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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Bootleg Mario games.
Shigeru Miyamoto playing the banjo in front of his Mario plushie.
Super Mario Bros. 3 coloring book.
An unused level named “#2 MORTON’S PLAINS” can be found in the files of Super Mario World. It is a functional copy of Donut Plains 1 with glitched graphics. Top: a section of the level. Bottom: the background from the level, horizontally tileable.
The model for Bowser’s skeleton from Mario Strikers Charged.
This picture was drawn by Shigeru Miyamoto during the design phase for Donkey Kong Country as a suggestion to the Rare development team that Donkey Kong should wear a tie in that game. The earlier Rare concept art visualized Donkey Kong without a tie.
From the Swedish Club Nintendo magazine.
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Goombella mentions having shoes. Since her sprite uses the same graphics for her feet as all the other Goombas in the game (with only a color change applied), this seems to imply that all Goombas are in fact wearing shoes. However, in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Goombella’s trophy shows a new design for her that adds soles to her feet, differentiating them from other Goombas and making them look more like shoes. While this design decision was most likely a coincidence, there is a chance that it could have been an attempt to clear up the above quote.
Beta screenshots from Super Mario 64 showing an early Thwomp design.
From a Japanese store promo for Mario’s Picross.
