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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Photo of Mario inside a reduced-gravity aircraft, usually used to train astronauts in a low- or zero-gravity environment, taken as part of a Super Mario Galaxy promotional event.
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Full set of officially licensed Super Mario Kart finger puppets from Japan.
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Near the beginning part of Luigi’s Mansion 3, a mission involves escorting Professor E. Gadd to the basement. If Luigi exits the elevator as the doors are closing, E. Gadd will become stuck on an invisible wall and remain inside the elevator until the doors close completely. A few seconds after this, he will suddenly respawn behind Luigi.
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All animated scenes featuring Mario from the French commercial for Top Gun: The Second Mission for the NES. During the early 1990s, Nintendo of France consistently commissioned animation of Mario to promote non-Mario games.
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Artwork from a 1991 Super Mario World poster from Japan. Note that this depicts Green Baby Yoshi (to the left of Mario and Yoshi), who technically only appears for a few seconds in the game’s ending.
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Unused animation found in the data of Donkey Kong 64. This was used in an early build of the game as a “new move learned” animation in the overworld; it became unused as those scenes were all relegated to inside Cranky’s Lab. The data related to the deformation of the model has been deleted; the only remaining part is the data regarding the position and rotation of the model in space, as well as the camera angle and movement.
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Officially licensed 1988 Mario slippers. This is a rare instance of Mario’s cap being depicted with nonstandard text after the introduction of the “M” emblem cap in 1985.
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The Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. Deluxe handles Mario’s power-up state differently from the international versions. While in those, Mario is reset to Small Mario every time a save file is reloaded, in the Japanese version, Mario keeps the power-up he had when the game was saved.
This leads to a glitch where saving on a specific frame of Mario’s damage animation after being hit as Fire Mario, then quitting and reloading, results in the game loading an “in-between” state that appears as Small Fire Mario (top). Small Fire Mario can still shoot fire, although it comes out of the space above him as though he was regular Fire Mario. Collecting any power-up in this state turns him into regular Fire Mario (bottom left) while taking any damage kills him (bottom right).
Artwork featuring mostly Mario characters, with some characters from other games, from the Chilean Club Nintendo magazine. While the poses are taken from official artwork for various Mario games, the coloring and shading are original.
Main Blog | Twitter | Source: Club Nintendo (Chile), Issue 20, 1994
