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Epona’s Origins: The Horse Mario Never Got

Distressed Retro Replay collage reading Epona Changed Games, with an original chestnut horse illustration, saddle, controller and countryside.

Before Epona carried Link across Hyrule, Nintendo had talked about giving Mario a horse in Super Mario 64. Picture that for a moment: the plumber, the cap, the overalls, and a horse waiting outside Peach’s castle. Yoshi would have had questions. It never happened. But Yoshiaki Koizumi hadn’t lost interest in the idea, and when he worked on Ocarina of Time, he was determined to make horse riding happen there. Mario went… Read more