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A Super Mario variety blog. Screenshots, photos, sprites, gifs, scans and more from all around the world of Super Mario Bros.
In Super Mario Land 2, it is possible to go out of bounds and encounter a landscape made out of…
In Mario Party DS, the Bowser’s Pinball Machine board contains a roulette-themed event. Due to…
Internal DiC Entertainment document detailing an unused premise for an Adventures of Super Mario…
Original graphic welcoming visitors to Nintendo’s official Japanese site in 1997.
Super Mario Sunshine contains an unused enemy called “Dorokuri”, which is a wingless version of the…
Original illustration from an officially licensed “Mario Picture Book Shampoo” from Japan, being a…
For the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, a browser game was available on the official Macy’s…
Official animated announcement video for a 2014 Yoshi’s New Island-themed Flipnote Studio 3D…
In Paper Mario, Kolorado explores Mt. Lavalava alongside Mario and is encountered many times…
The Minsky Pickup is a common musical motif originating in vaudeville numbers, which has appeared a…
In the Super Mario 3D All-Stars version of Super Mario Sunshine, opening up the map screen on a…
In Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story, the Flifit enemies are Snifit/flower hybrids. Using…
1992 promotional poster for DiC Entertainment featuring a variety of their franchises, including the…
Super Mario Galaxy contains an unused model called DemoMario that is nearly identical to Mario….
Unused model of a cubical pig creature, found in the files of the Nintendo Switch version of Captain…
Unused cutaway gag recorded for the Family Guy episode “Prick Up Your Ears”, announcing “Mozart’s…
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels features Hammer Bros. that immediately pursue Mario when they are…
The composer for Hotel Mario, Marc St. Regis, published music from the game on his personal website…
In Mario Party 2, CPU players are so intent on stealing Stars whenever possible - even if they…
In Super Mario 64 DS, Luigi has the ability to briefly run on the surface of water, though he will…
Various original illustrations from a 1989 Japanese guide for Super Mario Bros. 3.
In Super Mario Sunshine, Shadow Mario paints the portal leading to Bianco Hills after the first time…
In World 3-7 of Yoshi’s Island, the bubble-spitting Barney Bubble enemy and the Clawdaddy crab enemy…
Top: officially licensed 1996 Japanese poster for Super Mario RPG.
In Super Mario Odyssey, the final moment of the game before the ending sequence is Mario and Peach…
Top: it is well known among Super Paper Mario enthusiasts that the Korean version of the game…
Top left: this Mario illustration was commonly used in various video game magazines, such as the…
In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, a glitch may occur on the online menu whereby two of the astronaut Toads…
A Mario Paint reference appears in the Homestar Runner game “Dangeresque: The Roomisode…
Super Paper Mario contains unused sprites that seem to depict Mario, Luigi and Mr. L either jumping…
In Super Mario Bros. 3 (shown here in the Super Mario All-Stars version, but applicable to all…
Koopa Troopa voice lines from the Simpsons Game for the Xbox 360. The game contains many parodies of…
In the original Japanese GameCube version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, if glitches are…
In Super Mario Galaxy, Mario’s eyes and hands are a separate model from the rest of his body, so…
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team contains a hidden loading zone in one of the Driftwood Shore areas that…
The files of Super Mario Galaxy contain an unused, oddly mesmerizing object that was supposed to be…
In a curious pattern, the top speed of the initial eight drivers in Diddy Kong Racing scales…
Officially licensed cardboard drawers based on Mario blocks, from Japan.
In Super Mario Odyssey, a New Donker man is sitting on a bench in front of the Crazy Cap store in…
Mario Kart Wii contains a bizarre error on the Mario Circuit track whereby the shadow of one of the…
The cover of a 1992 Chinese book, “Secrets of Researching Video Game Consoles”, features a bizarre…
In Paper Mario: The Origami King, the Fire Vellumental Cave features two rooms where Mario is locked…
Left: the first appearance of Sidestepper, as an enemy in the Mario Bros. arcade in 1983.
