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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Mario Party: Island Tour was released in Japan four months after its North American release. During this time, adjustments were made to the box art: some characters were slightly repositioned, and Rosalina was erased.
Top left: Napoleon Mario from the box of a Nintendo Hanafuda card deck.
Top right: the original painting of Napoleon Bonaparte on which the Mario drawing is based.
Bottom: original Nintendo headquarters plaque from 1889. The first deck of Hanafuda cards produced and trademarked by Nintendo was called the Napoleon deck (seen inside the left round seal), which the Mario picture is a reference to.
Unlicensed Mario minifigures.
In Super Mario Galaxy, if Fire Mario stuns a Li’l Cinder and then hits the place where it fell into the lava with a fireball, an explosion will be created in midair. The explosion will sustain itself infinitely.
Professor E. Gadd leaves Mario and Luigi with a final message in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.
As can be seen in official art released around 1981, Mario was originally intended to be balding.
In Super Mario World, there is a glitch that can be seen simply by entering Vanilla Dome 1 and waiting. A Spike Top will approach Mario from the right. Dodging it and allowing it to touch the left side of the screen will result in it becoming stuck between the ground and the edge of the level in an endless loop.
Mario exorcises a demon from Baby Luigi’s body in a Wario’s Woods manga.
Baby Peach without her pacifier.
Segment from Official Nintendo Magazine where Pokeys in Super Mario 64 are referred to as Pookies.
