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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Officially licensed glow-in-the-dark Boo liquid soap dispensers from Japan.
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In Chapter 5-2 of Super Paper Mario, there is a small chance that a Stone Buzzy in the room with the Yoshi statue will randomly turn invisible. Note Bowser dealing damage to what is seemingly thin air.
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The Sky Pop/Marine Pop theme from Super Mario Land is a remix of the second part of the Super Mario Bros. overworld theme. This makes it the only music in the soundtrack that references any previous game, as even the invincibility theme in Super Mario Land is different from the usual Super Star theme. This track plays one loop of the Sky Pop theme, then a segment of the Super Mario Bros. theme, and finally the relevant part of the Sky Pop theme again for comparison.
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Officially licensed Mario and Princess Peach tin.
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Top: in the pre-release versions of Super Mario 64, Power Stars were 2D sprites instead of 3D models as in the finished game.
Bottom: however, there is one remainder of the original Power Star design in the finished game. The small stars that appear on the title screen around Mario’s head if no input is made for a prolonged time use the same sprite as the pre-release Power Stars, only recolored.
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The data for Paper Mario contains an unused “Defend” function for Mario, which makes him crouch and increases his Defense stat by 1 (note how the Spiked Goomba, which has an Attack stat of 2, deals 1 damage, and the regular Goomba with an Attack stat of 1 deals no damage). This is identical in function and animation to the Defend function later used in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
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The Valiant Super Mario Bros. comics feature Shy Guys making various expressions with their masks. This does not usually happen in other media; whenever it does happen (like in Mario Strikers Charged), it is not as pronounced as seen in these comics.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: The Best Of The Super Mario Bros (US), 1990
Illustrations from an officially licensed Yoshi’s Island picture book from Japan.
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