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 sketch for Dr. Mario on the NES from early in development, before the decision was made to use Mario as the main character.
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The data for Mario Kart DS contains several unused early versions of the Waluigi Pinball track. While these are mainly the same save for missing textures, they have a completely different animation inside the launcher that catapults the drivers across the track near the starting line. Here is a looping animation of the inside of the unused Waluigi Pinball launcher.
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All animated segments of Scientist Mario from the Japanese commercial for the Super Game Boy, which served as the source for the scientist outfit in Super Mario Odyssey (bottom).
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Top: in Super Mario 64, normally, whenever a text box appears on screen, it freezes the movement of non-Mario objects as long as it is displayed. In particular, coins stop spinning; shown with the coin to the right of the sign.
Bottom: however, when grabbing the Ukiki on top of Tall, Tall Mountain, the coins in the background do not stop spinning. This is in fact the only text box in the game to not freeze time for objects in this manner, as it uses slightly different code to be displayed than any other text box.
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A rock remix of the Rainbow Road music track from Mario Kart 64, exclusive to the F-Zero X Expansion Kit, an expansion disk for F-Zero X for the Japan-only Nintendo 64DD add-on.
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Complete set of officially licensed Super Mario Bros. collectible Pepsi bottle caps, from Japan.
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Ending from the British commercial for Super Mario Kart. The announcer asks “Will you ever reach the end?” and Mario bursts out of the background, shaking his head to mean that the end will never be reached.
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Outside and inside of Super Mario Home & Party, a small store selling Mario-themed merchandise which was set up temporarily in 2018 inside the Shibuya Loft mall in Tokyo, Japan. Note the Mario and Luigi figurines inserted between the Piranha Plant slippers in the bottom right photo.
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In the Super Mario Maker games, if a Bullet Bill Blaster is put inside a Lakitu’s Cloud in the New Super Mario Bros. U style, it will follow Mario closely so that Mario can repeatedly wall-jump off of it, allowing him to cross arbitrarily wide gaps using this method (top).
However, if a Muncher is put on top of the Bullet Bill Blaster, it will change its behavior to no longer follow Mario in the same manner, making it impossible to wall-jump off of it repeatedly (bottom).
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