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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Behind-the-scenes photos from the making of the Mario and Luigi mascot costume heads used by costume company KCL Productions for many North American Nintendo commercials.
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1990 comic promoting various NES accessories from the British Club Nintendo magazine. Note that the comic features two aliens that are based on Tatanga, the villain from Super Mario Land; however, unlike Tatanga, who kidnaps Princess Daisy, they kidnap Princess Peach instead.
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The background music for the writing process on the Famicom Disk Writer kiosks. The Famicom Disk Writer kiosks were stations available across Japan in the late 1980s and 1990s where customers could pay a small fee to copy games to their rewritable Famicom Disk System disks, as an alternative to video game rental. During operation, the kiosks would show animations of Mario and Luigi that represented parts of the writing process.
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Top: drawings from various promotional material for Tommy Pizzas, a restaurant in Mexico City, Mexico.
Bottom: all drawings are based on a render from Super Mario 64.
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Officially licensed Yoshi’s Safari Mario doll with a gun which contains a rolled-up red tube that extends in the manner of a party horn when a button is pressed. This toy is notable for being featured in several promotional photos of Shigeru Miyamoto in 1993.
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Japanese print ad for the 2003 Nintendo Game Seminar, a workshop on game design organized by Nintendo, featuring pencil sketches of Mario and Bowser.
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In Super Mario 64, if Wing Mario’s Wing Cap power runs out in the Tower of the Wing Cap course in such a way that he loses all health upon falling, but then falls off the edge of the tower (top), then he will land in the castle lobby as though he had exited the level normally. However, his health will still be empty, causing him to enter his death animation immediately after falling (bottom).
Japanese print ad for Mario Kart: Super Circuit.
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