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: the Sticker Album in Super Smash Bros. Brawl includes a badge from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, shaped like a red triangle with a fist emblem. The game calls it the “Mega Rush” badge.
Bottom: however, this is incorrect. In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, this design is used for the Power Plus badge instead. The actual Mega Rush badge can be seen below it in the list, and uses a different design with an orange octagon.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, PM:TTYD (GC) and SSBB (Wii) in various emulators
Top: “Golf” corn snack sold in Israel featuring an unlicensed use of Yoshi artwork from Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour on the packaging.
Bottom: note that unlicensed Yoshi imagery appears to be popular on products in Israel, as seen on this packaging for apple-scented dish soap by an unrelated company.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: top: twitter.com user “HillelArt”, bottom: see bottom of image
In Super Mario Odyssey, jumping on the Shiverian Nesting Dolls souvenir inside the Odyssey after buying them from the Snow Kingdom Crazy Cap store will cause the dolls to repeatedly assemble and disassemble.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, Super Mario Odyssey (Switch) on original hardware
Top: a promotional video for WarioWare Gold from Nintendo of Japan’s official YouTube channel included this scene of Kat and Ana fighting a samurai skeleton. The skeleton does not appear in the actual game.
Middle/bottom: this is actually a reference to the samurai skeleton that appeared in the intro to Kat and Ana’s story in the original WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames for the Game Boy Advance.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: 1, 2: myself, WarioWare Inc (NA, GBA) in GBA emulator
The first four notes of the xylophone intro section of the Ghostly Galaxy music in Super Mario Galaxy, before the main melody starts, spell out “D-E-A-D”. Below is the relevant part isolated alongside a guide on how to read the lowest octave in the treble clef. Whether this is a coincidence or a deliberate reference to the nature of the level is unknown.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source
Left: in the international Game Boy version of Donkey Kong Land 3, Bear, the shopkeeper, is animated as he talks to the playable characters.
Right: however, in the Japanese Game Boy Color version, Bear is no longer animated due to difficulties in keeping the correct colors during the animation, and is instead part of the background.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, DKL3 (NA & Japan, GB/GBC) in a GBC emulator
