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 the corner of the registration slip included with North American copies of Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, the copyright information is misspelled as “Mario & Luigi™: Partners in Crime”.
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Artwork used for a 1994 officially licensed Super Mario World jigsaw puzzle from Japan.
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In the second issue of Nintendo Power, a fold-out calendar marks October 11th as Mario’s birthday. As there has never been an official statement on Mario’s birthday from Nintendo of Japan, and Nintendo Power was published by Nintendo of America, this is the closest to an official date for Mario’s birthday that is currently known.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: Nintendo Power (US), Issue 2, 1988
A 1992 French interview with Shigeru Miyamoto contained footage of him playing Super Mario World. In this excerpt, Miyamoto attempts to get a 1-Up by jumping on all the Koopa Troopas in the beginning of Yoshi’s Island 2, but ends up dying instead; the camera then shows his reaction.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: twitter.com user “JohnAndersen21″
Top left: In the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book, there is a piece of concept art for lava platforms in the Luncheon Kingdom that depicts the lava as having distinct beige swirls in it.
Top right: the texture from the concept art is in fact used in-game - only at a scale that makes it nearly impossible to see except from very far away. The swirls are extremely large so that playing the game normally, they appear to be simply areas of slightly differently colored lava.
Bottom: the only way they can be seen in-game is from the Floating Sky Island, which allows the entire kingdom to be seen at once. From here, the giant swirls can be distinguished.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: scan provided by twitter.com users “OtherEhm” and “eientei__”
A Mario hamburger featured in a cooking section of the Japanese Famitsu magazine in 1986.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: twitter.com user “NintendoMemo”
High-resolution map of the Beanbean Kingdom, found exclusively in the official Nintendo Power guide for Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. Unfortunately, artwork of Mario’s hand is nearly completely covering Oho Oasis on the right side of the map, and no completely unobscured version of it exists.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: Nintendo Power MLSS Guide (US), 2003, ISBN 1930206437
The Mario statue at the Nintendo Tokyo store features a detail on his clothing that is completely new and has been absent from all his other depictions: a star pattern on the buttons of his overalls. Even Super Mario Odyssey, which is to date the game where Mario has had the most detail in his model, gives him completely smooth buttons.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: twitter.com users “primdark”, “ChiEri_s2a4h”
On the World 4 map in New Super Mario Bros., whenever Mario takes the unlockable path between W4-1 and the Green Mushroom House, he will walk backwards on the left portion of the path, changing his walking direction at the corner. This is the only path in the game this happens on.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: myself, NSMB (NA, DS) in DS emulator
