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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Super Mario Galaxy contains various decorative fish that are difficult to see up-close in-game due to first-person view not being available underwater. These consist of four types of regular fish and two deliberately unsettling fish that appear only in the spooky Bigmouth Galaxy and Deep Dark Galaxy areas.
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Mario Kart Wii contains a bizarre unused function called “rk_snowTest”, presumably meant to test snow, that concentrates every single snowflake in the course above the player character in a line. Note the thin vertical line of snowflakes above Koopa Troopa in the footage.
As that in no way represents how snow should actually appear or behave, it is unclear how displaying it in this manner could have possibly helped to test its functionality.
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Unauthorized severely deformed Goomba plush with its face being upside-down in relation to its body. As it is already illegally using a “Super Mario” tag, it is unlikely that the manufacturer wished to somehow avoid any copyright dispute by modifying the design, and instead simply made an error while attempting to recreate a plausible Goomba plush.
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E3 2000 footage of Paper Mario contains a very peculiar name tag for an enemy. During a battle against a Spiked Gloomba, its name is briefly seen, which is ちかトゲクリ(サンタ).
The first part is apparently an early name for Spiked Gloombas, which translates to “underground” followed by a shortening of “Spiked Goomba”; equivalent to e.g. “Underground Spikegoom” in English.
The second part is the one that is notable, as it translates to “(Santa)”. What this might mean is unknown; no other Spiked Gloombas are seen to compare their names to see if they would also be Santa, nor is any special behavior noticeable that would explain the name. In the finished game, no connections between Santa and Spiked Gloombas is ever made in any language.
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In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a specific Boo in Level 4-Ghost House is positioned precisely so that running directly to the left wall when entering its room will result in it becoming trapped in a state of eternal oscillation between hiding and revealing its face.
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Extremely rare officially licensed 1990 Yoshi juggling toy from Japan. Note his body being curled inward to create a shape that is easier to hold and throw.
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Unused early Peach and Daisy models found in the files of Mario Superstar Baseball. The white coloration of the dresses makes them resemble Fire Peach and Fire Daisy, though this is likely not by design and merely a result of missing in-engine coloration data.
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Top: in Donkey Kong Country, the Master Necky boss is a bird whose main body is never seen. Instead, merely its head and neck appear from offscreen, being able to instantly switch what side of the screen it appears from.
Bottom: an official Japanese guide for the game contains a humorous illustration where Donkey Kong theorizes that the only way this is possible is if Master Necky actually has two heads, and each is simply hiding behind its own side of the screen.
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Cover of a 2017 issue of the Spanish Edge magazine, featuring an original Super Mario Odyssey illustration.
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Original illustrations of Mario in Hazy Maze Cave, from an official 1996 Japanese guide for Super Mario 64.
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