ending to Majora's Mask, and the Majora's Mask intro to Seasons and Ages).
    • The sidequest plot of "Kafei was turned into a child by the Skull Kid" was mangled into "Kafei was turned into a Skull Kid".
    • Troupe Leader Gorman is referred to as the eldest of the three Gorman Bros. when he's actually the middle child.
    • The picture captioned "Medigoron" is that of an ordinary, normal-sized goron.
    • The "Relationship Charts" have several screw-ups, such as giving names to characters that don't have them (Mrs. Ruul from Oracle of Seasons is called "Inga"), not giving names to those that did (Stockwell is correctly named in the Seasons chart, but only called "Shopkeeper" in the Ages chart), failing to connect characters that are related, connecting those who have no interaction, connecting characters incorrectly, some characters being missing, and names that are just plain wrong (The Ocarina incarnation of Guru-Guru is called "Phonogram Man" despite actually playing a Phonograph).
  • The Art and Artifacts book swaps the names of Jalhalla and Molgera from Wind Waker.
• F-Zero:
  • In a preview for the original Super Smash Bros., IGN referred to Captain Falcon as "Blue Falcon," mistaking the name of his vehicle for his name.
  • In an interview, even his voice actor in GX (the man who voiced Kalas in Baten Kaitos) called the character he voiced "Blue Falcon".
  • Mr. EAD's trophy treats his creators like villains simply because they are a "mysterious organization". Zoda's trophy starts off saying he was modified by Black Shadow, which is only true in the anime-verse, then promptly contradicts itself by noting his feud with Super Arrow, which was only present in the game-verse (he was Rick Wheeler's archenemy in the anime). Notably, these errors were also present in the Japanese version.
• Nintendo Power:
  • Nintendo Power has been known to misidentify the species of Krystal from Star Fox more than once. In one issue, they called her a cat (using this as a device to say she should've ditched Fox and hooked up with Panther by the end of Assault), and another claimed she was a ferret.
  • The same magazine also erroneously claimed in a Soulcalibur II article that Yoshimitsu is a ghost.
  • The walkthrough for Resident Evil 4 incorrectly gave the name of the Big Bad Saddler to the game's Starter Villain Mendez. They also spelled it wrong (missing a D).
  • One of their writers also seems convinced that Sonic the Hedgehog's buddy Tails is a mutant squirrel, even after someone wrote in to tell him that he's a fox. It's mainly just a Running Gag he uses to get a rise out of the fans.
  • In an article about Diddy Kong Racing DS, they referred to Dixie Kong as "Daisy".
  • One early issue covering the NES and Game Boy game Yoshi said that Yoshi has become popular "since his debut in Super Mario Bros. 3", even though Yoshi's first appearance was in Super Mario World.
  • An article in volume 72 about the X-Band specified the Super NES Multitap as the first means of multi-player gameplay ever. No it wasn't; there were other devices before it for different consoles. Two of those were the FourScore and Satellite for the original NES, the former of which was even advertised on the back covers of certain earlier issues from 1990 and '91.
  • In the review of Ranma ½: Hard Battle, the writer indicates that all of the teenage characters are siblings, with Genma being their father. The story is a romance.
  • In one issue, a writer states that Donkey Kong is his least favorite Mario Kart character because he believes primates should not operate motorized vehicles, completely forgetting that humans are essentially primates who do exactly that multiple times a day. A fan wrote in a letter about this in the next issue.
• Animal Crossing:
  • Animal Crossing players (and everyone else), find yourself something big and solid for your head before watching this. For those not familiar with the game, the turtle character that is supposedly a potential child molester is Tortimer, an NPC. Yes, in Animal Crossing, the game itself tries to seduce your children into sending it pictures of themselves. In addition, interacting with other players over the internet is only possible by swapping friend codes with that particular player; that wouldn't happen for another decade or so.
