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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Officially licensed 2024 Boo-patterned clothes from Japan (“Teresa” being the romanization of テレサ, the Japanese name for Boo).
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Photo posted by Nintendo of America’s official Twitter account in 2017 showing Mario performing a “dab” dance move, with the caption “Dabbing is E for everyone!”
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Mario Artist: Paint Studio was a successor to Mario Paint for the Japan-exclusive 64DD add-on for the Nintendo 64. It supported four-player simultaneous drawing.
This pre-release footage from a 1998 Nintendo company report (with the program being called “Mario Artist: Picture Maker” at the time) showcases a Pikachu being drawn collaboratively by four players.
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Two-page spread from an officially licensed 1995 Mario activity book, depicting Mario being interrupted by Toad while he is about to eat a snack of Yoshi’s Cookies.
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1996 Super Mario RPG-themed Nintendo Power subscription form, featuring a summary of the game (please zoom in to read).
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In Mario Kart Wii, Green Shells and Red Shells break when they hit bananas. However, the same is also true for Spiny Shells (known popularly as Blue Shells). Since Spiny Shells are usually in the air and bananas are usually on the ground, this can only be seen extremely rarely in practice.
For this, a racer must throw a banana backward with perfect timing during a descent from a jump to hit the Spiny Shell in mid-air, as shown with Bowser in the footage (note the blue flash signifying that the Spiny Shell has exploded).
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Original illustration featuring a rare back view of Wart from Super Mario Bros. 2, from an officially licensed 1990 mylar balloon.
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Development files for Super Mario World contain graphics for a shark enemy in a remarkably similar style to the finished game’s dolphins, even using the same basic tail fin shape. Other graphics of these sharks are also found within the same graphics files as the dolphins, further suggesting they were related.
While this is purely speculation, the similar nature of these two entities suggests they could have appeared alongside each other with the sharks acting as a dangerous element to add challenge to the act of jumping from dolphin to dolphin.
If some of the dolphins were replaced with sharks, Mario would not only need to time the jumps to land on the next dolphin, but also to avoid any sharks that would have possibly jumped in the same arc.
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door contains an unused battle event called “btl_un_ufo”, or “Battle Unit UFO”. Note that the graphics of the UFO did not survive, with only the behavior remaining in the files. As such, the UFO was substituted with a Buzzy Beetle and the object it drops with a star.
The UFO would appear above the enemies and drop an object onto one of the enemies. What the object would have done is unknown, as that code has been expunged as well. The only known factor is that the event would appear randomly and choose a random enemy; it is likely that this would grant that enemy some special powers or abilities, or give Mario an extra reward for defeating it.
It is likely that the UFO was supposed to be a Sentinel from Tubba Blubba’s Castle from the original Paper Mario (bottom image), as indicated by the object’s internal name (キャッチャン) that matches up with the name from the original game.
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Collection of small Yoshi figurines hidden at random within officially licensed Mario bath bombs from Japan.
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