Supper Mario Broth
A Super Mario variety blog. Screenshots, photos, sprites, gifs, scans and more from all around the world of Super Mario Bros.
Mario & Luigi: Brothership contains small decorative lizards that appear in the background in the…
The DK Summit track from Mario Kart Wii contains three snowboarding Shy Guys in the half-pipe…
Top: early concept art of Mario’s growth transition sprite from Super Mario Bros. Whenever Mario…
Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash contains an unused, seemingly unfinished medal in its files called…
Top: in New Super Mario Bros., World 7-A contains the game’s only appearance of Squigglers, juvenile…
In Super Mario 64, a variety of glitches can be used to throw items remotely. Instead of being…
Official 2001 Greek VHS release of select episodes of the Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon…
In nearly all of the game styles of Super Mario Maker 2, a maximum of eight pairs of doors can be…
In version 1.1.0 and earlier of Super Mario Odyssey (patched in all subsequent versions), having…
Original illustration used for an officially licensed 1997 Mario Kart 64 jigsaw puzzle from Japan.
Top: animation found in development files for Super Mario World showing an early concept for the…
A common glitch used in speedruns of the GameCube version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is…
Top: original animation from a commercial for the Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. Game & Watches,…
The NES version of Mario Bros. contains an unused incomplete sprite of Mario with blue skin and…
Officially licensed 2025 Yoshi-themed and 1-Up Mushroom-themed drink holders available at Super…
Original illustration used as a design on an officially licensed 1989 Super Mario Bros. 2 T-shirt.
Original animation from the 2005 Japanese commercial for DK King of Swing.
A bizarre glitch may occur with enemies in Mario & Luigi: Brothership whereby they can become…
In Haunty Halls Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy 2, there is a dead tree positioned at the start of the…
Officially licensed Monster Hunter/Mario cross-promotion figurines of Mario and Luigi-themed…
Cover of an officially licensed 1999 Super Mario World picture book from Japan, feauturing original…
An unique functionality of the map screen in two-player mode in Super Mario Bros. 3 is that the…
Picross DS was a 2007 game for the Nintendo DS that, while not overtly Mario-themed, contained a few…
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, the ring platform used for the battle against the Megahammer boss uses a…
An officially licensed 2025 Yoshi plush from Japan reacts to sound by wiggling and making Yoshi…
In Super Mario Sunshine, whenever Mario lands on sand after falling from a great height, he will…
During the Amadeus Wolfgeist boss battle in Luigi’s Mansion 3, a glitch may occur whereby Luigi will…
Unique illustration from a promotional 1997 German Donkey Kong calendar.
Flyer for Nintendo’s booth at the 1990 Consumer Electronics Show.
Early model of Mario with a flesh-colored mustache and hair, as well as no hands, found in the files…
All scrapbook photos from the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario RPG, extracted from the game’s…
Extremely rare officially licensed 1993 Super Mario Kart jigsaw puzzle from Japan, featuring an…
British commercial for a Super Mario Bros./Walkers Crisps cross-promotional campaign, featuring…
In Mario Kart World, trains running on time is the highest priority, so that a train cannot actually…
“Boo-only” officially licensed plush claw machine found in Japan in 2017.
In the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario Galaxy 2, there is a unique glitch where the Beat…
Concept art for Mario & Luigi: Brothership.
The “King Bowser’s Hamburger Steak” dish available at Toadstool Cafe at Super Nintendo World. Please…
Extremely early model of a racetrack found in the files of Mario Kart 7, possibly one of the first…
In the final segment of Rainbow Road in Mario Kart World, a train carrying some of the game’s NPCs…
Officially licensed 1999 Donkey Kong 64 banana-themed Nintendo 64 controller cover.
Extremely rare officially licensed Super Mario World alarm clock from Japan.
In Donkey Kong Country 3, it is possible for objects to become discolored simply by seeing too many…
Bizarre Lakitu variation drawn in the style of the Mario & Luigi series, posted by Masanori Sato,…
Pre-release screenshots of Super Mario RPG suggest that Knife Guy and Grate Guy were intended to…
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, some enemies have special animations for bumping into other enemies…
The back of the North American NES box for Super Mario Bros. 3 makes a bizarre decision to choose to…
In Super Mario 64 DS, specific messages appear whenever the player enters certain courses for the…
Officially licensed 1991 Norwegian Nintendo sticker album featuring original Super Mario Bros….
Splash illustration of Princess Daisy’s shoulder angel and devil, from a 1994 Super Mario Land 2…
In Game & Wario, the “Design” minigame revolves around drawing very precise lines on the Wii U…
Officially licensed 2014 wooden Super Mario Bros. Small Mario sprite clock from Japan.
The “icy” sound from the Ice Cavern in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the same sound as the…
In Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, Bowser Jr. is able to retrieve items by tapping them on the…
Top: the original GameCube version of Luigi’s Mansion included the option to “View a Pikmin™ Movie”…
Concept art of Baby Peach for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie (please zoom in to view details).
In Luigi’s Mansion, if Luigi finishes capturing a Boo while he steps on one of the tiles that switch…
Extremely rare full version of the “Diddy Kong pushing Mario in a minecart” render used in various…
Illustration from an officially licensed 1987 Nintendo wall calendar from Japan, based on the 1986…
In Super Mario Odyssey, objects and NPCs do not react to crates being missing from underneath them,…
Top: bizarrely inaccurate official artwork of the forms of Mario in New Super Mario Bros., used on…
A glitch with the potential to cause extreme frustration exists exclusively in the Nintendo Switch…
Unique unused map screen illustration found in the files of Fortune Street. Note the various…
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, all Fuzzies have a tiny red, white and black cube inside them. The only…
Arranged version of the Super Mario RPG song “Farewell Geno… ~ The Wishes from the Stars” from the…
Top row: unused early trick animations for Peach and Daisy found in the files of Mario Kart Wii.
