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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The “Heads Up” Flash game that was featured on Nintendo of America’s official site for Super Mario Strikers, consisting of Mario very angrily bouncing a ball on his head. (Source)
Cover of a Japanese Super Mario Bros. picture book. Note Princess Peach’s design; this is the only known instance of Peach having that hair color.
“Musical Yoshi” toy available as part of a McDonald’s Happy Meal promotion in 2006. (Source)
From the Japanese commercial for Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam. (Source)
The Super Mario 64 title screen after changing the game’s code to unload Mario’s mustache. (Source)
Concept art for a Goomba from the Super Mario Bros. movie, found on a trading card.
The back of the South Korean manual for Super Mario Sunshine contains a map of Isle Delfino that is more detailed than any other existing map. A low-resolution version of it appears in-game during the courtroom cutscene, but is quickly filled up with markings that make it unreadable.
In 2016, Nintendo of America has started distributing children’s hospital gowns featuring images of Mario characters to, in their own words, “bring smiles to children by replacing unattractive and uncomfortable
hospital garments with bright, new Brave Gowns [that will]
help comfort and empower kids, letting them take their favorite Mushroom Kingdom friend on their treatment journey.“
Top: the Engine Room observatory dome from Super Mario Galaxy. The space between the pipes on the top of the room appears completely black, but this is not due to having a black texture; instead, that part of the room simply has its brightness set to zero.
Bottom: Opening up the model of the Engine Room in a model viewer lets us see the texture of the part previously obscured by darkness. It is in fact a visually distorted version of the Nintendo GameCube logo. Why the logo is present in a Wii game, and why it is hidden, is unknown.
The Yellow Shy Guy trophy in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS (source) models Shy Guy’s legs up to above the knee. However, the full extent of the legs is not visible in-game, and can only be seen when viewing the model’s wireframe. We can see that the Shy Guy’s knee does not bend as a human knee would, instead, it bends in the opposite direction. This implies that Shy Guy anatomy is less human-like than it appears at first.
