>>11859228
During the gamecube era Nintendo was actually having a bit of an audience problem. Kids were growing up and they were trying to actually appear more mature, you can see that shift in their print ads out in the west. The tribal tat on the GBA is on an ad where Mario himself is tatted up. It took until the Wii for Nintendo to embrace the "kiddy company" look.

Do you think Mario still has the tattoo?

>>713219173
>pure
nigga they are NOT
REAL
They can have a tattoo one day and no tattoo the next if their designers feel like it
they might as well be temp tats as far as anyone is realistically expected to care