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 back cover of the Japanese official sountrack CD for Mario Tennis on the Nintendo 64 contains renders of Donkey Kong, Birdo, Paratroopa and Boo that have never been released at a high resolution. The bottom image shows the pictures in the highest definition that existing scans of the cover can provide.
By performing a specific glitch allowing Mario to enter doors in Paper Mode in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, it is possible to enter the final boss battle cutscene with Paper Mode active. Mario will remain turned sideways for the remainder of the game as well as exhibit irregular behavior, such as walking away from Peach as she is lying on the floor after the battle.
In Super Mario Galaxy, Bowser’s battle theme, Nemesis King Koopa, is comprised of two separate tracks, the orchestra and the choir (which also includes a few extra instruments). In-game, the choir track always overlays the orchestra track. Here, you can hear it in isolation.
Luigi looking up how to cook a bison, from a set of Mario quiz cards.
In Super Mario Sunshine, Mario’s legs and feet are dynamically adjusted to slopes, changing angles to always be aligned with the ground. However, the effect has not been optimized for slopes with a steepness of over 45°, resulting in Mario’s legs deforming in unintended ways.
In the Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode “Flatbush Koopa”, Mario and Luigi find themselves outside of a burger shop. While the storefront normally reads “BURGER SHOP”, during one scene it reads “BURCER SHOR”.
In Super Mario Odyssey, Purple Coins (shown here in their triangular Sand Kingdom variety) are normally a vibrant purple color, as seen in the top image. However, inside 2D segments, the coins are depicted as blue instead. This might be a reference to the fact that Super Mario Bros. on the NES, after which Super Mario Odyssey’s 2D segments are styled, does not contain the color purple among any of its graphical assets.
Mario’s appearance at the 1996 Home Computer Show in Melbourne, Australia.
The paintings inside which Mario, Luigi and Wario are held captive, from Super Mario 64 DS.
There is a design parallel between the Mario Bros. and the princesses traditionally paired up with them. The number of eyelashes on Princess Peach’s eyes - six - matches the number of curved segments in Mario’s mustache. Likewise, Princess Daisy has two eyelashes on each eye, which matches Luigi’s two-segment mustache. Whether this is a coincidence or a deliberate design choice is unknown.