Officially licensed 1994 Donkey Kong Country wind-up minecart toy with a customizable jigsaw-style…
In Super Mario Sunshine, there are a variety of glitches that allow Mario to fall down to the death…
For many years, it has been known that the Super Smash Bros. Brawl trophy for the Super Paper Mario…
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle has a bizarre internal naming convention where plaintext files, which…
An interesting character design detail added to the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario RPG…
In Donkey Kong 64, by picking up a barrel in a specific manner, it can remain in mid-air…
Unique graphic depicting Bowser’s Keep from Super Mario RPG before the events of the game, seemingly…
In Super Mario Odyssey, the Luncheon Kingdom features multiple large pots of stew simmering on…
Due to an unexpected interaction in Super Mario World, eating green berries in his own home kills…
Officially licensed 1986 Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (known as “Super Mario Bros. 2” in…
In Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, Sticky Situation is a mission of Gloomy Manor, revolving around…
Mario Kart 64 is well-known for using severe amounts of rubberbanding (the practice of speeding up…
High-quality scans of the 1994 Nintendo Power insert for their promotional Donkey Kong Country VHS…
In a 1997 interview with IGN about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Shigeru Miyamoto stated…
An amusing glitch may occur in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U if Wario’s Final Smash effect (his…
In Donkey Kong Bananza, the Ostrich Bananza Rehearsal post-game challenge features a gliding section…
The 2003 Chinese official trailer of Super Mario 64 for the iQue Player (the China-exclusive…
In Super Mario Bros., a bizarre code oversight results in some enemy types changing species if they…
Officially licensed 2001 “Who’s That Character? It’s Boo” Mario Party 2 collectible card from Japan….
The famous Gangplank Galleon theme from Donkey Kong Country, used later in many different…
In the beginning of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, a scripted battle against Bowser takes place….
Unique two-page spread from a 1994 Japanese Mario character guide, dedicated entirely to artwork of…
Unused starry world map found in development files of Super Mario World. Curiously, this world map…
In Super Mario Bros. 2, thrown enemies or items become glitched if the player character is hurt…
Officially licensed 2019 Super Mario boys’ suit.
According to a 2021 interview with former Retro Studios developer Bryan Walker, who served as Senior…
A glitch may occur at the end of the Bowser Kaboom Squad mode in Super Mario Party Jamboree where…
In Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, the gimmick of the Pi'illodium boss battle is that upon reaching low…
Artwork used for a 1991 officially licensed French Super Mario Bros. 3 poster. While based on…
In Mario Kart 64, the Thwomps in Bowser’s Castle do not merely squash players when they are caught…
Unique dynamic illustration of Mario stomping a Koopa Troopa, from an official 1989 Japanese guide…
The prototype of the game that would eventually become Dr. Mario was called “Virus” and featured…
Players of Super Mario Sunshine may have tried to perform the “Blooper Surfing Safari” mission of…
1990 Italian print ad for various Mario plushes.
The Japanese version of Super Princess Peach contains unused unsetting-looking 3D models of three…
In the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels,…
Officially licensed 1986 Super Mario Bros. 2 (known internationally as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost…
The 2002 Korean Digimon RPG for Windows contained, for an unknown reason, music that is extremely…
In the ScareScraper mode of Luigi’s Mansion 3, it is possible for a Goob to get stuck in a swirling…
High-detail renders of Mario Kart: Double Dash tracks found in a 2003 French Nintendo of Europe…
Top: textures on various walls in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door contain small wanted posters…
In Free Roam mode of Mario Kart World, NPCs will be waiting at train stations to board trains….
