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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Artwork of Mario crying after hitting his ball into a tree, from the official guide for Golf Japan Course for the Famicom Disk System.
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Early version of Mario’s model for Super Mario RPG, seen in the British Superplay magazine (left) compared to the model from the finished game (right).
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: Superplay (UK), Issue 39, 1996
Promotional T-shirt for the 20th anniversary celebration of Super Mario Bros. in 2005, where Mario is congratulated by Doshin the Giant from the GameCube game of the same name. Doshin the Giant was only released in Japan and Europe, but players in North America may recognize him from trophies featured in Super Smash Bros. Melee.
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In Super Mario World, if all four Reznors are defeated extremely quickly (usually possible only with very precise movement), one Reznor will remain in the room instead of disappearing, floating in mid-air as shown in the footage.
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Illustration from the British NGC magazine.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: NGC (UK), Issue 108, 2005
Top: in Super Mario Odyssey, if Mario stands on the tail of the Tail Tree in the Mushroom Kingdom, he will sit down, as he usually does if placed on a bench.
Bottom: this is a reference to the ending of Super Mario 3D Land, where Mario and Peach are shown sitting on the tail of the Tail Tree.
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Cover of “Das Super Mario Buch” (”The Super Mario Book”), an unauthorized 1992 collection of guides for various Mario games from Germany.
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In Super Mario 64 DS, it is possible to pound signposts into the ground. An additional detail is the difference between the characters: while Yoshi, Mario and Luigi take two Ground Pounds to fully pound the signposts, Wario can do it in a single Ground Pound due to his greater weight.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: SM64DS (NA, DS); info
Instructions on how to play the main theme for the NES version of Donkey Kong (also later repurposed as the beginning of the Donkey Kong Country main theme) on the Ocarina of Time inside The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, from the Brazilian Nintendo World magazine. The arrows on some notes indicate that the Control Stick should be held in that direction, which changes the pitch; same for “Z” meaning that Z should be held. The magazine also correctly identifies the composer of the piece as Shigeru Miyamoto; he composed the entire soundtrack for the Donkey Kong arcade.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: Nintendo World (Brazil), Issue 9, 1999