In the Mustard Café segment of Paper Mario: Color Splash, Huey falls down into quicksand and needs…
Top: the regular ending of Donkey Kong Bananza features an illustration of Pauline performing on the…
Minigame found in the prototype version of Yoshi’s Island that was cut from the finished version,…
In World 6-3 of New Super Mario Bros. 2, this Koopa Troopa will become glitched if the famous…
Large collection of officially licensed 2025 pastel Mario stationery from Japan.
In Super Mario Bros., the way Mario walks into the castles at the end of levels is accomplished in a…
Top: in the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, clipping out of bounds…
Top: Luigi’s house as it appears in Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon/Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD is actually the…
Unique illustration used for an officially licensed 1986 Super Mario Bros. jigsaw puzzle from Japan.
Pages from an officially licensed 1985 Super Mario Bros. activity book from Japan (please zoom in to…
In Mario Kart 8/Deluxe, the idle animation for characters is subtly sped up on the Electrodrome…
In Super Mario Bros. 3, if this Question Block in World 1-Airship is hit when it is passing a…
Top: in Super Mario World and Super Mario Run, Fishin’ Boos are enemies similar to Fishin’ Lakitus,…
Front and back of a promotional 1999 Donkey Kong 64 T-shirt.
Normally, touching a goal or goal-equivalent collectible in Mario games (such as a Power Star)…
Promotional comic for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie.
Bizarre 2005 British print ad for Donkey Konga 2 (please zoom in to read the text).
Getting on top of the highest platform of the Underground Moon Caverns in Super Mario Odyssey using…
Promotional 1994 Donkey Kong store display.
Extremely rare officially licensed 1992 Super Mario World Wiggler plush from Japan.
In Donkey Kong Bananza, NPCs slide out of the way of chunks of solid terrain, which can be used to…
Promotional image of a Thwomp mug available as a prize in a Japanese lottery in 2018.
Illustration of Mario, Pauline and Donkey Kong (alongside Q*bert) from the cover of a 1983 issue of…
Using a third-party turbo controller in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, it is possible to activate a Golden…
In WarioWare: D.I.Y., an Easter egg exists whereby naming a microgame or comic “Mario Paint”…
In Mario Kart World, the mission clear jingle is an arrangement of the ending of the race clear…
The prototype version of Yoshi’s Island contained a unique death message that would be displayed on…
Extremely rare official artwork scene for Super Mario Advance, seen on an officially licensed 2001…
Top: Mario Artist: Paint Studio for the Japan-only Nintendo 64DD add-on for the Nintendo 64 contains…
Original illustrations of Bowser attacking Mario, Peach and Toad’s picnic and eating all their rice…
Top: in an interview with Ted Woolsey, the localizer of Super Mario RPG, he mentions originally…
During the eight mission of Gelato Beach in Super Mario Sunshine, the level is filled with Red…
Officially licensed 1989 Peach pencil topper with a unique distressed expression.
Promotional image for Fire Emblem Heroes used on Nintendo’s official Japanese LINE account,…
An extremely rare and bizarre glitch may occur while waiting for a multiplayer race in Mario Kart…
1995 preview footage for Super Mario 64 showcases an extremely brief moment in which Mario performs…
In the Edit Mode of Super Mario Maker 2, each piece of music consists of 7 separate tracks that fade…
In Yoshi’s Island, if Yoshi hits a ! Switch on the same frame as a previously pressed ! Switch would…
A small detail on the file selection screen in Super Mario Galaxy is that causing the heads…
Upper and lower parts of an officially licensed 1993 Super Mario World ticket redemption arcade…
Various tests for Wonder Effect concepts, from the development of Super Mario Bros. Wonder….
Concept art for Toad for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie.
Bafflingly, despite logical assumptions and visual appearances, moving platforms in Super Mario…
Original illustration of Peach’s Castle from a Super Mario 64 guide from Taiwan.
Officially licensed 1995 Donkey Kong Country pog slammers from Japan. Note the Enguarde one (bottom…
In Super Mario Galaxy, Boos briefly turn transparent whenever Mario performs a Spin near them, which…
The Game & Watch games, as indicated by their name, featured not just the game itself, but also a…
Unused DJ track found in the files of Paper Mario: The Origami King. It resembles the style of…
Unused rainbow goop functionality found in the files of Super Mario Sunshine.
Top: in Paper Mario: Color Splash, the Lemon Thing damages enemies when used in battle, and inflicts…
In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser’s Minions, obtaining the White Chuckola Fruit in…
Left: in the prototype version of Yoshi’s Island, Prince Froggy’s Fort has a bizarre stone idol that…
Set of 2024 officially licensed Luigi-themed merchandise from Japan, featuring glow-in-the-dark Boos…
In Super Mario Advance 4, the World-e that features the e-Reader levels (accessible by default in…
Extremely rough concept art sketch for the 1986 Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission To Rescue…
In Donkey Kong Bananza, Donkey Kong can parry enemy attacks by punching them with precise timing,…
Early concept art for Valentina in Super Mario RPG, shared by the game’s visual effects artist Jiro…
“Wario Busters” is a Mario & Wario-themed arcade game that presumably released in 1994 in Japan,…
Top: cannons that fire the Kongs to bonus rooms are a recurring object in various levels of Donkey…
In Super Mario Galaxy, Spring Mario can normally never sleep, as he always keeps bouncing in that…
Original animation from a 1989 Japanese commercial for officially licensed Super Mario curry.
