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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Racers in Mario Kart 64 from the side. Every racer is a 2D sprite that is always turned towards the camera.
In Super Paper Mario, changing from Mario into a different character before starting the Tilt Island minigame will make you control that character in the game. Bowser is much larger and slower than the others, so playing as him gets you no benefit whatsoever outside of being a self-imposed challenge.
Mr. EAD dressed up as Princess Peach in the F-Zero: GP Legend anime.
Club Nintendo gift wallpaper.
Emulating Nintendo DS games in high resolution lets us see the disparity between the relatively high quality of the models’ geometry and the low quality of the textures.
Low-resolution Toad panicking in Super Mario Galaxy 2.
All Mario Kart 8 badges from Nintendo Badge Arcade.
In Super Mario Sunshine, NPCs are loaded when they are far away from the camera, while their animations are only active when they are much closer. From specific distances, it’s possible to see some characters activate their animations while the ones next to them remain motionless.
Concept art for King Koopa for the Super Mario Bros. movie. The one on the left was the proposed design for the character if he was played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In most 3D video games, some objects in a room are always loaded, while some load only whenever they are in view of the camera or near the player. Sometimes objects that are always loaded interact with objects that unload, like these Shy Guys in Mario Kart Wii.
