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New Mario Party Box Art Seems to Be From a SpaghettiOs Can

Someone spotted the Mario Party: Star Rush box art on a can of pasta.

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Mario Party: Star Rush was recently announced with a bunch of new features, but there's something about it that doesn't seem very new at all: its box art.

Twitter user Starwindbliss spotted the new Mario Party's box art on a can of SpaghettiOs. Funnily enough, the Star Rush box art even has a grey-and-white checkered background, which is commonly shows up in Photoshop when a background is transparent. You can see the comparison shot for yourself below.

Mario Party: Star Rush features simultaneous dice-rolling and moving, so perhaps someone at Nintendo thought the box art should adorn two different products simultaneously?

The last 3DS Mario Party game was Island Tour, and it received a score of 7 in GameSpot's review. Critic Heidi Kemps concluded, "It's not a perfect party by any means, but some good design considerations, better-than-average variety, and always-enjoyable Mario thematics put Mario Party: Island Tour a few notches above your average video game bash-in-a-box."

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DAMN!!!! Nintendo...say it ain't so lol

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LMAO holy hell, that is one of the laziest things I have ever seen from Nintendo.

Here's to hoping that this isn't the final box-art.

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I hope she made loadsa spaghetti

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MarioSpaghettiOs.png Save, Export, Publish. Now to sit back and relax.

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That checkered background wouldn't appear on the boxart if you place a png on an empty game box and export it.

It must be a placeholder, the star is too small and it's not being focussed on, but it's in the title so logically they would make a cover art that would draw your eye to that star.

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Uh oh....

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Never tasted spaghettios

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Well, this right here sums up modern day Nintendo imo.

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oh o spaghettios

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I believe thats placeholder art, not the official art.

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@iandizion713: It probably will be now after Nintendo has been caught redhanded in the cheapskate, half-*ssed act.

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@amaneuvering: Nintendo is famous for rehash placeholder art, so dont really matter.

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