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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Print advertisement for Mario Party 2.
The Japanese version of the ending cutscene of Western Land in Mario Party 2 plays out differently from the international version. While in all other versions, the player character and Bowser shoot each other with corks that can be seen flying through the air, the projectiles in the Japanese version are too small to be visible, which implies that the characters are using conventional bullets instead. (Source)
In Mario Party 2, Professor Fungi, the Toad in charge of the Option Lab, has a pipe in the Japanese version of the game (top). In all other versions, the pipe has been removed (bottom).
Mario’s face textures for all his different expressions in Mario Party 2.
In the Bumper Balls minigame in Mario Party 2, a Fly Guy is encased in ice on top of a mountain. The Fly Guy is not actually a model, but a 2D sprite. Below is the sprite extracted from the game’s files.
Characters leaving the camera’s field of view and ceasing to be rendered piece by piece in Mario Party 2.
In the Present Room in Mario Party 4, the description of Daisy’s side table warns not to peek in her journal. Zooming in reveals that her journal is actually a Japanese copy of Mario Party 2.
From the ending of Mario Party 2.
Every sprite of a character in a Mario Party game on the Nintendo 64 is rendered from a model, but high-resolution images of these models are usually not released as official art. Here we can see a sprite of Peach from Mario Party 2 on the left and the source image on the right, found in a “behind the scenes” section of a Japanese guide.
Default images for searching for games and channels on the official Twitch app for the PlayStation Vita. Why pictures of Sony games were not chosen instead is unknown.