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, if the player is using the Invisibility badge when meeting Bowser Jr.,…
The person voicing Funky Kong in the Japanese dub of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon series has both…
Joker cards from an officially licensed 1999 Mario Party 2 deck of playing cards from Japan,…
Top: the credits to Mario Kart Wii consists of two parts; the first being a cinematic sequence of…
A Super Mario World manga (left) contained a four-panel gag whereby the Pokeys moving in a parallel…
As is well known, the game known as Super Mario Bros. 2 internationally was originally a non-Mario…
The Donkey Kong Bananalysis stream continues!
In Super Mario Odyssey, the first Power Moon Mario and Cappy are supposed to obtain during regular…
A humorous visual glitch with Rosalina’s galaxy display can occur exclusively in the Nintendo Switch…
Unauthorized Cheep Cheep plush from Japan.
Super Mario Sunshine contains an unused “violent spill” mechanic in its code that, when activated,…
In the character selection menu of Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, Luigi has a unique dance animation…
Reader-submitted artwork from a 2003 issue of the Brazilian Nintendo World magazine, proposing a…
Top: in Super Mario Galaxy 2, rolling Thwomp-like enemies called Rhomps appear on a slide in…
Animal Crossing: New Leaf contains a variety of fortune cookies with fortunes that may be exchanged…
Unique officially licensed 2007 Mario Party 8 deck of cards from Japan. Each card except the jokers…
Donkey Kong 64 contains a unique built-in wireframe mode used for debugging. This is distinct from…
Top: in 1991, a jazz arrangement album for Super Mario World was released in Japan. The arrangements…
Officially licensed 2004 “Everybody Loves an Italian Boy” Mario T-shirt.
In Luigi’s Mansion, the Tea Room contains gravity-swapping panels that are used to first get Luigi…
In Super Mario 64, the texture for the flowerbeds is actually taken from a very small cropped…
Bizarre unauthorized T-shirt depicting a Mario birthday scene with Mario, Toad and a Dark Blue…
Unique loading screen animations used on Nintendo of America’s 2004 official Flash website for…
Mario Tennis for Game Boy Color contains a debug room in its files with characters that each perform…
Super Mario 64 contains a mysterious “WALL” counter with an unknown purpose. On every frame the game…
The original SNES version of Super Mario RPG contains a debug item called “Doom Bomb” that deals 255…
Cover of a 1997 issue of the UK official Nintendo Magazine, featuring original artwork of Mario….
A small animation detail in the Scarescraper mode of Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon/Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD…
Officially licensed “Super Mario Item Nutrition Facts” T-shirt.
In Donkey Kong Bananza, sucking up Liftoff Ore using the Elephant Bananza and then chaining holding…
Gallery of various Art Academy artwork focusing on Yoshi’s New Island, featured on Nintendo of…
In Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, some out of bounds objects have inverted collision, whereby instead of…
In Mario Kart World, it is possible for certain vehicles to become stuck on the poles around the…
Early concepts for Mario sprites from the development of the Donkey Kong arcade in 1981, shown in…
Cover of an officially licensed 1994 Argentinian Super Mario Bros. coloring book, featuring original…
In Super Mario Odyssey, it is possible for Mario to get unloaded entirely, requiring the game to be…
Illustration of Mario and Pauline* from a 1986 issue of the Japanese Family Computer Magazine.
Pages from an officially licensed 1986 Super Mario Bros. coloring book from Japan.
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, it is possible for the player character to become trapped by entering a…
Illustration from a 2001 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine, speculating on a possible…
On the Feast Layer in Donkey Kong Bananza, Donkey Kong must assemble the giant Banana Burger by…
In the finished version of Luigi’s Mansion, lighting up a room in the mansion causes the music to no…
In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, a variety of glitches can occur whenever Mario and Luigi clear a…
Splash page from an official 1992 Japanese guide for Super Mario Land 2.
Concept art for various iconography seen in Toad Town in the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie (please…
There are three different versions of the Japanese Donkey Kong arcade motherboard. On one of them, a…
For performance reasons, the Waluigi Stadium track in Mario Kart: Double Dash becomes emptier in…
At launch, Mario Kart World contained a glitch whereby taking one of the ramps on Mario Circuit and…
Official Donkey Kong Jungle Beat wallpaper available from the game’s Japanese website in 2004….
It’s a new series of Supper Mario Broth livestreams!
Top: Mario mask and gloves used internally at Nintendo of America. Curiously, the mask was…
Designs of Daisy, Mario and Luigi from a manga based on the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie.
Strangely, the motor scooter in Super Mario Odyssey is affected by personalized gravity that does…
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, due to a bizarre internal implementation of Rawk Hawk’s…
In Super Paper Mario, the River Twygz Bed track is infamous for being highly unsettling and…
An obscure detail about the ending of Yoshi’s Story is that the two text boxes shown at the final…
Illustration of Peach growing a sunflower, used for the packaging of a 1993 officially licensed…
Mario being projected onto the side of a building during a GameCube launch party in New York City in…
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, butterfly colors are randomized every time a level is loaded. While the…
Concept art of Donkey Kong and Cranky Kong for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie. In this artwork,…
An unused interaction with Melody Pianissima in Luigi’s Mansion found in the game’s files has her…
An extremely obscure interaction seen in the battle against Brobot L-type in Super Paper Mario is…
Unused sad, floating Mario sprites found in the files of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.
