“It’s Mario Time!”

[Leynos]

firebush03 said:

According to Motoi Okamoto, Mini-Game Director for Super Mario 64 DS, Shigeru Miyamoto would start midnight crunch sessions for the game's development by walking into the office and announcing "It's Mario time." pic.twitter.com/2d5AsuwetI

— Supper Mario Broth (@MarioBrothBlog) February 1, 2026

(BTW Yes, this is real… well, as far as I’m aware. Supper Mario Broth report actual recountings from Nintendo employees.)

I told this before. Miyamoto is a strange dude. Back when my friend worked at R*  and R* was giving Iwata and Shiggy a tour of the NY office as I believe it was at the time they were working on China Town on DS in the morning. My friend pulled an all nighter and fell asleep at his desk. Miyamoto sees a worker asleep and starts screaming and yelling. Waking my friend up and Iwata had to calm him down.