  • Not that it matters in some jurisdictions — according to a spokesman for the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force,, just being an adult and owning Animal Crossing is apparently prima facie evidence of being a pedophile.
  • The November 2002 issue of Video Games Underground has blurry images of what is likely Cubivore in their section about the original title.
  • The Player's Guide for Wild World misidentified Kapp'n as a parrot. For the record, he's a turtle (or a kappa if you're in Japan).
• A Fox affiliate made a news report warning parents to look out for potential pedophilic activity on the Nintendo DS, but of course there's the daunting task of explaining how the DS actually works. Here's a video of the important bits edited into a (misinformative) Nintendo DS commercial.
• Although it's not the focus, an article about 1988, the last time the University of Florida lost three straight games, came out with this gem: "Nintendo released Tecmo Bowl." Putting aside the fact that the arcade version was released in 1987 and the NES version was released in 1989, most actual experts agree that it was Tecmo that released Tecmo Bowl.
• Fire Emblem:
  • The official site for Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance claims that Greil is a Ranger, the Black Knight is a Paladin, and Ashnard is a Lord. The "official guidebook" on the other hand, had a section at the end of the book where they showed every playable character, and claimed that characters with a red highlight are already class-changed, while they actually just highlighted all the female characters red.
  • The official guidebook for Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (the first one released to the west) claimed that Sonia was "human", though the writers may have been confused because she has deluded herself into believing she was human, and constantly refers to herself as such. It is possible they did not want to spoil anything (not that it was really a major spoiler or anything), though they seemed to have no problem revealing Ephidel was one as well.
  • Blazing Blade also had this infamous commercial where Dorcas was (presumably) killed off when someone put poison in his mutton. The only way Dorcas can die (like most of the rest of the cast) is to have him die in combat. Nothing of "poisoned mutton" exists in the game. Also, Dorcas in-commercial looks nothing like in-game Dorcas (the commercial version wears chain armor and is balding; the game version has a full head of reddish hair and wears a sleeveless yellow tunic). The developers were good sports about it, though, because years later, upon Dorcas's introduction in Fire Emblem Heroes, he mentions "recovering from poisoned mutton" and that he "trusts nobody".
  • When a second set of Fire Emblem Fates badges appeared in Nintendo Badge Arcade, the arcade bunny may say that the second generation units were from the future. This applies to the second generation units from Awakening, not Fates, which instead implements realms that run on Year Inside, Hour Outside for the second generation.
• Tomodachi Life fell victim to this trope when a Game-Breaking Bug was patched out, and a lot of gaming media in North America and Europe misreported it as "patching out" the Gay Option.
• Metroid:
  • Enforced in the cartoon Captain N: The Game Master, since Nintendo wanted the cast to say the names of their advertised games as much as possible. As such, Mother Brain is the leader of Planet Metroid instead of Planet Zebes like in the actual Metroid games (it's also the reason why the protagonist of Kid Icarus is called just that instead of his actual name of "Pit"). The worst part though? The showrunners didn't know Samus existed, so she did not appear in the series. She appeared in the comic book adaptation, however.
  • A Rolling Stone article on Super Metroid and the influence it had on the gaming industry as a whole mentioned that "[the game] let players briefly experience the thrill of starting out with the powers you'd normally acquire over the course of the game, then it stripped them away, forcing you to slowly rebuild your arsenal." Which is a perfectly accurate description of the opening to... Metroid Prime. In Super Metroid, no such thing happens and Samus's Bag of Spilling from Metroid II goes completely unexplained.
  • In Metroid II: Return of Samus, a Kool-Aid tie-in giveaway claims that "you can battle Zebs, Zoomers, and Zebetites with your free Game Boy Metroid II Game Pak", even though all three mentioned enemies, all originating from the first game, do not actually make an appearance.
