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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Beta screenshot from New Super Mario Bros, featuring a background and tileset unused in the final version. (Source)
Rare Super Mario 64 beta screens. (Source)
Baby Bowser’s castle from the Yoshi’s Story GBA tech demo. It has been colorized from its original appearance in Yoshi’s Story. (Screenshot taken by me in a GBA emulator.)
The Super Mario Bros. 2 prototype allows you to skip levels. If you skip past the final level, this results. (Source)
Screens from an unreleased Mario Land game for the Virtual Boy. Wario was supposed to be the villain and there would have been Zelda-like overhead dungeon portions - possibly to mirror how Zelda games sometimes have side-scrolling rooms. (Source)
Cranky Kong in Diddy Kong Pilot, a prototype version of Banjo-Pilot. (Footage recorded by me in a GBA emulator, using a prototype ROM.)
Early Super Mario 64 images from Nintendo Power. (Source: Nintendo Power, Issue 84, May 1996)
Very early preview of Paper Mario from Nintendo Power. (Source)
Diddy, Dixie, Cranky and K. Rool from Diddy Kong Pilot, an early prototype of Banjo-Pilot on the Game Boy Advance. (Source)
This Kong with a hat was featured heavily in early Donkey Kong Land art - without name or explanation - and then was dropped once the game came out. He remains a mystery. (Source)
