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: photo of a computer belonging to a print layout designer at Nintendo of Europe in 2005, from the German N-Zone magazine. The screen shows the designer working on the box for a German Gamecube Microphone + Mario Party 6 bundle. This is one of the very few existing behind-the-scenes looks into the process of the design of Mario game packaging.
Bottom: the finished box for the bundle. Note the subtle changes from the in-progress version such as a different age rating.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: 1: N-Zone (Germany), Issue 05/5, 2005; 2
Character design sheets of the “Uncle Mario” character from Episode 184 of the “Amazing World of Gumball” cartoon. The character is intended to be a reference to Mario as he is mistaken to be Nintendo’s Mario by one of the regular cast.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: 1, info: twitter.com user “CreeLikesCats”
On the Moonview Highway track in Mario Kart Wii, a poster for a musical called “The Mushroom Moon” can be found as a decoration on the side of the road. Normally, the poster depicts Peach; however, when playing as a Mii, Peach’s head is replaced with a randomly chosen Mii saved on the system. If the game is prevented from accessing the Mii registry, such as when the system memory is corrupted, the poster appears with Peach missing her head.
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Unused version of the “Pianta Village Festivities” track found in the data of Super Mario Sunshine that includes Yoshi drums. In the finished game, the eighth mission of Pianta Village where the track plays, “Fluff Festival Coin Hunt”, does not contain Yoshi.
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Nintendo of Japan’s 1996 corporate identity website used this original render of Mario’s model common in Nintendo 64 game official artwork as a header image.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source: twitter.com user “jel1luvs0u1″
In November 2019, the Donkey Kong statue that decorated the Nintendo New York store for many years was removed and replaced with a Bowser statue. Due to many visitors attempting to take pictures with the statue, it is surrounded by signs asking them to not climb or sit on it.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: 1, 2
In Luigi’s Mansion 3, a map of the Last Resort hotel can be found near elevators and examined. Comparing the map to the way the hotel actually appears in-game, it becomes apparent that the two do not fully correspond to each other.
The in-game hotel has fewer visible floors than the map, with some being absent, like the Paranormal Productions floor (right above the greenhouse floor on the map, decorated with a studio light). Some visible fixtures are in different places; note that the dome on the right side of the hotel is near the top of the map, but near the middle of the in-game hotel.
In all, the map is much more accurate to the layout of the inside of the hotel, which suggests that the design for the outside of the hotel was created much earlier and simply not updated as the floor layout changed during development.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: 1, 2: myself, Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Switch) on original hardware
