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 of Mario, Pauline, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. competing in a quiz show against Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Inky, and Blinky, from Video Games magazine.
Pages 1 and 15 from Nintendo’s 2013 Annual Report.
In Mario Party 7, a dummied-out debug mode containing a character model test
room can still be accessed by modifying addresses in the game’s memory.
Within the test room, every character has a “default pose” that can be displayed by holding down the A button. While for all other characters, this pose is either the generic T-pose or a frame of their idle animation, Mario’s default pose looks like this. (Footage recorded by me from a GC emulator.)
From a commercial for a chain of family clinics in Houston, Texas. (Source)
1989 Super Mario Bros. figurine of Mario kicking a Hammer Bro.
Mario and Princess Daisy from the ending to a Super Mario Land manga.
Supper Mario Broth wishes you a happy Valentine’s Day.
In Super Mario 64, some courses display a wide shot of the area when the game is paused. However, despite the camera angle changing for this, the skybox is not updated, which means that the sky visible in the pause screen depends on the direction the main game camera is facing before the game is paused. In this example, I show how pausing in Lethal Lava Land during a regular camera view results in the sky being red and yellow, but looking down in first-person view results in the sky being completely black. (Footage recorded by me in a Virtual Console emulator.)
A glitch in Super Mario Bros. 3 allows Mario to defeat Pile Driver Micro-Goombas (the hopping block enemies) in an unintended way by simply ducking under them as they land (left) or merely standing still if he is Small Mario (right). Note that this will not work if Mario is touching a wall. (Footage recorded by me in a NES emulator.)
In Luigi’s Mansion, Luigi remarks that he prefers the bottom bunk bed when examining a bunk bed in the Twins’ room (top image). However, in Paper Mario, Page 11 of Luigi’s diary, available only upon revisiting Mario’s house after defeating Bowser, contains a passage where Luigi wishes upon a star to be able to sleep in the top bunk bed (bottom image). The reason for this inconsistency is unknown.
In Mario Party 7, the Koopas in the background of the Control Room menu appear to be handling buttons and levers. However, zooming in on them reveals that they are merely waving their arms around in front of the controls without touching them. (Footage recorded by me in a Gamecube emulator.)
