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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Concept art for the Barrel Cannon Canyon stage in Donkey Kong Country, from a point in development where it was called “Jungle Location 2″. Notably, in the finished game, this is the third jungle-themed stage (and the fifth stage in the Kongo Jungle area), meaning it was moved around from its intended position at some point.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: Video Games (Germany), Issue 13/95, 1995
Cover artwork from a Japanese Super Mario Bros 3 guide. Note Peach’s unique hairstyle.
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Concept art for a Super Mario Bros. Super Show PSA from the DIC Entertainment archives. This was created before the designs for the characters were finalized and ended up not being used.
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The “Results” theme from the Nintendo Powerfest ‘94 cartridge, which remixes Princess Peach’s theme from the original Super Mario Bros. The Nintendo Powerfest ‘94 was a video game competition where players competed for the high score in three games (Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Super Mario Kart and Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball) on a specialized cartridge that held versions of these games that would keep the individual scores and then tally them together. The menus on the cartridge included original music such as this track.
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Footage of unique Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong mascot costumes used at the Nintendo SpaceWorld 1999 trade show.
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Top: unused status effect icon found in the data of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, depicting a sad face.
Bottom: functionality involving this icon is still present, although no items activate it. It was intended to be used for an attack-lowering status effect, shown here by modifying the code.
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Licensed Super Mario Bros. stickers from Korea featuring unique illustrations of the game’s enemies in the style of the game’s original Japanese box art.
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Cover of a 1983 issue of TV Gamer magazine, featuring Donkey Kong.
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In Yoshi’s Island, if Yoshi jumps up and down on the Stretch Shy Guy in Level 3-3 while aiming an egg, some of the jumps have the chance to go extremely high, as shown in the footage.
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Photos from the opening ceremony for Marios Gata (”Mario’s Street”), a street in Kungsbacka, Sweden named after Mario due to housing the headquarters of Bergsala AB, Nintendo’s Swedish distributor; seen in Edge Magazine.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: Edge (UK), Issue 75, 1999
