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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From the commercial for Donkey Kong cereal.
Unused models for Re-Koil and Army found in the code of Donkey Kong 64.
Bonus room intro screens from Donkey Kong Country 2.
Comparison between the Krocodile Kore background in the SNES version of Donkey Kong Country 2 and the Game Boy Advance version.
This picture was drawn by Shigeru Miyamoto during the design phase for Donkey Kong Country as a suggestion to the Rare development team that Donkey Kong should wear a tie in that game. The earlier Rare concept art visualized Donkey Kong without a tie.
Funky’s Rentals in Donkey Kong Country 3 on the SNES on the left and in Donkey Kong Country 3 on the Game Boy Advance on the right.
Cards featuring Eddie the Mean Old Yeti from the Donkey Kong Country cartoon in the Donkey Kong Country trading card game.
In a prototype version of Diddy Kong Pilot (an unreleased game that was reworked into Banjo-Pilot), an unfinished version of a character select screen can be seen. Unlike the other characters, Candy Kong cannot be selected, and is instead overlaid with a picture of a character that, according to sources at Rare, was named “Redneck Kong” during development.
Background renders from the Donkey Kong Country manual.
Downgraded title screen and map screen from a bootleg NES version of Donkey Kong Country 2, compared to the Japanese SNES version that the images are taken from.
