Trivia: There is a Dry version of Bowser called Dry Bowser. He first appears in New Super Mario Bros. In the original Super Mario Bros. 3, Dry Bones was an edit of a normal Koopa Troopa sprite.

But gamers will probably remember Atkin best at the voice of the vile King Koopa in a number of Super Mario animated shows that ran in the 80’s and early 90’s.

An early idea was for Yoshi to be a tame Koopa Troopa. Eventually he morphed into a dinosaur, because the shape of a dinosaur’s body meshed better with Mario’s sprite.

Ah, Yoshi's Island. The first Super NES platformer to utilize the FX chip. Sure, it could do polygons for games like Star Fox, but the chip also pushed some mean sprite scaling and rotation ...