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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Artwork used for a 1994 officially licensed Super Mario World jigsaw puzzle from Japan.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: flickr.com user “gamescanner”
Officially licensed Super Mario Bros. 3 Valentine’s Day cards. Note that in the lower left card, the King Koopa design from the Mario cartoons is recolored to be closer to Bowser’s colors in the games for a unique hybrid design.
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In the second issue of Nintendo Power, a fold-out calendar marks October 11th as Mario’s birthday. As there has never been an official statement on Mario’s birthday from Nintendo of Japan, and Nintendo Power was published by Nintendo of America, this is the closest to an official date for Mario’s birthday that is currently known.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: Nintendo Power (US), Issue 2, 1988
In Paper Mario, there is unused functionality to use some healing items on partners in the game’s data. Normally, since partners in this game do not have HP, they cannot be healed; however, this function would have allowed Mario to use a Mushroom on an incapacitated partner to restore them, as shown with Goombario in the footage. This function also includes a unique animation of Mario throwing the item at the partner.
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Illustration from the Brazilian print ad for Mario Tennis on the Game Boy Color.
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A 1992 French interview with Shigeru Miyamoto contained footage of him playing Super Mario World. In this excerpt, Miyamoto attempts to get a 1-Up by jumping on all the Koopa Troopas in the beginning of Yoshi’s Island 2, but ends up dying instead; the camera then shows his reaction.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: twitter.com user “JohnAndersen21″
Top left: In the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book, there is a piece of concept art for lava platforms in the Luncheon Kingdom that depicts the lava as having distinct beige swirls in it.
Top right: the texture from the concept art is in fact used in-game - only at a scale that makes it nearly impossible to see except from very far away. The swirls are extremely large so that playing the game normally, they appear to be simply areas of slightly differently colored lava.
Bottom: the only way they can be seen in-game is from the Floating Sky Island, which allows the entire kingdom to be seen at once. From here, the giant swirls can be distinguished.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: scan provided by twitter.com users “OtherEhm” and “eientei__”
Character sheets for the main cast of the Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon, used internally by DiC Animation.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: 1: twitter.com user “Kking_64″, 2
A Mario hamburger featured in a cooking section of the Japanese Famitsu magazine in 1986.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: twitter.com user “NintendoMemo”
