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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In Super Paper Mario, during the battle against Mr. L in Chapter 4-4, he will occasionally try to restore his health by using a Shroom Shake. It is possible to interrupt him during this by attacking him; however, if Thoreau’s ability is used, the player character will instead steal the Shroom Shake from Mr. L and add it to their inventory. This can be done a maximum of 3 times in the battle before Mr. L runs out of Shroom Shakes.
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Mario’s behavior on platforms moving downward off-screen in Super Mario Bros. and in the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 (known internationally as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels) has been reversed in these games’ respective remakes in Super Mario All-Stars.
Top left: in the original Super Mario Bros., Mario dies when carried downward off-screen by a moving platform.
Top right: in the original Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Mario wraps around and falls from the top of the screen in that scenario.
Bottom left: however, in the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros., Mario wraps around instead.
Bottom right: conversely, in the Super Mario All-Stars version of the Lost Levels, he dies instead. The reason why the behaviors were swapped is unknown.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: myself, SMB (NA), SMB2 (J), SMAS (NA) in various emulators
Officially licensed 1991 set of Mario dominoes from the Netherlands. For unknown reasons, instead of using default official artwork of these characters, Luigi is depicted on a motorcycle and Bowser is holding a key.
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Prototype title screen theme for Mario Kart 64, used in the November 1995 version that was still called “Super Mario Kart R”. The style of this track is drastically different from anything heard in the finished game.
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Unused animations for Mario’s skeleton found in the data of Super Mario Galaxy 2. In the finished game, Mario’s skeleton briefly replaces his regular model when he is hit with electricity and has no animations of its own; these animations suggest the skeleton model was intended to be used more prominently at some point during development.
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The digital manual for Arcade Archives: Vs. Super Mario Bros. contains an error in the page detailing the game’s story whereby it claims that Mario and Luigi must rescue Bowser from Peach, instead of vice versa.
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Illustrations from a picture book included with a bottle of officially licensed Super Mario shampoo from Japan, showing Mario being tired from working and Luigi and Yoshi telling him to take a bath, followed by a scene of Mario and Yoshi washing themselves.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: twitter.com user “blacktangent”
Design from an officially licensed Mario T-shirt, consisting of outlines of various official artwork in a collage shaped like a Super Mushroom.
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A 1992 French documentary about Nintendo contained archive footage of the development process of Super Mario Bros. 3. Here, the developer is seen using the Nintendo-internal level editor on what appears to be an early version of Level 7-Airship with a different palette. The bottom footage shows a debug function within gameplay where Mario is able to move freely through space without collision.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: twitter.com user “JohnAndersen21″
Left: since its founding, the National Videogame Museum in Frisco, Texas contained this Mario statue in the entrance area.
Right: however, in January 2020, it was demolished and replaced with a larger sculpture depicting not only Mario, but also other famous video game characters.
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