Nintendo reused the same stock sky photo across three N64 games

A reused stock sky across Mario 64, Mario Kart 64 and Pilotwings 64 is a small archival clue about how iconic game art was assembled

In 1996, Nintendo was seemingly very fond of a single particular stock photo of the sky, so that it ended up on the cartridge artwork of three different games released in that year: Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and Pilotwings 64.
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