A Super Mario variety blog.
Screenshots, photos, sprites, gifs, scans and more from all around the world of Super Mario Bros.
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Comic advertising Game Boy accessories, from the British Club Nintendo magazine. Note the blue L on Luigi’s cap. Giving Luigi’s emblem a nonstandard color appears to be common between Club Nintendo magazines, as the German one made it red instead.
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In Super Mario Bros., beating World 8-4 unlocks a harder mode where, among other changes, Goombas are replaced with Buzzy Beetles. In that mode, there are many opportunities to jump onto a Buzzy Beetle when it is above a bottomless pit, as shown in the footage. Instead of falling, the Buzzy Beetle’s shell will be suspended in midair. If it is allowed to re-emerge, the Buzzy Beetle will continue walking on air and through walls.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, there is an undocumented way of restoring Mario’s health. If Mario approaches the table in the middle of the Odyssey after sustaining damage, his health gauge will be refilled completely.
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Mario, Luigi and Yoshi fighting the Koopalings in the Japanese “Super Mario Sound Picture Book”.
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The data of Mario Party 6 contains a model test room consisting of three brown cars, three floating platforms and a semi-transparent wall of water in the middle of a grassy field (top). The Earth in visible in the skybox in the background. When the room is loaded, the dialogue “Gwahaha! This could actually get interesting…” appears and cannot be dismissed. Nothing in the room responds to the player’s input, with only the camera being controllable (bottom).
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Recent Nintendo games have included giant Yoshis. Top: Giant Yoshi in Donut Plains 3 (SNES) track in Mario Kart 8/Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Bottom: Giant Yoshis in Yoshi’s Stampede Final Smash in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Both images include a standard-sized Yoshi for comparison.
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Illustrations of Mario, including Mario chasing after a cow and brushing his teeth, from US patent application US20080070682A1, issued in 2006 to Nintendo for “systems and methods for providing educational games for use by young children”.
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Top: the Kongo Jungle map screen from Donkey Kong Country.
Middle: the recreation of the Kongo Jungle map screen from the World of Light mode in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Bottom: animation of the original superimposed over the recreation. The mountain in the middle of the recreation has been added to more organically connect the two halves of the screen and is not present in the original.
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