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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Australian print ad for Donkey Kong Country. Note that the game only has 40 levels, not over 100 as the ad claims.
Comparison between the original Japanese box art for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and the North American version. For the North American audience, Donkey Kong’s right leg has been lowered.
Concept art for the Donkey Kong arcade.
Images of the Tiki Tak Tribe that appear whenever you lose a life in Donkey Kong Country Returns.
Left: a brief view of the beta overworld of Donkey Kong Country 3 seen in the E3 1996 trailer.
Right: the same part of the overworld from the finished game. Note that Mekanos (the island in the top left of each image) seems to not contain a factory in the beta version, meaning the Mekanos world was either absent or was moved to that location from elsewhere before release.
Board layout and event backgrounds from DK’s Jungle Adventure in Mario Party.
French print ad for Donkey Kong 64.
Extremely rare renders of Lanky Kong which were never released as standalone images, existing only in select print publications that received a Donkey Kong 64 preview press kit in 2000.
In Level 5-8 of Donkey Kong Country Returns, Donkey Kong is being chased through the level by an avalanche of small spider-like enemies. Zooming in on the enemies, we can see that they have cartoonish eyes that are very hard to see during normal gameplay.
