On thing that I always found interesting was from A Link to the Past on, Mario or at least something from a Mario game, often sneaks into a Zelda game. Some of these cameos are obvious, some aren't unless you're looking, Much like in Pixar movies, the Pizza Planet truck is in all of them and character from other movies show up. Anyone find Lotso in Up?
But Nintendo characters love to pop up in each others games. Did anyone find Mr. Game and Watch in Donkey Kong Country Returns?
But Mario has made several cameos in Zelda games:
Link to the Past: Mario appears in pictures on the walls of houses and striking them nets you a rupee
Link's Awakening:
Marin's Brother (?) Tarin bears a striking resemblence to Mario with his big nose and mustache. Plus he goes into the woods looking for mushrooms and gets turned into a crazy racoon. Mario, drugs are bad mkay? Also Wart, the main foe from SMB2 makes a cameo as the Frog King who teaches you a song. Besides Mario Kirby and Dr. Wright from the SNES SimCity (you know the one not ruined by DRM) also appear. I didn't have a sprite of it but there's a man in green on top of Tal Tal Heights who has pet chickens who looks like Luigi.
Ocarina of Time: Fairly well known but also easy to miss as there's only one shot to see it. When Link visits young Zelda in the castle courtyard, there's a window to your right if you got into first person and fiddle with the camera you can see pictures of Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi and Bowser. This is also in the 3DS remake but a different Mario image.
Majora's Mask: The mask salesman has a Mario mask on the back of his pack.
Twilight Princess: One of the canon operators has a bullet bill tatoo.
That's all I can think of off hand. Can't remember if any Mario cameos showed up in the Toon Link installments. Feel free to add to this list.
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