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 boot animation for the Japan-only Nintendo 64 Disk Drive features a spinning Nintendo 64 logo that, in regular intervals, undergoes changes in texture, size, and other attributes. In some of these cases, Mario appears and interacts with the logo for a few seconds. Here is one of the animations, where Mario is knocked back by the logo suddenly enlarging after being shrunk.
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The kiosk demo for Donkey Kong 64 contains several unused rooms and features that can be accessed by modifying the code. One such room is the Army Dillo boss battle stage, but containing torches, Zingers and the Mermaid from Gloomy Galleon standing up in a T-pose (top). Unused enemies also exist, such as Rareware logos that chase Donkey Kong around (bottom).
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A licensed Nintendo activity book featured a puzzle that purportedly revealed the identity of Mario’s brother. The answer, however, is not the expected “Luigi”, but “Wario” instead. The book treats this as fact, i.e. there is no later section explaining that the answer was a joke or purposely misleading.
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Top: the Japanese and US versions of Super Mario Bros. have a one-block gap above the pipe leading out of the water in Worlds 2-2 and 7-2. If Mario is in Super or Fire form, it is very easy to get stuck in the wall by ducking on the ground and then swimming into the gap. Mario will get sucked into the rocks and be unable to escape, with the only option being to wait until the time runs out to restart the level.
Bottom: in the European release, Nintendo has corrected the error in the simplest way possible. Rather than patch out the glitch that results in Mario being sucked into the wall (it can still be performed in other places in that version), the developers simply added a block to close the gap.
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Credits animation for completing Level 20 on the High speed setting in Dr. Luigi for the Wii U. Note that the animation is a perfect 96-frame loop for all characters present; while this is common for 2D sprite-based games, it is rare for a scene with multiple 3D entities to have each of their movements loop in the exact same number of frames outside of rhythm games.
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In Super Paper Mario, part of the plot of Chapter 7-3 is waking Princess Peach from a magically-induced sleep by bringing her a certain type of apple to eat. Only the Black Apple wakes her up; the other four types of apples result in Peach undergoing various transformations instead.
First image: the Blue Apple causes Peach to shrink.
Second image: the Yellow Apple causes Peach to grow a mustache.
Third image: the Red Apple causes Peach to grow.
Fourth image: the Pink Apple causes Peach to turn into an actual peach.
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The Japanese version of Mario’s Picross contained four puzzles that were cut from all other versions for depicting objects not appropriate for children, such as a cocktail, a beer stein, a cigarette in an ashtray, and a glass of wine. These were changed to more appropriate images: a Boo, a bird, a rabbit and a top hat respectively, for the other regions.
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Top: a page from the Japanese official guide for Super Mario All-Stars, introducing World 3 of Super Mario Bros. 3, Water Land. Below the map is a caption naming the world; it is called “海の国” (”Umi no Kuni”), meaning “Sea Country”.
Middle: a frame from a Japanese trailer for Super Mario Odyssey, showing the Seaside Kingdom. In the upper left corner, the location’s name is displayed, it is also called “海の国”.
Bottom: the two names for comparison. While the name “Sea Country” is simple enough that naming two unrelated locations this way could be a coincidence, Super Mario Odyssey does reference Super Mario Bros. 3 deliberately in other ways (the Slots minigame music, the Rocket Flower sound effect and the Jizo statue design), so that there is at least a possibility of the developers having intended Water Land and Seaside Kingdom to be the same location.
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