Internal concept art for the 2002 Nintendo/Burger King cross-promotion event, featuring hand-drawn…
Top: a common urban legend surrounding Mario Kart 64 concerns this unique Thwomp in a cage on the…
In Super Mario Sunshine, Wind Spirit enemies will spawn when Mario is on the construction side…
Officially licensed 1998 Super Mario 64 ring binder that features what appears to be custom-made…
One of the biggest mysteries of Super Mario RPG development is the “Luigi Feast”, a screenshot that…
Top: Mario Raceway in Mario Kart 64 features cartoonish striped trees. The game’s files contain a…
Top: original concept sketch for a scene from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show cartoon series…
Poster from the Argentinian Club Nintendo magazine, featuring a unique illustration of Donkey Kong…
In an example of extreme irony, it is possible to die from a 1-Up Mushroom in Super Mario Bros. 2.
Unused stadium models found in the files of Super Mario Strikers (please zoom in to view). All of…
Unused expression for Yoshi, found in development files for Yoshi’s Island.
Top: one of the captures in New Donk City in Super Mario Odyssey is a taxi. It cannot be controlled…
Popcorn maker from Japan using a Super Mario World-inspired aesthetic for its packaging. The item is…
Unique illustration on the cover of a 1989 promotional NES brochure, promising ultimate excitement…
In Paper Mario, if Mario’s Spin Jump move is interrupted by a Spy Guy’s slingshot projectile, he…
Rare* 1995 promotional render of a crossover between Donkey Kong Country 2 and the character Fulgore…
In Mario Golf: Super Rush, Wiggler has four body segments, whereby one of them has arms while three…
In Super Mario World, the Forest of Illusion 2 underwater level contains many Rip Van Fish enemies.
Officially licensed 1994 plush keychain of Enguarde the Swordfish from Donkey Kong Country, from…
Top left: in the character selection screen of Super Smash Bros., the icons have a flame image…
In Super Mario Sunshine, the smoke from Corona Mountain briefly stops whenever a Shine Sprite…
Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon contains an unused cutscene of Luigi unlocking the front door of the…
It is very common in 3D games to use in-engine coloring to apply color to objects that is not…
In Super Mario 64, talking to Koopa the Quick stops Mario in his tracks to make him listen to the…
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, it is relatively rare for Mario to become Dizzy since the…
It is well-known that Il Piantissimo from Super Mario Sunshine is secretly a reference to the…
In Super Mario World, the Sunken Ghost Ship features an area where Boos keep appearing and…
Unique front-facing Mario and Luigi sprites from the clock function of the 2020 Game & Watch: Super…
Development files for Yoshi’s Island contain a SNES program (that supported the SNES mouse for…
In Donkey Kong 64, there is a minor code oversight in the Army Dillo boss battle whereby Army…
Yoshi’s New Island contains a “bad ending” that is seen if a player finishes at least one level…
Prototype Nintendo 64 kiosk concepts from internal Nintendo documents, from a point during…
Top: in Super Mario Sunshine, no Shine Sprite is ever placed directly above or in non-shallow…
Officially licensed 1988 capsule machine figurine of Spike from Super Mario Bros. 3 with a unique…
In Mario Kart Tour, the lowest-quality models of the racers that are used whenever they are far away…
In Super Mario 64 DS, the back room connected to the Rec Room features a large window, behind which…
In the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros./The Lost Levels, Bowser has a bizarre…
Unused model of a human (named simply “Human” internally), found in the files of Yoshi’s Woolly…
In Super Mario 64 DS, normally only Mario can get past the Endless Stairs to get to the Bowser in…
Top: the demo mode of Picross 2, the Japan-only sequel for Mario’s Picross on the Game Boy, shows a…
Behind-the-scenes photo of the actors playing Mario and Luigi in the 2014 Japanese Mercedes-Benz…
In Super Mario Party Jamboree, a glitch exists in the “Sandwiched” minigame that will give players…
Promotional photos featuring custom-built Mallow figurines, posted on Nintendo’s official Japanese…
When the Big Bully boss is defeated in the first mission of Lethal Lava Land in Super Mario 64, a…
Cover of a 1997 Super Mario Bros. picture book from Argentina, featuring Mario and other characters…
Officially licensed T-shirt from the Nintendo Power Super Power Supplies catalog, featuring Yoshi…
The Donkey Kong 64 kiosk demo featured three isolated boss battle/minigame scenarios to select from,…
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the “Lucky” sound effect is actually a reference to the…
The files of Luigi’s Mansion contain an unused image of Daisy cropped from official art for Mario…
Due to an oversight in the code of Super Mario Bros. 2, it is possible for the Tryclyde boss to…
Extremely rare early version of a Donkey Kong Country render of Donkey Kong throwing a barrel, seen…
Hey! Pikmin features support for various amiibo in the Mario series. All compatible amiibo appear…
A rare glitch may occur in Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD whereby a Boo may simply clip through the floor and…
Officially licensed 1998 Super Mario World ornament.
