i drew baseball rosa for a mario sports collab on twitter by @johnzu_ on twitter, the collab can be viewed here ^-^ 🩵✨⚾️
https://twitter.com/johnzu_/status/1785399512724574358/photo/1
The Home Field Glider from Mario Kart Tour has Mario and Wario's names on the scoreboard.
Whether intentional or by lucky accident, this lines up well with how the Baseball games liked to emphasize the rivalry between these two, in the opening cutscenes.
Top: a pre-release screenshot of Mario Superstar Baseball, published on the IGN gaming news website in 2005 (note the IGN logo in the bottom right).
Bottom: in the game, the preview image for Mario Stadium uses that exact screenshot, including even part of the IGN logo, seen overlapping Mario's shoe.
This indicates that the developers, despite having full access to the game's code and being able to take any kind of preview screenshot they could want without any restrictions, instead went online and took a screenshot from a gaming journalism website without even editing out the logo.
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I just saw an article of a viable insider/leaker saying there’s a high chance there’ll be a new Mario Baseball game this year and if that’s true I will absolutely flip my shit