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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Sprites of Thin Wario from the Crowd Control microgame in WarioWare: Smooth Moves. This is the closest the WarioWare franchise has come to acknowledging Waluigi.
Bowser’s crying animation from the ending to Mario’s Time Machine on the NES.
The Prima guide for Super Mario 3D World contains a screenshot of what seems to be an early version of the intro cutscene. Below is the same frame of the cutscene in the finished version. Among obvious changes like the different sky, shading and the addition of motion blur to Bowser’s roar, purple fog has been added to the pipe to hide Bowser’s distorted body.
Losing sprites from the Yoshi’s Cookie mode of the Japan-only Nintendo Puzzle Collection.
Mario and Luigi in the year 2059, from a Mario variety manga.
Near the beginning of the intro to Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, Peach is seen making a shot. Even though a sound effect of her hitting the ball plays and her facial expression suggests that it flew in a high arc, watching the ball closely reveals that it doesn’t actually move from the tee, indicating that she missed the swing.
Top: the shadow Mario casts in Super Mario Sunshine is made out of flattened polygons spread across the ground. Since it is always rendered at the same resolution Mario is, it enables the shadow to remain crisp at any zoom level.
Bottom: In Super Mario Galaxy, Mario’s shadow is calculated from Mario’s model for every frame in a fixed resolution. This makes it appear pixelated when it is close to the camera.
From the commercial for Donkey Kong Land 2.
Top: The deformation applied to Mario’s model in Super Mario 64 two frames before being squashed by a Thwomp.
Middle: One frame before being squashed by a Thwomp.
Bottom: Being squashed by a Thwomp.
Box art for Super Bros. World for the MSX home computer.
