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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Promotional art for an upcoming Nintendo live music event in Japan, taking place after the Switch presentation on January 14th/15th.
From a 1987 Japanese commercial for Super Mario Bros. rice seasoning.
In Super Mario Bros. 3, Frog Mario’s hitbox extends further than his body to include the space below his head. As a result, Frog Mario can hang onto platforms next to him without standing on them. This applies to all versions of the game.
Unused images of Luigi from Luigi’s Mansion.
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, on rare occasions the Penguins in Poshley Heights may walk backwards after Mario finishes talking to them.
In Super Mario World, if Yoshi licks up a P-Switch after it has been pressed and spits it out fast enough, a Cheep-Cheep will spawn alongside the P-Switch.
Box of Super Mario Bros. chocolate cookies.
Print-outs for do-it-yourself Mario and Luigi costumes from Nintendo’s activity website.
In Donkey Kong Country Returns, the “freelook” mode on the world map does not let the player move the camera low enough to see the horizon. By forcibly moving the camera within the emulator, we can see that a horizon with a skybox is in fact modeled for this scene.
In the files of Super Mario 3D World, a sixth character icon as well as a sixth logo appear alongside the images for the five playable characters. These files are not referenced by the game’s code, and their purpose is unknown.
Since I am receiving messages doubting the veracity of this, here is the source.
