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Screenshots, photos, sprites, gifs, scans and more from all around the world of Super Mario Bros.
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The CD-ROM version of the 1994 educational title Mario’s Early Years: Fun with Numbers contains a song where nine Koopalings are enumerated:
1. Iggy Koopa
2. Roy Koopa
3. Larry Koopa
4. ?
5. Ludwig von Koopa
6. Lemmy Koopa
7. Morton Koopa Jr.
8. Wendy O. Koopa
9. ?
The names of Koopalings 4 and 9 are not stated, and their identities remain unclear to this day as they have not reappeared since.
Unlicensed Chinese board game based on Super Mario World. Note the Yoshi design on a card in the bottom right.
In the first half of the 1990′s, Nintendo’s tech support service has used special cartridges to test SNES systems’ various functions to determine if the console was fully operational. One such cartridge, the 1992 SNES Burn-in Test Cartridge, contains a unique sprite of the Mario enemy known as Podoboo or Lava Bubble (top image). Although the sprite’s lines are identical to the Super Mario World Lava Bubble, the coloring is completely different. While this is almost certainly a coincidence, this coloring has shown up in Paper Mario: Color Splash in 2016, 24 years later (bottom image).
1990 promotional poster for Club Nintendo France featuring a wide variety of video game and cartoon characters interacting, including many copies of Mario.
In Game & Watch Gallery 2, the “Ball” minigame has four playable characters that can be selected: Mario, Yoshi, Wario and Bowser. A mode with a fifth playable character, Peach, exists in the game’s code but is not normally accessible. Using cheats, Peach can be selected and played as, however due to being scrapped, the minigame’s graphics are not rendered correctly, resulting in Peach being displayed with two heads.
Margin illustrations from a Japanese guide for Super Mario Kart. (Source: Super Mario Kart Shogakukan Guide (Japan), APE, 1992)
Illustration from Super Mario Bros.: Trapped in the Perilous Pit, a children’s book based on Super Mario Bros.
Unlicensed clothing depicting a crossover between Mario and Street Fighter.
The data for Super Mario Odyssey contains this unused animation of Pauline walking while wearing her concert dress. In the finished game, she does not move around during the New Donk City festival. Please note that the wrong coloration and missing parts of the model are a limitation of the rendering engine used to access the files, and are not indicative of how the model would have appeared in-game. (Source)
Mario interacting with Monopoly mascot Rich Uncle Pennybags in a commercial for Monopoly Gamer Mario Edition.