• Super Smash Bros.:
  • The BradyGames strategy guide for the original game claims that Jigglypuff's Rest move does nothing and is a completely useless gag move. Series aficionados know well that this innocent-looking move is actually one of the deadliest attacks in the game, especially in Melee, and is often an instant KO at higher percentages. This could be a case of American Kirby Is Hardcore and Americans Hate Tingle, as the writers previously stated their dislike for Jigglypuff and immediately accuse the move of being useless because of it.
  • The writers of the official NOA guide were apparently never made aware that Ditto was Dummied Out, as they still list it as one of the summonable Pokémon. Less forgivable is that they used the Mario verse's logo for Mr. Game & Watch's stage, which would be echoed later by the NOE Smash DOJO giving Sonic's stage the Mario logo.
  • The UK division of the site Kotaku published an article claiming that one of the songs in the Persona 5 DLC contained an ableist slur. There is a section in this video by Magic Mush that explains the situation.
  • In the British English version of Smash Bros. for Wii U, the trophy for the item "Lip's Stick" claims it debuted in 1996's Tetris Attack. Lip, the character the item was named after, debuted in 1995 in Panel de Pon and wasn't even in Tetris Attack: it was a Dolled-Up Installment featuring characters from the Yoshi's Island series. The previous two games where the item appeared got this right, so this is a particularly egregious error. The American English version identifies it correctly.
  • Plugged In Online's review of Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U, when listing some of the many characters in the game(s), mention Snake as being among them. While Snake was in Brawl, he didn't return to the series until Ultimate.
  • Italian magazine Pokemon Mania's reviews of Super Smash Bros. and Super Smash Bros. Melee said that Link's moveset includes the slingshot with the seeds from the Oracle games (to the point that, instead of the Smash official artworks featuring an Ocarina of Time-styled Link, they kept using artworks from the Oracle games in these articles), when actually the ranged weapon Link uses in every Super Smash Bros. game is the boomerang (Bow and arrow were introduced in Melee). Worse, the first Smash Bros. game predates the release of either Oracle of... by over two years.
  • The E3 2018 Nintendo direct refers to Zelda's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate design as her A Link Between Worlds design. It's a composite design of that one and her A Link To The Past design. She actually takes much more after the SNES design than the 3DS design, with only slight elements of the ALBW design added in. This is a translation error as the Japanese direct correctly referred to her as A Link To The Past inspired.
  • Nintendo's official website for Pokémon's 20th anniversary states, in the games timeline, that in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 64 Pikachu, Jigglypuff, and Mewtwo were playable. Mewtwo was not in the game (however, according to the Japanese website for the game, it was indeed originally going to be playable), and it is playable only as an unlockable character in Melee and Ultimate and as Downloadable Content in the Wii U/3DS version. They later fixed that bit, but still...
  • GamePro printed a guide to unlocking the secret characters in Brawl. In it, they made several glaring errors, such as calling Sheik Samus (funny, considering what the two have in common), and printing what they apparently thought was a picture of Marth, except it was a picture of Geoffrey, an unrelated Fire Emblem character who not only does not exist in the same universe as Marth, but fights with a lance instead of a sword, and on horseback. Apparently, everybody with blue hair is the same person.
  • The woman who sang the part of Ashley in Brawl's rendition of "Ashley's Theme" stated on her blog that she was chosen to do a song for the upcoming game, "Super Mario Bros. Smash".
  • The video 10 Pokémon That Actually Exist In Real Life by Facts Verse refers to the series as "Mario Smash Bros".
• Several German websites claim that Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima, made by Bandai Namco Entertainment for iOS and Windows, is a port of Nintendo's DS hit Brain Age, when it is actually an independent implementation of Ryūta Kawashima's work; Namco and Nintendo cooperated several times before, but are not known to have done so here. In fact, the DS software is called Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training.
