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Here is a list of all the date-specific messages that appeared in the Hotel Mario game:

Happy New Year
Happy Valentines Day
Do Not Forget Mothers Day
Schools Almost Out
Happy Fathers Day
Happy Fourth Of July
Ready To Go Back To School
BOOOOOOOOO
Happy Turkey Day Gobble Gobble
Happy Holidays
Here We Go

and, my favorite:

Its Hollies Birthday

when do they appear? This is brand new information to me....

Isn't that something!! Tell me Kao, does this appear on the menu screen according to the calendar date of your CD-i player? I'll have to try this out

Oh, really? This is good, then!

If you remember, every time you select a level in Hotel Mario it would show a black screen and then display something like, "Morton Koopa and his creepy pals are waiting for your arival!" And then a couple seconds later it would display one of the above messages based on your CD-I player clock, with "Here We Go" being the default one.

do you also know the actual dates to let these messages appear?

I guess on the day they represent, perhaps the day before for Fathers and Mothers day!!

Happy New Year 1st January
Happy Valentines Day I never remember this one myself!
Do Not Forget Mothers Day Neither this one!
Schools Almost Out American school holidays at a guess!
Happy Fathers Day I'm really bad with dates!
Happy Fourth Of July Take a wild guess!
Ready To Go Back To School Another one for Americans
BOOOOOOOOO Has to be Halloween!
Happy Turkey Day Gobble Gobble Hotel Mario was developed in America after all so here's one for Thanks Giving
Happy Holidays During the summer vacation perhaps?
Here We Go standard message on every other day of the year

Its Hollies Birthday Who's Hollie? Time to check Hotel Marios credits

You've pretty much got it, Devin! Allow me to go through these just once more because I think I might be able to ellaborate in a couple areas.

Happy New Year January 1st
Happy Valentines Day 14th of February
Do Not Forget Mothers Day 2nd or 3rd Sunday of May
Schools Almost Out End of May
Happy Fathers Day 2nd or 3rd Sunday of June
Happy Fourth Of July July 4th, silly!
Ready To Go Back To School End of August
BOOOOOOOOO October 31st
Happy Turkey Day Gobble Gobble 4th Thursday of November
Happy Holidays From the middle of December to January 1st
Here We Go Default
Its Hollies Birthday Sometime between New Years and Valentines Day. Refers to Hollie S. Lohff, the play consultant on this game.

These are the dates specified in the US version of the game. I'm not sure if they localized these dates when they released it outside of the US.

Very interesting, thanks for the full list Kao!!

I'll have to add this to the Hotel Mario Game Page, some great trivia.

I guess Hollie S. Lohff must have been a hottie around the office

I'll have to check on the European version to see if any alterations were made!!

Very cool! Let us know if you find anything.

Heh... I remember playing this game close to Christmas many years ago and I got this message. When my mother saw the message "Happy Holidays" she completely freaked out! This was before we had a modern computer with an internal clock mind you, so the idea that the CD-I "knew" what day it was really scared her. She even called tech support to find out what was going on!

maybe 5th November will bring something up for the UK release

I think these still need to be added to the gamepage. Anyone ever tried them out...?