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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Spanish print ad for Mario Kart 64. The text translates to “16 valves? No. 64″.
Main Blog | Source: Hobby Consolas (Spain), Issue 69, 1997
All animated scenes featuring Mario from the French commercial for Top Gun: The Second Mission for the NES. During the early 1990s, Nintendo of France consistently commissioned animation of Mario to promote non-Mario games.
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Artwork from a 1991 Super Mario World poster from Japan. Note that this depicts Green Baby Yoshi (to the left of Mario and Yoshi), who technically only appears for a few seconds in the game’s ending.
Main Blog | Twitter | Source: twitter.com user “VGArtAndTidbits”
Officially licensed 1988 Mario slippers. This is a rare instance of Mario’s cap being depicted with nonstandard text after the introduction of the “M” emblem cap in 1985.
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Artwork featuring mostly Mario characters, with some characters from other games, from the Chilean Club Nintendo magazine. While the poses are taken from official artwork for various Mario games, the coloring and shading are original.
Main Blog | Twitter | Source: Club Nintendo (Chile), Issue 20, 1994
A rock remix of the Rainbow Road music track from Mario Kart 64, exclusive to the F-Zero X Expansion Kit, an expansion disk for F-Zero X for the Japan-only Nintendo 64DD add-on.
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Outside and inside of Super Mario Home & Party, a small store selling Mario-themed merchandise which was set up temporarily in 2018 inside the Shibuya Loft mall in Tokyo, Japan. Note the Mario and Luigi figurines inserted between the Piranha Plant slippers in the bottom right photo.
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In 1990, a series of commercials for NES games in France all used the same intro, consisting of an animation of Mario running up to a Question Block and hitting it to reveal the box art of the game; in this example, Dragon Ball. None of the games featured in this campaign were themselves related to Mario.
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Trophy awarded to the winner of the Super Mario Swiss Cup ‘93, an officially sanctioned NES tournament in Switzerland, similar to the Nintendo World Championships in the US.
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