SpindaMH

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I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form

Donkey Kong 64 makes extremely efficient usage of in-engine coloration to cut down on the number of textures. Entire vibrant and colorful areas are created at runtime from a single texture just by artfully tinting it.

The colorful cliffs in Jungle Japes are just a vertex coloration map being applied to a single 128x128 pixel texture. 
Source: DonkViewer by Ballaam, https://theballaam96.github.io/DonkViewer, https://noclip.website/

Normally, Mario Party games give all characters the same hitbox for fairness. However, Bowser Toss in Mario Party 3 gives an advantage to taller characters even with identical inputs. Since no minigames favor shorter characters, Waluigi is the objectively superior character in Mario Party 3.