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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One of the bonus rooms in Chapter 7-1 of Super Paper Mario contains a pipe that releases Squog enemies. If the Pixl Boomer is placed onto the pipe and detonated at the moment a new Squog is released, the Squog, instead of being defeated, will flip upside-down and continue moving backwards. It will also shoot projectiles out of its back side.
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In the Chocolate Secret level in Super Mario World, one particular Chargin’ Chuck* can kick footballs through walls.
*The football-kicking variety of Chargin’ Chuck is called “Passin’ Chuck” in the Nintendo Power Mario Mania Player’s Guide.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: Super Mario World, recorded by me in SNES emulator
A 1994 Spanish game show featured a challenge where a contestant was to use an oxy-fuel cutter to sever a metal pipe to free a captive woman dressed as Princess Daisy while a man in a Mario mascot costume watched. Here, you can see Daisy in a cage with Mario waiting outside. This segment was sponsored by Nintendo of Spain to promote Super Mario Land, hence the choice of Princess Daisy instead of Peach.
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1997 print ad for Silicon Graphics computer workstations, featuring Wing Mario from Super Mario 64. Silicon Graphics owns MIPS Technologies, the company that produced the MIPS R4300i microprocessor used in the Nintendo 64. The rabbit character MIPS from Super Mario 64 is named after that processor.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: Next Generation (US), Issue 29, 1997
Top: extremely rare prototype footage of Super Mario Bros. 3 showing an early version of World 1-3. Note how the design differs from the finished version, especially by the addition of a tall white block to the right of the brick structure.
Bottom: the same segment of World 1-3 from the release version of the game, for comparison.