In Super Mario Bros. 3, there is a visual glitch with two frames of the wand whenever Mario clears…
Super Mario Party concept artwork showing a storyboard of Mario and Daisy winning against Yoshi and…
During the introduction of the Mecha-Bowser Mayhem minigame in Mario Power Tennis, Bowser’s Castle…
To save space, the Super Mario Maker 2 logo is not saved internally as an image containing the full…
Top: collecting all 120 Shine Sprites in Super Mario Sunshine rewards the player with a low-quality…
Original illustration from the “Favorite Mario Kart Character” message from Swapdoodle, whereby…
In Mario Kart Wii, the giant Luigi statue in Luigi Circuit has collision that exists purely to…
Left: rare official art of Mario used on a 1994 officially licensed greeting card from Japan.
Modified version of Super Mario Galaxy artwork where Mario normally looks off to the side, changed…
Footage of a Flash game available on the official European website for the Game Boy Advance version…
Various original drawings of Mario, Luigi and Peach from an officially licensed 1987 Mario/Zelda…
In Donkey Kong Bananza, Donkey Kong can create grass in some specific locations, as shown in the…
Unused backgrounds for the Wavy Beach world depicting times of day, found in the files of Super…
A Super Mario World reference was added specifically to the Nintendo Switch version of Undertale,…
During the development of Yoshi’s Island, the Hookbill the Koopa boss was originally envisioned as a…
Storyboard for Donkey Kong Country’s intro from an early point in the game’s development process,…
In Donkey Kong Bananza, the Stompoid enemies attack by jumping, briefly freezing in mid-air while…
Early storyboard for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie.
All illustrations from the Mario vs. Wario story from the officially licensed 1993 “Mario Kirby…
In Paper Mario: The Origami King, internal filenames reveal that the attack whereby Mario hits…
One of Yoshi’s transformations in Yoshi’s Woolly World is Mega Yoshi, whereby he simply becomes very…
Various illustrations from an officially licensed 1985 Super Mario Bros. activity book, featuring…
Single-panel gag from a 1994 Mario manga, in which Mario suddenly turns into his form seen in the…
In Super Mario Land 2, the most efficient way for Mario to move is to duck on every eighth frame…
Closing image from the booklet of the 2015 Japanese official Mario Kart 8 soundtrack, showing a Mach…
Filenames for stickers used on the official Japanese site for Mario Kart World reveal that the…
A well-known glitch in Donkey Kong Country 2 is the Castle Crush glitch, whereby it is possible to…
Mario & Luigi: Brothership contain Bouncy Blooms, platforms that cause Mario and Luigi to enter a…
In Yoshi’s Story, the dragons that the Yoshis can ride in levels 3-1 and 6-4 do not have any proper…
Various extremely early concept art sketches from the design process of Super Mario Odyssey, seen in…
In Donkey Kong Bananza, Donkey Kong whistles a tune when calming down Odd Rock in the beginning of…
If the player makes no input on the title screen of Super Mario Sunshine, a prerecorded demo will…
Cover of a 1998 issue of N64 Gamer magazine, featuring Yoshi.
Concept art for a “Jump Man” arcade cabinet for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie, being a parody of…
In Donkey Kong Bananza, a jingle heard in the Feast Layer theme appears to either be a deliberate…
In Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, Rosalina’s bald head is fully modeled underneath her hair, unlike…
In Super Mario World, it is possible to pass over a Goal Tape without activating it as long as Mario…
A promotional render of Earth from Mario Kart Tour (left) has landmasses that are based on the world…
Please join me on the Supper Mario Broth Twitch channel for a live viewing and subsequent…
Warning signs from Mario Kart World, extracted from the Japanese official site for the game.
Top: the cutscene of Luigi meeting E. Gadd in the beginning of Luigi’s Mansion features E. Gadd…
Original illustrations of Mario, Peach and Link from an officially licensed 1987 Mario/Zelda…
Donkey Kong-e was a port of the NES version of Donkey Kong for the GBA e-Reader. Due to the GBA’s…
In Super Mario Maker 2, by moving a Wiggler in an underwater course around between specific setups…
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the Blewbird enemies appear to be birds, but then shoot out their…
It’s the finale of the Supper Mario Broth Yoshi’s Story streams!
The last regular level of Donkey Kong Country 3, Rocket Rush, features a rocket as a unique gimmick….
In New Super Mario Bros. 2, walking through doors in ghost house levels causes deep blue lighting to…
Artwork used for an officially licensed Donkey Kong Country jigsaw puzzle from Japan.
In Tetris Attack, the scrolling stops whenever the player makes a match. If it did not stop and…
For the two official soundtrack releases for the original and Switch versions of Super Mario RPG,…
Extremely rare officially licensed 1992 British glow-in-the-dark Super Mario World T-shirt.
In Luigi’s Mansion, for a completely unknown reason, Luigi and his Poltergust are not lit by the…
In Super Mario RPG, the collision data for the outside area of the Mushroom Kingdom is much larger…
Officially licensed 1985 Super Mario Bros. sticker depicting Mario defeating a Goomba and a Hammer…
In the Paper Mario series, Monty Moles appeared in Paper Mario before a very long absence from the…
In Mario Kart World, it is possible to change the character’s pose in Snapshot Mode. Doing this…
Unused Tiny Yoshi sprites found in development files for Yoshi’s Island. These were likely an early…
The Supper Mario Broth Yoshi’s Story stream continues!