Flyer for a 1989 Super Mario Bros. 2 event held in Las Vegas, sponsored by Nintendo of America.
Officially licensed 1991 Santa Mario toy from Japan.
Promotional 1996 Donkey Kong Country 3 Christmas card distributed by Rare.
Promotional photos of latte art featuring the Wonder Flower from Super Mario Bros. Wonder, posted on…
Original animation of Mario, Peach and Bowser stockings posted on Nintendo of America’s official…
In 1986, an official guide called “Family Computer Game Strategy Secret Techniques” was published in…
Officially licensed 2022 Snowman Mario plush from Super Nintendo World in Japan.
In the Daisy’s Field Day minigame in Super Mario Party Jamboree, it is possible for a player to…
Print ad for 1989 Pepsi Nintendo Holiday Game sweepstakes, featuring Mario.
2024 Mario-themed holiday display at the Marunouchi Building skyscraper in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan.
In Super Mario Maker 2, Morton creates floor-following fireballs (with physics resembling the Spark…
Top: the Big Donut is a battle course first featured in Mario Kart 64. While its name refers to…
In Donkey Kong Bananza, the main ability of the Zebra Bananza power-up is being able to run faster…
Officially licensed figurines from Japan, based on Mario and Luigi’s famous “arms folded” renders…
In 1993, a group of Mario, Peach and Yoshi plushes known as the “Color-Me Mario” set were released…
Ludwig von Koopa has been voiced by voice actor David J. Goldfarb since 2014. However, his voice…
In Donkey Kong 64, the Game Over scene shows King K. Rool being successful in his activation of the…
All Mario Kart games have difficulty modes named after engine classes: 50cc, 100cc, 150cc etc. In…
Officially licensed 1994 Donkey Kong Country phone card from Japan with an exceedingly bizarre,…
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the gameplay of Chapter 2 revolves around leading a horde of…
In Super Mario 64, the Lethal Lava Land/Bowser in the Fire Sea skybox is taken from a photo of the…
Officially licensed 2002 Mario Kart corded telephone.
Production images showcasing the early stage of the animation process for the 2023 Super Mario Bros….
In Super Mario Maker 2, collecting an item that emerges from a pipe and throwing a POW Block on the…
Top: during the boss battle against Bowser Jr. in the “Boarding the Airship” level of New Super…
Top left: the sequence in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door where Peach needs to retrieve a Data…
In Super Mario Sunshine, the Monty Mole boss in Noki Bay and Pinna Park shoots Bullet Bills when…
In Free Roam mode in Mario Kart World, the player character celebrates every time a mission is…
Collection of wallpapers available on the official site for the Game Boy Advance version of Donkey…
The files of the Nintendo Switch version of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker contain an unused model…
Promotional 1997 Diddy Kong Racing Christmas card distributed by Rare.
Mario & Luigi: Brothership contains small decorative lizards that appear in the background in the…
Officially licensed 1997 glittery Super Mario 64 jigsaw puzzle from Japan.
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….
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…