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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In various levels throughout Super Mario World, bonus rooms where groups of three blocks must be hit in the correct order for a 1-Up can be found. There is a way to cheat at this mini-game and always collect every 1-Up by entering the bonus room as Cape Mario carrying a Koopa shell. By placing the shell on the ground and spinning Mario’s cape to make it hit the blocks, every hit registers as correct regardless of the order.
The background from Blargg’s Boiler in Yoshi’s Story.
The Cat and Lucky Cat forms of the playable characters in Super Mario 3D World.
Horizontally and vertically tileable background of the blanket from the Ribbon Road track in Mario Kart 8.
In Paper Mario, the neon sign on the front of Club 64 is still present when the interior of the building is loaded, suspended in mid-air barely out of view.
In Super Mario Sunshine, fruits were added to fountains in Delfino Plaza by the North American localization team. However, the fruit objects were never intended to spawn inside water by the original development team, as doing anything except for picking them up (such as spraying them with FLUDD) will cause them to immediately disappear.
Mario-related stamps from
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Cover of a Japanese strategy guide for Super Mario Bros. 3.
Super Mario Bros. greeting card.
In most 3D games, characters not in the camera’s field of view are not rendered to conserve processing power. In Mario Party 8, due to a high degree of optimization, this technique extends to parts of characters’ models in addition to entire characters. In this example, as the camera turns to view Toad from the back, his eyes are no longer rendered.