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, a commonly used trick allows Yoshi to perform infinitely many Flutter Jumps…
Original pixel art of Mario as a detective, extracted from the files of Terebi Denwa: Super Mario…
Officially licensed Swedish 1997 “Super Mario Dance” CD. The CD contained absolutely no Mario music,…
Most characters in Mario & Luigi: Brothership have their irises/pupils modeled on the surface of…
In Donkey Kong Bananza, the small jingle that plays when Odd Rock (who is, of course, Pauline…
Extremely rare real-life Frog Coin available as a limited edition preorder reward for Super Mario…
In the Free Roam mode of Mario Kart World, drivers of vehicles on the roads will stop for the player…
On the cover of the North American release of Donkey Kong Jr. Math, a label reading “EDUCATION…
Rare officially licensed 2000 “Mario presenting a Star” plush from Japan.
All racer sprites from Excitebike: Bun Bun Mario Battle Stadium, an adaptation of Excitebike for the…
In the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario RPG, Boshi never takes off his sunglasses. Removing…
Officially licensed 1994 Super Mario Bros. jigsaw puzzle from Spain, featuring unique artwork.
In Yoshi’s Island (shown here in the Super Mario Advance 3 version but working in the same manner in…
The SNES version of Mario is Missing features unique pixel art backgrounds for all fifteen cities in…
In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, there are graphics for Mario and Luigi being flattened while…
The original SNES version of Super Mario RPG contains an unused enemy attack called “Knock Out” in…
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, placeholder text exists for the letter sent to Mario by Peach after she is…
Top: in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the Star ‘Stache Smash minigame features Piranha Plants…
In Mario Kart World, the Boo item is capable of stealing almost every item except for six specific…
Officially licensed Question Block-shaped soap dispenser from Japan. Notably, the nozzle is shaped…
It is the return of the Supper Mario Broth livestreams!
In Super Mario RPG, Mario can stand on the heads of NPCs, including on a Toad child jumping on his…
Concept art for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie, depicting the Bob-omb Battlefield, Jolly Roger…
There is a curious case of music in Donkey Kong 64 being reused from Banjo-Kazooie that would not be…
At release, a glitch was present in Mario Kart World whereby cancelling a mission just as the player…
The GameCube version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door features random appearances by…
Poster promoting the officially licensed 1992 Super Mario Bros. BYGGIS building block sets from…
In Super Mario 64 DS, the player characters are immune to Bullet Bills whenever they are in the…
In Mario Kart Wii, Koopa Troopa and Dry Bones both have unused wing bones in their models. Since…
Top: a widespread piece of 2D Mario artwork is this group art from the booklet for the 2013 official…
A 1996 Nintendo of America VHS meant to promote the launch of the Nintendo 64 in stores contained a…
The Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door contains a small detail in…
2001 Japanese print ad for Mario Family, a piece of Game Boy software compatible with the Jaguar…
In Paper Mario: Sticker Star, it is possible to exit World 5-2 with precise timing after Mario is…
In Super Mario 64, the bird sounds heard in Peach’s Castle Grounds appear to come from random…
A rare glitch may occur in Mario Kart World if the player joins a lobby at the same time as it is…
Top: a well-known Easter egg in Super Mario 3D Land is the ghostly figure that appears at the end of…
Splash artwork from a 1994 The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening manga, featuring CiaoCiao, one of…
Scans of the booklet of the vinyl edition of the official 1988 “Super Mario Bros. 3 -G.S.M.(FC)…
One of the most obscure enemies in the Mario franchise is the Nyan, an enemy from the highly limited…
Promotional event for the UK launch of Super Mario Galaxy in 2007 where the game’s banner was…
In Paper Mario, most NPCs have their interesting or relevant dialogue focused almost entirely within…
The loading chime from New Super Mario Bros. 2 is not actually a simple looping piece of music….
Officially licensed uncharacteristically cheerful-looking 1991 Magikoopa figurine from Japan.
In the Sacred Forest in Paper Mario: Color Splash, there is an area where the camera performs a…
Unused, partially miscolored sprite of Yoshi accosting Peach with an unknown purpose, found in…
In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, it is possible to bypass Mario and Luigi’s disguises being detected…
In the original SNES version of Super Mario RPG, the blue Toad in the Mushroom Kingdom who has lost…
In Super Mario Maker 2, solid tiles that touch the bottom of the course extend downward infinitely,…
In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, extremely counterintuitively, Yoshi’s Flutter Jump actually goes…
In the Mario Party series, nearly all games refer to the star collectibles as “Stars”, capitalized,…
Officially licensed 1998 Super Mario 64 notebook. Interestingly, instead of simply using the…
Highest-quality available pre-release Donkey Kong 64 footage of the “Junk-in-the-Box” boss from…
Officially licensed 2020 Hot Wheels Cow toy. Five years later, Cow joined the Mario Kart series as a…
In Mario Kart World, using a Bullet Bill will cause it to follow a path calculated to most…
The set of official 2017 Super Mario Bros. stickers for the LINE messaging app mostly animates…
Officially licensed 2025 Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong headband available at the Donkey Kong Country…
Artwork of Kinopio-kun, the former green Toad mascot of Nintendo of Japan’s official LINE account,…
Yoshi’s Island splash artwork from a 1995 Japanese strategy guide.
