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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Illustrations of Mario, including Mario chasing after a cow and brushing his teeth, from US patent application US20080070682A1, issued in 2006 to Nintendo for “systems and methods for providing educational games for use by young children”.
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The cover for the Japanese “Super Mario Wisdom Games Picture Book 4: Larry’s Mischief”. Note Luigi in a ghost costume chasing Larry in the background.
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Brazilian print ad for Mario Golf: Advance Tour.
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Super Mario Odyssey, like the vast majority of 3D video games, displays low-polygon models for certain features of the environment when the camera is far enough away to conserve processing power. When the camera gets closer, the model is replaced with a high-resolution model. However, these are usually chosen to resemble each other as much as possible from a distance, which includes being the same color. In New Donk City, some objects are a different color from a distance than they are close-up; the most striking example being the building shown in this footage. When Mario crosses a certain threshold in the Mayor Pauline Commemorative Park, the building’s windows drastically change color.
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In Super Mario Bros. 2, it is possible to fly extra fast on a flying carpet in Level 1-2 by defeating the Pidgit on the first flying carpet that appears, going left to cause a second Pidgit to spawn, defeating that Pidgit and then hopping back onto the first carpet.
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Animation playing during the game transfer process on a Famicom Disk Writer kiosk, a service offered by Nintendo in Japan allowing players to copy exclusive versions of Famicom games to rewritable disks. The animation features unique sprites of Mario and Luigi pointing at each other.
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Unused “Self-Replenishing Item Box” switch e-Card effect in Super Mario Advance 4. Scanning this unreleased e-Card would make a Super Mario World-style item box appear on the top of the screen. Whenever Mario and Luigi lose a power-up, the item box dispenses the power-up it currently displays and is automatically refilled with another power-up chosen at random; the power-ups include even the rare Frog Suit, Tanooki Suit and Hammer Suit.
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The European version of Super Paper Mario contains a glitch where if the player enters all unlocked rooms in Chapter 2-2 and returns to Mimi without getting the key to progress to the final, locked room, the game will freeze upon talking to Mimi (note the movement of the flying Pixls), and the console needs to be restarted. Nintendo recalled many copies of the game upon discovering the glitch after release to replace them with an updated version, so this glitch can mostly be found in Super Paper Mario discs purchased in 2007.
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