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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Top left: in the Kitchen observatory dome in Super Mario Galaxy, a comet can be seen passing by a planet through the window. This can not be seen up close in-game, as the camera cannot be moved inside domes.
Top right: the texture for the comet, extracted from the game’s files.
Bottom: this texture is actually a modified version of a real-world scientific photograph, taken by NASA in 1986. It depicts Halley’s Comet, a comet that periodically visits the solar system every 75-76 years. The next appearance of Halley’s Comet will be in 2061 or 2062.
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Officially licensed 2004 Super Mario Bros. clock from Japan. Note that the seconds hand is a Firebar; as it makes a full turn once a minute, the clock resembles a scene from one of the game’s castle levels.
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Concept art for the birds in the Cap Kingdom, seen in the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book. The birds were originally intended to have the hat be a more prevalent part of their design; however, in the finished version (seen on the right), the design was changed to the regular birds first seen in Super Mario 3D Land, wearing small top hats.
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Page from a Super Mario All-Stars manga where the versions of Mario from all four games in the collection see that the worlds of the games have begun to merge. Note the “USA” on the rightmost Mario’s shirt; this is due to the Japanese name for the game known internationally as Super Mario Bros. 2 being “Super Mario USA”.
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In the Japanese version of Super Mario Sunshine, when the player has collected 10 Shine Sprites, Yellow Toad will be absent from Delfino Plaza. He is actually still present, but misplaced to a plane below the playable area due to a glitch. Using exploits, it is possible to reach him and talk to him, but Mario will die during the conversation in the manner depicted.
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Officially licensed 1988 Super Mario Bros. bed sheets, featuring a scene inspired by the original Japanese box art for Super Mario Bros.
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In Super Mario 64, when presented with a secret Star by the Toad in the Hazy Maze Cave room in Peach’s Castle, by kicking off the wall in the manner depicted, it is possible to have Mario’s momentum throw him into the Hazy Maze Cave entrance pool. The cutscene of Mario getting the star and the save prompt will play normally, upon which the level will be entered immediately.
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On rare occasions, when Mario uses a fountain in Seaside Kingdom in Super Mario Odyssey, the camera may briefly sink below the surface of the water during the scene, causing a striking visual effect similar to quickly-moving clouds across the sky.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: reddit.com user “Apermax”
In Yoshi’s Island, if a rolling Shy Guy is hit with another enemy that Yoshi spits out of his mouth on the same frame his rolling animation should end, instead of being destroyed, the Shy Guy will instead roll in place indefinitely.
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Illustration of Yoshi and Baby Mario using a Sony PlayStation and a Sega Saturn as platforms to hop over lava from a review of Yoshi’s Island in the German Maniac magazine. The review maintained that Yoshi’s Island is better than any game on the two consoles depicted.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: Maniac (Germany), Issue 95/11, 1995
