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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Licensed “Yoshi with antlers” Christmas ornament.
In Super Mario World, it’s possible to accidentally cause Mario to clip into the wall and lose a life while performing the Spin Jump in areas with many Rotating Blocks by pressing Y and holding either Left or Right on the D-Pad. (Footage recorded by me from a SNES emulator.)
Holiday poster from the German Club Nintendo magazine.
In Yoshi’s Island, the background for Raphael the Raven’s Castle contains several moons. The footage on the left shows the level as it usually looks. It is possible to see the moon through a window before seeing it again in the vertical room on the left of the passage. In the footage on the right, the castle foreground has been disabled, so we can see how the first moon scrolls offscreen and the moon visible in the vertical room is in fact a second moon. (Footage recorded by me in a SNES emulator.)
In Super Mario 64, Goombas’ heads and feet are fully modeled, while their torsos are 2D sprites that always face the camera and are transparent when viewed from the opposite direction. Moving the viewpoint, we can see Goombas from the side (left) and from the back (right).
The music that plays during FLUDD’s introduction scene in Super Mario Sunshine, without the voices and sound effects. (Source)
In the Forest Fortress in Super Mario World, it is possible to defeat a Grinder by sliding into it using the Triangular Block. Since Grinders are not supposed to be defeated, its sprite becomes glitched as it falls offscreen. (Footage recorded by me from a SNES emulator.)
Cover of I am a Teacher: Super Mario Sweater, a sewing simulator program for the Famicom Disk System that offered designs based on characters and items from the Mario series.
The Yoshi’s Island boss Burt the Bashful (top left) wears pants that greatly resemble the pants of the Asterix comic book character Obelix (top right). This has been noted by two separate European localization teams, who decided to give Burt the Bashful names that are anagrams of “Obelix”. He is called “Bélixo” in the French version (bottom left) and “Xilebo” in the German version of the game (bottom right). (Screenshots taken by me in a SNES emulator.)
The Nintendo Express, a bus that toured through Scandinavia in 1990 and offered a variety of Nintendo-related activities.
