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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One of the bonus rooms in Chapter 7-1 of Super Paper Mario contains a pipe that releases Squog enemies. If the Pixl Boomer is placed onto the pipe and detonated at the moment a new Squog is released, the Squog, instead of being defeated, will flip upside-down and continue moving backwards. It will also shoot projectiles out of its back side.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself (Super Paper Mario in Wii emulator)
In the Chocolate Secret level in Super Mario World, one particular Chargin’ Chuck* can kick footballs through walls.
*The football-kicking variety of Chargin’ Chuck is called “Passin’ Chuck” in the Nintendo Power Mario Mania Player’s Guide.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: Super Mario World, recorded by me in SNES emulator
A 1994 Spanish game show featured a challenge where a contestant was to use an oxy-fuel cutter to sever a metal pipe to free a captive woman dressed as Princess Daisy while a man in a Mario mascot costume watched. Here, you can see Daisy in a cage with Mario waiting outside. This segment was sponsored by Nintendo of Spain to promote Super Mario Land, hence the choice of Princess Daisy instead of Peach.
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1997 print ad for Silicon Graphics computer workstations, featuring Wing Mario from Super Mario 64. Silicon Graphics owns MIPS Technologies, the company that produced the MIPS R4300i microprocessor used in the Nintendo 64. The rabbit character MIPS from Super Mario 64 is named after that processor.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: Next Generation (US), Issue 29, 1997
Luigi has been playable in every game in the Mario Party series. He appears on all covers of the Mario Party games (sometimes as the smallest character, as in the case of Mario Party 9; or only in an extremely tiny screenshot, as in the case of Mario Party: The Top 100) except one: Mario Party Advance. Here is a guide on where Luigi can be found on all box artworks in the series.
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Top: a promotional banner for Yoshi’s Crafted World used on the official Japanese Nintendo site for the game. Note that this image is only available with the Japanese logo.
Bottom: a version of the image altered to include the English logo and changed to wallpaper dimensions by twitter.com user “YoshisMoon”. Note that this image is not official content, and is only provided as a convenience for those who may wish to use the banner as a wallpaper.
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Audio recording of a 1996 preview video tape released by Square for Super Mario RPG. Of interest are the unique arrangements of the tracks playing in the background.
At 0:02: Intro theme (In the Flower Garden)
At 0:22: Mushroom Kingdom theme (Hello, Happy Kingdom)
At 1:16: Normal battle theme (Fight Against Monsters)
At 2:54: Tadpole Pond theme (Grandpa and the Delightful Tadpoles)
Top: extremely rare prototype footage of Super Mario Bros. 3 showing an early version of World 1-3. Note how the design differs from the finished version, especially by the addition of a tall white block to the right of the brick structure.
Bottom: the same segment of World 1-3 from the release version of the game, for comparison.
