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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Footage of a lost Flash game available on the official European website for the Game Boy Advance version of Donkey Kong Country in 2003. Note how Donkey Kong has no animation whatsoever and merely slides around instead of moving naturally.
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Left: rare official art of Mario used on a 1994 officially licensed greeting card from Japan.
Right: interestingly, this artwork was referenced in a set of drawings made for official 2017 Japan Post stamps, whereby Mario is seen in a similar chair next to a similar lamp, reading a letter very clearly implied to be from Peach (as she is seen writing a letter in a different illustration in the set).
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In Donkey Kong Bananza, Donkey Kong can create grass in some specific locations, as shown in the footage. Note new grass appearing whenever he performs a Hand Slap.
The underlying reason for this is that a Hand Slap slightly modifies the height of surrounding soft terrain. Whenever grass, dirt or other soft terrain is used to cover indestructible terrain, a layer of it is put underneath the indestructible part that protrudes upward in the parts where it is meant to be visible.
After destroying the grass and then using the Hand Slap, the underlying layer is brought back to the surface above the indestructible part, causing Donkey Kong to appear to have the magical ability to create grass.
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Various original drawings of Mario, Luigi and Peach from an officially licensed 1987 Mario/Zelda activity book from Japan.
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A Super Mario World reference was added specifically to the Nintendo Switch version of Undertale, whereby getting to the end of the Mad Mew Mew battle without being hit once will cause her to say “That was Gnarly! Tubular! Way Cool! Awesome! Groovy! Mondo! Outrageous! Funky!”, listing the eight levels of the Special Zone of Super Mario World (bottom).
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During the development of Yoshi’s Island, the Hookbill the Koopa boss was originally envisioned as a unique Koopa/Birdo hybrid creature that would shoot projectiles from its mouth like a Birdo, but also had a big shell like a Koopa.
The game’s prototype version contains behavior for this boss, but not the correct graphics; however, development files provide the graphical assets for it as well. By inserting the files into the prototype, the boss can be largely restored, as seen in the footage.
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In Donkey Kong Bananza, the Stompoid enemies attack by jumping, briefly freezing in mid-air while preparing an attack to give the player an opportunity to dodge, and finally coming down with a stomp.
If a Stompoid is hit with a chunk of concrete in a precise manner during the stomp preparation part of its attack, a glitch will occur whereby it will shoot upward and keep going up indefinitely, eventually despawning.
This has the humorous appearance of the Stompoid preparing a jump but simply never coming down, as seen in the footage.
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Storyboard for Donkey Kong Country’s intro from an early point in the game’s development process, showing the Kremlings stealing the Banana Hoard.
Due to time constraints, the finished game contains no intro whatsoever, and the explanation of the story was delegated entirely to the game’s manual. Later, a cutscene loosely based on this was finally added to the Game Boy Advance version of the game.
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