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 the Forest Fortress in Super Mario World, it is possible to defeat a Grinder by sliding into it using the Triangular Block. Since Grinders are not supposed to be defeated, its sprite becomes glitched as it falls offscreen. (Footage recorded by me from a SNES emulator.)
Cover of I am a Teacher: Super Mario Sweater, a sewing simulator program for the Famicom Disk System that offered designs based on characters and items from the Mario series.
During the gameplay presentation for the upcoming Yoshi game for the Switch, a number of barcodes could be seen on background elements in the stages. Looking up the barcodes reveals that they are real barcodes for products that have seemingly no connection to Nintendo, such as a home fragrance by an unrelated company. This is almost certainly a coincidence, as the barcode seems to have been chosen by inputting mostly sequential digits, but it raises the question of why Nintendo would risk accidentally inserting the barcode of a product they would not wish to promote when they could instead choose to use barcodes of existing Nintendo products.
The Yoshi’s Island boss Burt the Bashful (top left) wears pants that greatly resemble the pants of the Asterix comic book character Obelix (top right). This has been noted by two separate European localization teams, who decided to give Burt the Bashful names that are anagrams of “Obelix”. He is called “Bélixo” in the French version (bottom left) and “Xilebo” in the German version of the game (bottom right). (Screenshots taken by me in a SNES emulator.)
The Nintendo Express, a bus that toured through Scandinavia in 1990 and offered a variety of Nintendo-related activities.
In Super Mario World, taking a Buzzy Beetle through the exit pipe in Donut Plains 2 results in the Buzzy Beetle’s shell assuming a grey color scheme. In addition, no matter how much time passes,
the Buzzy Beetle will never emerge from its shell again. (Footage recorded by me from a SNES emulator.)
Animated background from the Tiny Wario stage in WarioWare: Smooth Moves. (Source)
Print advertisement for Mario Party 2.
Beta footage of New Super Mario Bros. showing that at some point in development, the Mega Mushroom was colored the same as the Super Mushroom and required several hits to fully emerge from the block. In the finished game, it has a yellow and red color scheme and emerges automatically after the block was hit once. (Source)
Animation cel used in the production of the Donkey Kong cereal commercial.
