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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Near the beginning of the intro to Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, Peach is seen making a shot. Even though a sound effect of her hitting the ball plays and her facial expression suggests that it flew in a high arc, watching the ball closely reveals that it doesn’t actually move from the tee, indicating that she missed the swing.
Top: the shadow Mario casts in Super Mario Sunshine is made out of flattened polygons spread across the ground. Since it is always rendered at the same resolution Mario is, it enables the shadow to remain crisp at any zoom level.
Bottom: In Super Mario Galaxy, Mario’s shadow is calculated from Mario’s model for every frame in a fixed resolution. This makes it appear pixelated when it is close to the camera.
Top: The deformation applied to Mario’s model in Super Mario 64 two frames before being squashed by a Thwomp.
Middle: One frame before being squashed by a Thwomp.
Bottom: Being squashed by a Thwomp.
Box art for Super Bros. World for the MSX home computer.
Bowser riding his horse in Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Ending of Mario’s Tennis for the Virtual Boy.
Mario performing Cyrano de Bergerac, from a set of Mario quiz cards.
In Super Mario 64, whenever Bowser explodes after being defeated, coins fly out of the explosion. However, this is a purely visual effect, as no actual coins that can be collected appear. In early beta footage, we can see Bowser’s defeat released real coins at some point in development, so this feature seemed to have been removed after the explosion animation was created.
In Luigi’s Mansion, it is possible to see the moon in some outdoor areas of the mansion. The moon is closer than it appears to be; in fact, it’s hovering slightly above the floor of the room Luigi is occupying.
On the North American box art for Mario Kart: Double Dash, the L on Luigi’s cap is mirrored.
