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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Commemorative plate available to visitors of the official Mario café that was open for a limited time in Tokyo in 2015, featuring the café’s slogan, “No Music, No Life”.
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Officially licensed Warp Pipe towel with a Piranha Plant bag from Japan. When folded up, the towel is stored in the bag.
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A full view of the front and back of Creepy Castle from Donkey Kong 64, seen using a model editor. In-game, the level can never be seen in full due to an atmospheric darkness effect resulting in very low visibility; even if the effect was absent, the camera cannot be zoomed out far enough to see any major part of the castle at once. Even the Nintendo Power and Prima official guides for the game never show the castle in full, instead using custom-drawn maps.
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Unused early Wario animations found in the data of Wario: Master of Disguise. These use prerendered frames of a 3D model, similar to Donkey Kong Country series sprites; while the finished game switched to traditional pixel art 2D sprites.
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Concept art for Super Mario Strikers.
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A promotional campaign for Mario Super Sluggers featured a series of short videos about each of the playable characters. Toadsworth’s video is particularly bizarre, consisting of a man in what appears to be a science classroom performing baseball hand signals while lyrics about Toadsworth are displayed as captions. The video ends with a still frame of the man and the word “FRESH” flashing. Note that the famous Konami Code (Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start), used in many video games by Konami and other companies, is written on the chalkboard in the background.
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Concept art for the design of Mamu from The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening for the Nintendo Switch; the top one being the one used in the final game while the bottom being an early, less stylized version. Mamu is the same character as Wart, the final boss of Super Mario Bros. 2, only using his original Japanese name.
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