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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Illustration from the “Super Mario Family Life” collection of products that were offered in November 2019 at the Nintendo Tokyo store.
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Page from a 1990 English dictionary for Japanese speakers which was licensed to use Mario characters. Note the spelling mistake in Luigi’s last line, “What’s your mame?”
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Original 3D animation made for the German commercial for Super Mario 64. Note how the Earth is flat before the chains are blasted by the Nintendo 64 controller; the voice-over talks about how the Nintendo 64 frees the world from the shackles of two-dimensional games by introducing 3D gameplay.
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Unused models and animations for the Super Mario 64 designs of Bullies and Big Bully, found in the data of Super Mario Galaxy.
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Mario congratulating the winner of the 1991 Nintendo Campus Challenge, a video game competition that included 60 college campuses throughout the US.
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In Super Mario Bros., whenever Small Mario hits a Brick Block from below, the Brick Block will rise slightly. If a Spiny walks onto the block during this animation, it will not treat the block as solid ground and instead of being hit as expected, it will fall through, killing Mario.
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In Super Mario 64, picking up a Cork Box, throwing it and then catching it again results in it permanently retaining the ability to damage enemies. It can then be carried around the course and placed in the way of enemies who will die upon touching it, as shown in the footage.
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The data for Mario Party 8 contains unused early models for each character’s Bowser Candy transformation. The Bowser bodies used here look more like Bowser’s actual body and not like a toy version of it as seen in the finished game. Note Boo’s unique transformation that simply gives him Bowser’s shell and arms instead of the entire body.
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