Mario’s shoes displayed at the Nintendo New York store for a brief time to promote the 2023 Super…
The Nintendo Switch Online emulation of Wario Land 3 is imperfect and may cause issues if the game…
Live-action segments used in the 2015 Japanese commercials for Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (also used…
In Super Mario World, Mario is able to carry two objects at once if they are positioned to almost…
In the Super Mario Bros. game style of Super Mario Maker 2, if a Burner on a curved track pushes a…
According to internal Rare documents shared by Donkey Kong Country designer Gregg Mayles, the name…
Cover of a 1996 issue of the British Nintendo Magazine System magazine, promoting Super Mario 64…
1994 print ad for Donkey Kong Country.
Rare officially licensed 1982 Donkey Kong figurines on display at the National Videogame Museum in…
Super Mario Galaxy 2 contains an unknown variable in Mario’s list of abilities called…
Cover of a 2000 Donkey Kong 64-themed booster pack for the officially licensed Japanese Donkey Kong…
Extremely unique reinterpretation of Luigi (the man in the middle of the top panel) found in an…
Super Mario Odyssey may crash simply as a result of the player being too good at the game.
Limited edition holiday treats available in 2024 at the Toadstool Café at the Super Nintendo World…
An extremely bizarre detail in Mario Kart Wii is that the visual effect for performing a trick is…
High-quality reference images distributed to Nintendo product licensees in the early 1990s, from the…
In Luigi’s Mansion, Luigi does not have the Poltergust until he meets E. Gadd in the Parlor….
Menu screens from “Donkey Kong Country: He Came, He Saw, He Kong-Quered”, a 2013 DVD release of the…
Officially licensed 1986 Super Mario Bros. board game from Japan with custom illustrations (please…
In Donkey Kong Bananza, the Spin Jump is an unlockable skill that can be purchased for 2 Skill…
Bizarre promotional 1997 pin of Mario’s face with the tagline “Ask me How to Dig a Million Bucks”,…
Earliest known sketch of Donkey Kong Jr.’s proposed design for Donkey Kong Country, which was…
A bizarre oversight in Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels results in some…
In Paper Mario: The Origami King, Jean-Pierre Colored Pencils the 12th (better known in-game as…
In Yoshi’s Island, the Fuzzy enemies cause the screen to distort when touched, giving the appearance…
Top: the indestructible material in Donkey Kong Bananza that appears in challenge courses and around…
In Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, a glitch that may occur in some cutscenes after a camera angle…
Officially licensed 2024 Super Mushroom pan from Japan and the resulting pancake prepared with it.
Top and middle: unused official renders depicting two different early versions of the Donkey Kong…
In Super Mario Odyssey, the “MARIO” letters in the park in the Metro Kingdom are not normally…
Concept art for an unused boss design for Super Mario RPG, shared by the game’s visual effects…
Officially licensed calendar page for a 1992-1994 Princess Peach manga, themed around Valentine’s…
In Super Mario 64, the “Shell Mario” glitch is performed by entering a Koopa shell and water on the…
Front and back covers of an officially licensed 1997 Mario/Donkey Kong Country 2 manga activity…
Top: in Super Mario Bros. 3, the Dark Land world map is made out of four separate screens. The third…
Officially licensed 1990 Mario alarm clock using his arms as clock hands.
In both versions of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, when confronting Doopliss in his Mario form…
Drawings of Bowser based on his Super Mario 64 renders, commissioned by Nintendo of America from…
In Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, if Mario performs a Ground Pound onto one of these Ground…
In Donkey Kong Bananza, by investing enough time and not leaving an area or quitting and restarting…
Promotional comic for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie, featuring a Minion from Illumination’s…
The European box art of Art Academy: Home Studio, called “Art Academy: Atelier” in that region,…
Officially licensed capsule machine figurine of Mario, Peach and Luigi from Japan, made of an…
In all versions of Super Mario Bros. 3, gaining P-Speed and crouching shortly before taking off as…
Nintendo employee T-shirt for the Nintendo Cares philanthropic program that includes volunteer work…
Custom-made Lego Mario seen in a 1992 issue of Nintendo Magasinet, the Swedish official Nintendo…
In Mario Kart 64, it is possible to get hit with one’s own Red Shell due to the shell only homing in…
Top: in the Canyon Layer in Donkey Kong Bananza, the artificial sun is actually a banana bunch made…
Top: the Super Mario World manual bizarrely lists a name for a location in the game that has no…
In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, if Mario and Luigi are positioned on a ledge above an enemy in a…
In the original SNES version of Super Mario RPG, performing 100 Super Jumps with the maximum…
1984 flyer for the Nintendo Vs. System arcade cabinet, featuring Mario in various outfits.
In Super Mario Bros. 3, if any Koopalings are killed with a fireball on the same frame as using…
Luma’s voice in all games is provided by Yuya Takezawa. By slowing down the sound bites (here, taken…
Officially licensed 2014 “King Boo knuckles” from Japan.
Extremely bizarre officially licensed 2011 K'NEX “Mario vs. Delfino Oak Tree” playset.
