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Video game fans love seeing “behind the curtains” on their favourite projects, whether it’s perusing cut content or getting a glimpse at cancelled projects. It’s why accounts like Super Mario Broth are so popular they share histories and facts that often go unseen. It’s also why Mario fans are now obsessed with a strange white blob known as ‘Scripulous Fingore’.
Scripulous Fingore first arrived on the scene via Cut and Obscure Video Game Content, an account reportedly dedicated to “sharing obscure facts and cut/scrapped content from video games”. But as you might guess, this account is a parody of feeds like Super Mario Broth, and one with a wicked sense of humour.
With the advent of data miners and hackers, fans are continually rediscovering classic video games, whether that’s learning about cut content or absorbing obscure details which can only be known by peeking at a game’s code. And so, when a Twitter account recently posted about a creature allegedly hiding in the files of an older Nintendo game complete with a render the claim seemed plausible.
The fake character first came to light when Cut and Obscure Video Game Content (seemingly a parody of factoid aggregator Super Mario Broth) tweeted out there was a “fully coded, unused ghost enemy” called “scripulous fingore” in the code of