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Nintendo discusses where the idea of messing with Luigi's mustache came from in Dream Team
Coming from an MTV interview with Mr. Kubota and Mr. Ohtani...
"So, I don’t know if you guys do this in the U.S., but in Japan, I remember as a child that we would kind of play pranks on my sleeping dad by messing with his face, touching his whiskers just a little bit to see just how much we could get away with before he started to stir. I thought this was already a little bit of a game, maybe we could transpose this gameplay element into 'Mario & Luigi' as an interesting experiment, so that's when I proposed it."
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"So, I don’t know if you guys do this in the U.S., but in Japan, I remember as a child that we would kind of play pranks on my sleeping dad by messing with his face, touching his whiskers just a little bit to see just how much we could get away with before he started to stir. I thought this was already a little bit of a game, maybe we could transpose this gameplay element into 'Mario & Luigi' as an interesting experiment, so that's when I proposed it."