In Donkey Kong Bananza, it is possible to “kill” NPCs, even unique important NPCs such as Grumpy…
In Super Mario Odyssey, if glitches are used to make Mario clip through the ground in New Donk City,…
Logos used for various sections of Nintendo of America’s official 1999 Donkey Kong 64 site,…
Concept art of a Toad for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie, referencing the 1665 painting “Girl with…
On rare occasions in Mario Kart World, it is possible for a Spiny Shell (known colloquially as a…
Officially licensed Yoshi water gun from Japan, featuring a pointing Yoshi figurine on the gun and a…
In Mario Kart World, Free Roam mode does not dispense attack items in Item Boxes. As such, it is not…
In Super Mario Maker 2, whenever a big Goomba, Goombrat, Galoomba or Goombud is stomped, it splits…
Promotional image for the Donkey Kong Country cartoon series, used on Nintendo of Japan’s official…
Illustration depicting a potential epilogue to Super Mario Land 2, from a 1993 issue of the Japanese…
Top: in the Kreepy Krow boss battle in Donkey Kong Country 2, being in team-up mode when a barrel…
Full collection of officially licensed 1996 Yoshi’s Island cards from Japan.
Top: in the Wii U and Nintendo Switch versions of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (though oddly not…
In Super Mario Maker, Yoshi enters a glitched state in the New Super Mario Bros. U game style if he…
Original artwork for the 1996 Nintendo 64 launch announcement print ad, from the personal archives…
Super Mario Sunshine contains an unused object that is a sandbox with terrain that is not…
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, during the post-Chapter 5 Bowser intermission in Twilight…
Yoshi’s New Island is one of the many games that contains the hidden Totaka’s Song Easter egg, due…
Top: in a 1995 developer interview for Yoshi’s Island, Shigeru Miyamoto mentioned that during…
In the finished version of Super Mario Kart, the award ceremony is only displayed when the player…
Development files for Yoshi’s Island contain this bizarre text that appears to be someone’s personal…
In World 2-1 of Super Mario 3D Land, there is an extremely difficult to see Easter egg that requires…
In Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, there is a platform in Gloomy Woods that appears as a completely…
Top: a well-known exploit that is used at the start of nearly every speedrun of Super Mario 64 is…
In Donkey Kong 64, there is a cabin in Crystal Caves that has a rotating interior that can be…
Original painting used for the 1991 “We Just Signed The Biggest Names In Entertainment” trade…
In Super Mario 64 DS, Wario’s “Psyche Out!” minigame consists of trying to guess a card while it is…
During the “Tall Trunk’s Purple Coin Slide” mission of Super Mario Galaxy 2, Mario must make his way…
Officially licensed 2019 Lakitu-themed travel hanger pouch from Japan with a whimsical design.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 contains a number of leftover files from development, alongside test for an…
In Super Mario Bros. 3, whenever Mario collects the 100th coin and his coin counter resets, there is…
Promotional photo for Super Mario Sunshine shoes from a 2020 Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary…
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, enemies can hold badges in battle. While only a fraction of…
In multiplayer mode in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, all players are able to enter a bubble by pressing…
Donkey Kong decoration used at E3 1998.
In Super Mario 64, objects in levels are divided into 20 groups, whereby objects in a group are…
Behind-the-scenes footage of Charles Martinet during his first ever public performance as Mario…
Officially licensed adjustable Chain Chomp desk lamp.
Top: the Aviator outfit as seen in Super Mario Odyssey, from the back.
In Super Mario Maker 2, if a character walks through a door and it is blocked from the other side,…
Original sketch used as the basis for the artwork for the 1981 North American Donkey Kong arcade…
In Super Mario Odyssey, the Broodals’ airship emits diegetic music (i.e. music that actually exists…
Normally, after activating the midway checkpoint Star Barrel in the Mine Cart Carnage level in…
Top: in Mario Kart 64, there are unused “pillar of fire” objects found on the Bowser’s Castle track,…
Top: it is well-known that the in-game version of the Super Mario World logo has a stray pixel…
In both versions of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, there is normally no way to fall off the…
Splash page from a 2006 Mario Kart DS manga, featuring Mario and Bowser.
Original painting used for a promotional poster for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie (please zoom in…
Mario Kart World does not have any measures in place to prevent the camera from clipping into other…
Photo of custom-made Question Block toast, posted in 2018 on Nintendo’s official Japanese LINE…
In both Paper Mario: Sticker Star (top) and Paper Mario: Color Splash (bottom), entering a battle…
A common trick used in speedruns of Super Mario 64 is obtaining the “Behind Chain Chomp’s Gate” star…
Officially licensed 1990 “Yoshi Tongue Whip” toy from Japan, including a custom illustration of its…
Arranged version of the Super Mario RPG song “Beware of Forest Mushrooms” from the composer Yoko…
Top: in the Darker Side post-game area in Super Mario Odyssey, one challenge consists of capturing…
Internal files for Mario Kart Wii reveal that testing for the game’s Mii racer functionality was…
Various suggestions for Diddy Kong’s and Dixie Kong’s hat logos...
In Luigi’s Mansion 3, Luigi needs to rescue various Toads trapped in paintings by King Boo by…
Officially licensed 1992 Super Mario Kart “ball race” board game from Japan. The objective of the…
On the Bowser Land board in Mario Party 2, the various interaction points (the bank, the parade…
In the Bowser’s Fury mode of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, Fury Bowser has an extremely…
Full instructions on how to cook Wario Bento, from an unlockable souvenir in Game & Wario.
In the “Buried Treasure” minigame in Mario Party, the treasure chest can only spawn in the blue dots…
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the Yoshi Kid’s Gulp attack involves licking up an enemy and…
Covers of 1993/1994 Italian VHS releases of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show cartoon series,…
Full original render of the famous “Donkey Kong Country: The Legend of the Crystal Coconut” DVD…
Top: in Mario Kart 64, the giant rotating Yoshi egg on the Yoshi Valley track is not actually 3D…
A bizarre “wrong warp” glitch can occur in the Pot Hole Panic level of Donkey Kong Country 3 whereby…
Test image that appears for a fraction of a second during a series of tests performed by a 2003…
In Mario Kart World, planes that dispense Item Boxes that glide down on parachutes randomly appear…
Officially licensed 2022 sets of Mario place mats and paper plates from Japan. The paper plates have…
Mario holding up an issue of the British Nintendo Official Magazine for a 1998 subscription…
Australian Super Mario 64 poster.
