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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Top: In the trailer for Paper Mario: The Origami King, Mario wears a helmet modeled after Samus’s helmet from the Metroid series.
Bottom: however, this is not the first time the series have been cross-referenced. In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, a Paper Mario sticker is unlockable by letting the game detect a save file for Super Paper Mario on the system.
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In Super Mario Bros., only one power-up can be on screen at any time. If a power-up is spawned while another one is already present, the existing one will disappear. A side effect is that the new power-up may inherit some properties of the existing one. If a Super Mushroom is spawned when a Super Star bounces off the ground, the Super Mushroom will jump out of its block, inheriting the Super Star’s bouncing motion.
Set of officially licensed Super Mario Kart figurines from Japan.
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In Super Mario World, with extremely precise movement, Yoshi can stomp on a shell in mid-air, turn around, and eat the dust particles from the destruction of the shell on the first frame they appear. This causes the game to reset the state of the shell so that it is intact again within Yoshi’s mouth, allowing him to spit it out and repeat this indefinitely. If Yoshi does not touch the ground during this, doing it also causes each stomped shell to count as a new enemy, allowing unlimited 1-Ups to be obtained.
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Japanese print ad for the 2003 Nintendo Game Seminar, a workshop on game design organized by Nintendo, featuring pencil sketches of Mario and Bowser.
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In Super Mario 64, if Wing Mario’s Wing Cap power runs out in the Tower of the Wing Cap course in such a way that he loses all health upon falling, but then falls off the edge of the tower (top), then he will land in the castle lobby as though he had exited the level normally. However, his health will still be empty, causing him to enter his death animation immediately after falling (bottom).
Unused “Desert Cave” background found in the data of New Super Mario Bros. U. This was likely dropped due to using a much darker and more realistic texture than the game’s other backgrounds and being deemed unfitting of the art style.
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Covers of all issues of Super Mario 3 Magazine, a Japanese guide for Super Mario Bros. 3 that was published in 7 monthly installments.
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Top: the Tree Top Town level in Donkey Kong Country is set in a village of houses built into tall trees. The music that plays in this level is called “Treetop Rock” in the English version of the official soundtrack.
Middle: however, in the Japanese version, the music is called “The Ewok Level” instead (number 23).
Bottom: this is a reference to the 1983 film Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, where a location called the forest moon of Endor was featured that the Tree Top Town level greatly resembles. It was populated by the Ewok species, hence the name of the track.
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Illustration for the “Oil Panic” game in Game & Watch Gallery for an activity book, shared by the picture’s original artist on his personal social media account in high resolution.
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