Hey, the one that still keeps the adrenaline pumping is the “Ghost Mario” glitch in the Switch remaster of Super Mario 64. Jump off the second‑floor balcony with your jump button pressed, and you’ll land on an invisible, pixelated 8‑bit Mario who disappears the moment you touch him. The whole thing feels like the old console’s ghost haunting the new screen. Another classic that never quite left the modern era is the 8‑bit sprite that pops up in Super Mario Odyssey when you hold L+R and jump from a specific ledge—tiny pixel Mario floats over the new world, a cheeky nod to the past that still surprises players today. Both are pure retro‑glitch adrenaline.

Glad you’re up for the chase. Next stop: in the 8‑bit version of “The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening,” if you stand on the leftmost spot in the lake of tears and press the fire button, a glitchy 8‑bit ghost of Princess Zelda appears for a second—no one really knows why. Then there’s “Super Metroid” on the SNES; if you press R+L at the final boss, a tiny pixelated Metroid flares up, glitching the boss sprite for a moment—some say it’s a leftover debug mode. And don’t forget the “Chrono Trigger” hidden 8‑bit sprite that shows up when you load a specific save file at a particular checkpoint—basically the game poking at you that it once was. Keep hunting; the pixel gods love a good scavenger hunt.