Nintendo Power brochure with unique illustrations referencing the first encounter with a Bomber Bill…
Top: in The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, shown here in the Nintendo Switch version, the…
Original collage and sketches from the design process for the box art for Mario’s Game Gallery…
In Super Mario Maker 2, the New Super Mario Bros. U-style Angry Sun with its distinctive inscrutable…
In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, a glitch can occur with the Shy Guys fought in Bowser’s Castle…
Unseen spinning animation for Frog Mario in Super Mario Bros. 3. A single tornado appears in the…
Top: in Mario Kart DS, the Pipe Plaza battle course looks very similar to its original appearance in…
Officially licensed 2025 Bowser hat from Japan.
In Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels and its Super Mario All-Stars version, there is a “brother…
An Easter egg in Mario Kart 8/Deluxe that is extremely situational and thus easy to never experience…
In the Japanese version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (both original GameCube and Switch…
In Donkey Kong Country, there is a glitch with Really Gnawty, the boss of the Gorilla Glacier world,…
Promotional shirt given out to participants in the audience during the filming of the obscure 1989…
Animation cel for a deleted scene from the “Mama Luigi” episode of the Super Mario World cartoon…
In Super Mario Odyssey, the trees in the Mushroom Kingdom room that is a recreation of the courtyard…
Officially licensed 2000 Donkey Kong Country cartoon series plush with a unique expression, from…
In modern Mario Kart series games, an advanced technique to escape a Spiny Shell is to use a…
In February 2025, the Nintendo Tokyo store has begun selling officially licensed plastic food…
Donkey Kong-themed “relationship tip for gamers” posted on Nintendo’s official Facebook account in…
Officially licensed 2025 Donkey Kong banana stand from Japan.
In Super Mario 64 DS, there is a way to always force two glowing rabbits to appear in the courtyard…
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, a bizarre glitch results in King K. Rool briefly facing the wrong…
Promotional artwork for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Top left: the Mario Circuit 3 course, as it appears in Super Mario Kart.
Segments from a 2012 Mario Tennis Open trailer showing Mario being bad at tennis before going…
In Paper Mario, during the Peach interlude between Chapter 6 and Chapter 7, Peach is able to use the…
Set of officially licensed 1994 Super Mario World plushes from Japan with particularly squat…
In the Free Roam mode of Mario Kart World, a spot exists on the Dry Bones Burnout track where the…
Segments of Mario dancing, from the official 1992 music video for the Super Mario Land rap by…
In Tall Trunk Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy 2, the central planet with a giant tree can sometimes be…
Concept art for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie.
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, a combination of the Bubble Flower and the Boosting Spin Jump badge…
In Super Mario Odyssey, the Tail Tree from Super Mario 3D Land can be found in the Mushroom Kingdom.
In Yoshi’s Story, the spiked stone block carried by the Black Fly Guys actually has a Thwomp-like…
In the 1980s, the Japanese Famitsu magazine would feature custom-drawn comics illustrating various…
Bizarre pin promoting a 1992 French video game competition benefiting lung health, depicting Raccoon…
Concept art for Mario Power Tennis, found in a 2004 official Japanese guide for the game (please…
Mario Kart World has an extremely aggressive implementation of Lakitu to prevent abuse of the…
Unique animated segment from a promotional video for the Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary event in…
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, several factors combine to create a unique way to collect arbitrarily…
Internal Nintendo video documenting the process of creating a 2019 web ad for Nintendo 3DS games.
Ending panel from a 1992 Super Mario World manga, showing the game’s cast posing for a picture…
Officially licensed 2018 Donkey Kong hand puppet.
Super Donkey was a platformer that was in development for the SNES from 1991 to 1992, parts of which…
It is possible that the Moleville theme in Super Mario RPG is a reference to a classical music piece…
Trade magazine showcase for a line of cancelled 1999 “Mario’s World” Nintendo action figures.
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the Pit of 100 Trials does not actually consist of 100…
After the release of Super Mario Odyssey, there have been many reported, and multiple documented,…
It was recently discovered that the Spin Dash move from Paper Mario has actually been there, unused,…
In Donkey Kong 64, the Kremling Krusha is an unlockable character in multiplayer mode, but cannot be…
In Super Mario 64, the “Blast Away the Wall” star is notorious for being difficult to find for some…
Unique 3D animated segment from a 2005 Japanese commercial for the GBA version of Donkey Kong…
In a 2010 interview, Koji Kondo related a story of how when he met Paul McCartney of the Beatles,…
Frenetic advertising video that was played on screens nonstop in the Nintendo New York store (known…
In Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, the bonus missions in each mansion all play their own arrangement of…
A special feature in a 1986 issue of the Japanese Famitsu magazine had a yogi (yoga practitioner)…
In Level 7-1 of New Super Mario Bros., striped swinging poles can be found in a bonus room. If Mario…
Extremely rare Japan-only 1992 Super Mario World popcorn machine, featuring original artwork of…
Most games that have a dialogue system making use of more than one text style have an internal…
In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the incident that starts off the story is that Peach’s voice has…