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 Peach from a 1988 Super Mario manga.
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Promotional Japanese 2005 T-shirt of Sonic saying “20th HAPPY MARIO!” for the Super Mario Bros. 20th anniversary, distributed by Sega.
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Top: whenever the hour changes in the clock mode of Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros., various Yoshis appear and break the blocks forming the numbers to be replaced.
Bottom: an illustration of this from the original patent document for the device. Here, the Yoshis are represented by what appears to be simplistic llamas on wheels.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the default message that appears when activating an event that includes a speech bubble, but does not have associated text specified is “No messages.[English]”.
However, there is exactly one such message that is different from the others in that it consists half of a regular message and half of an error message. If glitches are used to get into the champion’s room in the Glitz Pit while still in the minor league and reserve a match, the description for the match will be “The promoter asks that you [No messages.[English]].”
Mario will then be trapped in that room forever as no one will ever come to escort him to the match.
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Mario Super Sluggers contains unused skating animations for every playable character. Here are some of the animations. It is possible that these were supposed to be used for some sort of special ice skating state for the Peach Ice Garden field.
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The music that plays in the warp pipe at the entrance to Super Nintendo World, taken from internal park documentation. This is the only piece of completely original music composed for the park, with all others being merely arrangements of preexisting pieces.
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In Paper Mario, if an NPC is close to a wall, it is very easy for Mario to jump between it and the wall and clip through the wall in this manner. As such, the developers placed most NPCs a respectable distance away from walls. However, a glitch exists that allows Mario to very slowly move NPCs.
Top: for this, Mario must spin into the NPC with Speedy Spin and hit it with the Ultra Hammer on a specific frame after Bombette falls after exploding. This will only move the NPCs a nearly impercibly small amount (note the short distance the green Bob-omb has moved after Mario performs this three times; compare the beginning and end of the loop).
Bottom: however, with enough patience, the NPC can be moved any distance along flat ground. Here, Mario has moved the Bob-omb enough so that he can jump between it and the wall and clip through.
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Top: one of the concepts for an unused Wonder effect in Super Mario Bros. Wonder was Mario riding on top of a giant Goomba.
Bottom: a similar scenario has appeared in one of the event matches in Super Smash Bros. Melee (though the Goomba there is merely a giant version of a Goomba trophy and as such inanimate). Whether the Wonder effect was created partially in reference to this or whether this is a complete coincidence is unknown.
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Various pages from the official coloring book for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie.
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Full commercial for an officially licensed Mario and Yoshi remote-controlled toy from Japan.
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