• CNN Money (or Fortune Magazine, it's hard to tell) did a review for the Nintendo 3DS, to which there were glaring issues. Those involved specifically to this trope were complaining about the 3DS using cartridges, "which weren't used on since the last Game Boy" and "to add insult to injury, it comes with a stylus, which we've last seen on BlackBerry devices in the early 2000s". Both cartridges and styluses were last used on the handheld's immediate predecessor, the Nintendo DS, which was first released in late 2004 and was relevant for a good 7 or 8 years afterwards; the writer appears to have fallen victim to "The last time I saw cartridges/styluses was on the now-dead Game Boy Advance/in the early 2000s, therefore they no longer exist" syndrome. Otherwise, the reviewer's credibility for reviewing the device was he was a "hardcore gamer that grew up on Halo". Apple's iPod, iPad, and iPhone were also seen as direct competition; they are technically capable of playing video games, but aren't marketed as portable gaming consoles.
• Kirby:
  • This article for Kirby's Return to Dream Land describes Kirby as "everyone's favorite ghost". The British magazine N-Force also described Kirby as a "chubby little ghost" in their preview of Kirby's Adventure.
  • One of Kirby's abilities is 'Sword', which gives him a hat that looks similar to Link's hat. For this reason, the Italian Official Nintendo Magazine kept calling it "Kirby wearing a Link disguise". It doesn't help that, when Kirby actually eats Link, the weapon he gets is not the sword but either the Boomerang (in the original) or the Bow (in later games).
  • British publication "Retro Gamer" once referred to Kirby as "The adorable pink puffball from the Mario series". While it was likely a simple mistake, since Retro Gamer is a knowledgeable publication that regularly goes in-depth about Kirby, it's still rather baffling.
  • The official Prima strategy guide for Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards has a description that claims 02 is a "benevolent creature" who "rarely presents any trouble in the cloud levels of Shiver Star." This is wrong because 02 is not only not a nice guy, it's actually the True Final Boss of the game, and doesn't appear on Shiver Star at all. It's fought on Dark Star, which isn't even mentioned in the guide.
  • BradyGames' guide was more competent, but still slipped up occasionally: They referred to HR-H as HR-E, misnamed the actual HR-E as HR-V, and repeatedly got Shotzo mixed up with Wall-Shotzo (for the record, the latter enemy only appears in one area of stage 2-4).
  • Many ads for Kirby 64 claimed Kirby has to collect 100 shards. There are only 72 in-game (three in each of the 22 stages and one from each of the 6 bosses), or 74 counting the two Kirby and Ribbon had in the intro. The Virtual Console blurb also describes the Dark Matter as a "new enemy" when they were already the villains in two games prior.
• This review of Miitopia features a screenshot from Tomodachi Life depicting two Miis getting married, which is not a feature in the former game.
• This promotional image for third-party Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons features an image of the controllers being used to play Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, then lists off games that the Joy-Cons can be used to play, namely Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Ninjala, each with an accompanying screenshot. Trouble is, only the Mario Kart image is correctly labeled; both other screenshots actually come from Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled. Additionally, the top right screenshot is actually from the mobile game Mario Kart Tour, not 8 Deluxe.
  • This Amazon listing for the same controllers includes promotional artwork from several Mario Kart games that were not released for the Switch, namely Wii, 7 for the Nintendo 3DS, the original 8 for the Wii U, and the aforementioned Tour, in addition to also featuring a screenshot from Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
• An official Nintendo-themed sticker book featuring stickers based on Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Splatoon claims that Callie and Marie's "famous catchphrase" is "Don't get cooked — stay off the hook!" This is the Signing Off Catchphrase of Pearl and Marina from Splatoon 2, who form a pop duo named Off the Hook, hence the phrasing — the Squid Sisters' catchphrase is "Stay fresh!" The book was released after Splatoon 2 came out, but Production Lead Time meant the rest of the book draws its content primarily from the original Splatoon (in fact, the page in question refers to Callie and Marie hosting the Inkopolis News show, which they only do in Splatoon 1), making this lone reference to the sequel stand out even more.