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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Playing pieces from the Super Mario Bros. Great Ladder Race Game.
Bowser powers up for the final battle in a Super Mario 64 manga.
Bootleg Wario toy being advertised as “Terrorist Louis”. After attempting to find out the source of that error, the most likely explanation is a misspelling of “Terror Luigi”, a Luigi’s Mansion toy of Luigi with a scared expression sold by the same retailer, being fed into Google Translate.
Various beta screenshots from Yoshi’s Story.
Super Mario Bros. jigsaw puzzle from Finland.
Princess Daisy’s skeleton from Mario Strikers Charged.
Top: In Nintendo Power’s Mario Mania guide, published in 1991, Shigeru Miyamoto mentioned Mario possibly wearing metallic clothes in the future. Five years later, in 1996, the Metal Cap appeared in Super Mario 64. Since normally, games have development cycles shorter than five years, this could be chalked up to coincidence, however…
Bottom: In Nintendo Power Issue 80, released in January 1996, Miyamoto revealed that work on Super Mario 64 began five years prior, in 1991. This makes it possible that the comment on metallic clothes was intentional foreshadowing on Miyamoto’s part.
Cards from the Waddingtons Super Mario Bros. Blockbusting Card Game.
From a manga based on Super Mario Bros. 2, known in Japan as Super Mario USA.
Mario Party: Island Tour was released in Japan four months after its North American release. During this time, adjustments were made to the box art: some characters were slightly repositioned, and Rosalina was erased.
