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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Luigi helping injured Galoombas* in the Japanese “Super Mario Wisdom Games Picture Book 3: Luigi’s Secret”.
*Please note that these enemies have been retroactively renamed “Galoombas” by Nintendo in 2013 and were known as simply another type of Goomba prior.
When starting up Mario Party Advance for the first time, the player is asked to fill out a passport with personal information. After the passport is complete, the Star asks an additional question that does not appear in the passport, but which is still saved to the game files. In the North American version (top), the question is “What is your silliest secret?” However, the European version (bottom) takes a sudden serious turn and instead asks players to input their single biggest secret. Why this change was made is unknown.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself (Mario Party Advance (US, EU) in GBA emulator)
In the data of Super Mario Galaxy, an unused planet called “StarManFort” can be found. Its design matches up with concept art of a fortress planet featured in the Super Mario Galaxy Prima Official Guide. Here is a comparison of the two pieces of concept art of the fortress on the left and the unused model extracted from the game, rotated into the same perspective, on the right.
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Mario Family is a Japan-only program released in 2001 for the Game Boy Color that connects to the Jaguar JN-100 sewing machine and sends it instructions to sew Mario-themed patterns. The software contains 32 patterns, most of them consisting of several colors and requiring multiple steps, where the thread must be replaced with the proper color. Wario is unique among the patterns for requiring 11 steps - the most out of all - and needing an extra step specifically to sew a tiny area on the inside of his ear in a unique color.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself (Mario Family (Japan) in GBC emulator)
Character select screen from Excitebike: Bun Bun Mario Battle Stadium, a title for the Japan-exclusive Satellaview add-on for the Super Famicom. Wario bullying Toad may be a reference to the at the time recently released Wario’s Woods, another game featuring Wario antagonizing Toad.
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