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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Original illustrations of Mario and Toad eating ice cream from a 1993 Super Mario All-Stars activity book from Japan.
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1996 print ad for programming positions at Nintendo. The ad includes an original render of Mario in the Super Mario 64 style that was never used in any other official material.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: Video Games (Germany), Issue 96/05, 1996
Official patterns of various Mario franchise characters and items from the instructions in the licensed 2015 Mario Aquabeads set from Japan.
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High-resolution version of the boss battle background against Baron K. Roolenstein in Donkey Kong Country 3, published by Lee Ray, one of the game’s background artists, on his personal website.
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World 1-Extra of Yoshi’s Island and its remake, Super Mario Advance 3, “Poochy Ain’t Stupid”, is a notoriously difficult autoscrolling level. There is a possibility to play it without the autoscroll, making it much easier.
Top: at the beginning of the level, there are many bat-like Fang enemies randomly flying in from the right. If Yoshi bounces off them and flutters to the top of the first wall, landing off-screen, he will skip the activation zone for the autoscroll.
Bottom: then, dropping down to the right of the wall results in the level having regular scrolling, as shown with the camera freely moving left and right to follow Yoshi.
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Promotional Super Mario Kart card from Japan, featuring original artwork.
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Top: when the Chilean Club Nintendo magazine first began publishing in 1992, the section where the editor asked for the readers to send in letters had a hand-drawn illustration of Mario holding a quill next to an inkwell.
Bottom: however, starting with 1998, to reflect the changing times and prevalent means of communication, this was replaced with a 3D render of Mario’s hands typing on a keyboard.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: Club Nintendo (Chile), Issues 1, 72 (1992, 1998)
Close-up of the rare Mario and Luigi statues from Animal Crossing for the GameCube. The regular way to obtain them is via a code distributed by Nintendo Power; however, alternate ways of obtaining them are available for those without access to the magazine. Very rarely, a villager may bury a Mario statue somewhere and post about it on the bulletin board; while the Luigi statue may be sold at Crazy Redd’s store.
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Promotional glass depicting a water level from Super Mario Bros., released in 2015 for the game’s 30th anniversary in Japan.
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1992 promotional photo of Shigeru Miyamoto and Mario, seen in the German Video Games magazine.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: Video Games (Germany), Issue 97/01, 1997
