A Super Mario variety blog.
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Top: illustration found in a 1993 issue of the Chilean Club Nintendo magazine.
Bottom: the illustration is notable as it is a colored version of this size comparison chart found in the Nintendo Character Manual, also published in 1993. Unlike the Club Nintendo illustration, the manual’s image is in black and white. The illustration implies a full colored version of the size chart exists; it is possible that the Club Nintendo staff received a more detailed version of the manual than the one available to the public.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source: 1: Club Nintendo (Chile), Issue 5, 1993; 2
Top: 1993 Super Mario All-Stars phone card from Japan.
Bottom: Compared to the game’s title screen, which the phone card is based on, the illustration looks a lot more in line with the characters’ modern appearance despite being released in the same year.
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There are two Donkey Kong games dated around the release of the NES that seem to have been cancelled quietly, with only few select publications mentioning them before they were dropped entirely.
Top: “Return of Donkey Kong” from a Swedish NES catalog.
Bottom: “Donkey Kong IV” from the British Mean Machines magazine.
Note: it is also possible that they are simply different names for the same game; however, the catalog lists it as being for the NES while the magazine mentions it being an arcade machine, so if it was a single game, it would have been planned to be released on multiple platforms.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source: 1, 2: Mean Machines (UK), Issue 13, 1991
Taiwanese 16-in-1 game cartridge for the Atari 2600, featuring original artwork of Mario balancing on a stack of sweating Goombas.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source: twitter.com user “AtariSpot”
Nintendo Power’s 2001 April Fools’ joke article, purporting to present a scientific project to make Warp Pipes from the Mario franchise real.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source: Nintendo Power (US), Issue 143, 2001
Top: In the battles against Bowser in Super Mario Odyssey, whenever Bowser falls back into the arena after being hit, his shell will wobble, nearly detaching itself from his body before settling. Using Snapshot Mode, we can see that Bowser’s suit covers his back in places normally obscured by the shell.
Bottom: extracting Bowser’s model and removing the shell shows that his back is in fact fully modeled under the shell. His suit is discolored to simulate a shadow in that area.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: 1: myself, Super Mario Odyssey (Switch) on original hardware, 2
