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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From the press kit for the 1990 Nintendo World Championships.
Title screen for a bootleg Game Boy Color game.
Top: A “Paper Mario RPG” logo used in 1996 by Famitsu Magazine for a Super Mario RPG fan art contest.
Bottom: The Japanese logo for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, known as “Paper Mario RPG” in Japan. Although this is most likely a coincidence, Famitsu ended up predicting the name of a game released 8 years later.
Decoration from a festival in Brownsville, Texas.
From Super Mario-Kun.
Illustrations of the Yoshi Doll item from The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening as seen in official guides published in different countries. Top: Japan, bottom left: United States, bottom right: Germany.
In 2016, Nintendo filed a trademark application for the coin sound effect from the Mario series. This is a transcription of the sound from the trademark documentation.
Diagrams seen in the background of the Tick Tock Clock track in Mario Kart 8.
Mario Tennis for the Nintendo 64 contains a model viewer within a dummied-out debug mode that can be accessed with cheats. This feature allows us to see what the player characters’ models look like before animation data is applied to them.
Top left: DK as he normally appears. Top right: DK’s default model before animations are applied. Bottom: 360-degree view of DK’s default model.
During the introductory scene to Super Mario Galaxy 2, Peach’s Castle seems to be relatively close to the camera, only a few hills over. Zooming out, we can see it is positioned on a floating island far away from the path Mario is on.
