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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In Super Paper Mario, the exterior of Fort Francis is visible for only a few frames in full during a cutscene at the beginning of Chapter 3-4. After a fraction of a second, Bowser begins talking and his speech bubble obscures the top half of the fort, after which the camera focuses on the characters and never returns to the wide shot of the area. In addition, it is impossible to watch this cutscene again on the same save file. I have taken an enhanced screenshot of the fort during the brief moment it is visible, at four times the game’s normal resolution. This should be the most high-quality image of Fort Francis possible.
Charles Martinet speaking Spanish as Mario in the Latin American version of the commercial for Mario Golf on the Game Boy Color. (Source)
Illustrations of Luigi punching and kicking Koopalings from a Japanese Super Mario World picture book.
Back of the Japanese official soundtrack CD for Super Mario 64.
Nintendo-sponsored cross-promotion for Oreo brand cookies and New Super Mario Bros. 2.
Parade float featuring Mario and Yoshi and people dressed in Mario costumes at the 2015 Rose Monday carnival parade in Mainz, Germany.
Japanese Super Mario Kart figurines, sold in an unfinished state to be painted by the customer.
Luigi’s Mansion contains an unused eye texture for Luigi. I have applied the texture to Luigi’s model, extracted from the game’s files, to show what it would have looked like in-game. (Model source; texture source)
It is possible to make Mario stand on the death plane on the bottom of Whomp’s Fortress in Super Mario 64. If the player collects the 100th coin above a retracting platform (top left), it is possible to touch the star when there is no ground below it (top right). Mario will land on the death plane in mid-air and a save prompt will appear. As soon as the dialogue box disappears, Mario will die. (Footage of the VC version recorded by me in a Wii emulator.)
Illustrations from the Nintendo Power strategy guide for Super Mario Bros. 3.
