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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Ending from the British commercial for Super Mario Kart. The announcer asks “Will you ever reach the end?” and Mario bursts out of the background, shaking his head to mean that the end will never be reached.
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Outside and inside of Super Mario Home & Party, a small store selling Mario-themed merchandise which was set up temporarily in 2018 inside the Shibuya Loft mall in Tokyo, Japan. Note the Mario and Luigi figurines inserted between the Piranha Plant slippers in the bottom right photo.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, an easy way to skip most of Episode 5 of Pinna Park (”The Runaway Ferris Wheel”) exists. Simply make your way to the platform above the pirate ships and then use the Hover Nozzle to hover to the left side of the top of the ferris wheel in the manner depicted. For an unknown reason, the ferris wheel does not have collision in that spot (despite having collision in the middle and on the right side), allowing Mario to hover through without stopping him. This skips the climb to the top of the ferris wheel via the backside of the structure.
In Paper Mario: Sticker Star, using the Bowling Ball sticker in the Gooper Blooper boss battle will cause the game to crash when the bowling ball collides with the boss’s face, exiting back to the Nintendo 3DS main menu.
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In Super Mario Land 2, the hitbox of Fire Mario’s fireballs loops over to the other side of the screen for one frame after leaving the screen. If an enemy is in a specific spot just outside the screen in the opposite direction from where Mario shot the fireball on that frame, the enemy will be defeated.
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Promotional Super Mario Bros. phone card from Japan, featuring a size chart of the game’s characters. Notably, this size chart differentiates between Small Mario (to the left of Peach) and Super Mario (to the right of Peach), correctly sizing them relative to Peach based on the heights of their sprites.
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Blooper, the first boss of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, has a unique dizzy animation that is very rare to encounter. It is not possible to buy any items that cause the dizzy status effect on enemies at this point in the game; the only way this can be seen is if the battle randomly loads with Shy Guys in the audience and one of the Shy Guys performs an event where he runs backstage and drops a bucket on the Blooper, which has a very low chance of occurring.
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In Super Mario Bros., the first lift platform in World 6-3 has the unique property that it will increase its vertical range indefinitely while it is on screen; different from any other such platform in the game, where the range is fixed instead. Here, Mario is positioned on the platform and after five up-down cycles, the lowest point of its range reaches below the bottom of the screen, causing Mario to die.
Illustration from the cover of a Japanese official guide for Super Mario Maker. The guide mainly provides tips for course creation, with details on the movement and interaction of various elements.
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In Mario Kart Wii, some flowers on the left side of the road on the Mushroom Gorge track change colors depending on whether the game is in single-player or multiplayer mode.
Top: The flowers to the top left of Mario are pink.
Bottom: The same flowers (to the top left of Mario and the immediate left of Luigi) are now orange.
This is the only instance of any decorative element changing in this manner between modes in the game.
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