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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Original illustrations of Mario and Toad eating ice cream from a 1993 Super Mario All-Stars activity book from Japan.
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1996 print ad for programming positions at Nintendo. The ad includes an original render of Mario in the Super Mario 64 style that was never used in any other official material.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: Video Games (Germany), Issue 96/05, 1996
Promotional Super Mario Kart card from Japan, featuring original artwork.
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Promotional glass depicting a water level from Super Mario Bros., released in 2015 for the game’s 30th anniversary in Japan.
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Original Super Mario Bros. illustrations found in a 1985 Famicom picture book from Japan.
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Top left: in Tall, Tall Mountain in Super Mario 64, there is a chance that one of the Goombas near the beginning of the course will become stuck at the edge of the water in an animation loop consisting of short hops. The Goomba is unable to break free from this loop and continue hopping indefinitely.
Top right: if Mario punches the Goomba in this state, instead of entering its hurt animation and then releasing a coin, the Goomba will simply disappear.
Bottom: this is due to the water of the river clipping slightly into the ground (note the triangle cutting into the riverbank) in such a way that it creates a small area where the Goomba constantly oscillates between being in water and on ground, resulting in the nonstandard behaviors.
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Promotional artwork for Art Academy: Atelier for Wii U, featuring Mario and Luigi. The drawing of Mario is based on official artwork for Super Mario Sunshine, while Luigi is traced from artwork for Mario Party DS.
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Mario’s behavior on platforms moving downward off-screen in Super Mario Bros. and in the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 (known internationally as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels) has been reversed in these games’ respective remakes in Super Mario All-Stars.
Top left: in the original Super Mario Bros., Mario dies when carried downward off-screen by a moving platform.
Top right: in the original Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Mario wraps around and falls from the top of the screen in that scenario.
Bottom left: however, in the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros., Mario wraps around instead.
Bottom right: conversely, in the Super Mario All-Stars version of the Lost Levels, he dies instead. The reason why the behaviors were swapped is unknown.
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Officially licensed 1991 set of Mario dominoes from the Netherlands. For unknown reasons, instead of using default official artwork of these characters, Luigi is depicted on a motorcycle and Bowser is holding a key.
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A 1992 French documentary about Nintendo contained archive footage of the development process of Super Mario Bros. 3. Here, the developer is seen using the Nintendo-internal level editor on what appears to be an early version of Level 7-Airship with a different palette. The bottom footage shows a debug function within gameplay where Mario is able to move freely through space without collision.
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