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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.
Demonstration of the officially licensed 1993 Super Mario World version of the Pop-up Pirate game,…
In Super Mario World, if Mario is pushed off a moving rope by it moving against a solid wall, he…
Original redrawn version of Super Mario Sunshine official art with more dynamic shading, from a 2002…
In Super Mario Odyssey, there is a Bonneter guarding a Power Moon in the Cap Kingdom who can be…
Original storyboards for the Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon episode “Mush-Rumors” (please…
In Super Paper Mario, it is possible to die while talking to Old Man Watchitt in Yold Town in…
Promotional T-shirt for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie.
In Super Mario Bros. 3, a glitch has a small chance of occurring organically during regular gameplay…
Officially licensed 1993 Super Mario Kart inflatable kart from Japan.
2017 platformer A Hat in Time contains an unused model that appears to be heavily inspired by…
In the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass, driving too wildly within the tube near the…
Concept art for “Roo”, an unused kangaroo character originally planned for Diddy Kong Racing that…
Endurance Alley is an extremely lengthy single-player game mode in Mario Party 6 where the player is…
Internal document detailing a proposal for Super Mario Galaxy maps submitted by 99 Lives Design, a…
Envelope used for a Nintendo Power subscription renewal reminder, featuring a unique artwork of…
Top: an interview in the official 2001 Nintendo Power Luigi’s Mansion guide reveals that one of the…
In Super Mario Maker 2, if the player character is positioned perfectly underneath a P-Switch…
Extremely rare officially licensed 1993 Super Mario Kart necktie.
In World 6-Fortress 2 in Super Mario Bros. 3 (shown here in the Super Mario All-Stars version), Boom…
Extremely rare leather-bound notepad with an embossed Mario design given out to senior employees of…
Cover of a 1993 issue of the Japanese Famitsu magazine, featuring an original illustration of the…
Artwork of Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong’s end-of-level animations seen in Donkey Kong Country 2, drawn…
Luigi and Daisy illustration featured in a 2004 issue of the Japanese Nintendo Dream magazine.
Officially licensed Piranha Plant-themed grabber, available at Super Nintendo World in Japan.
In Version 1.0 of Super Mario Odyssey, a combination of tricks and glitches can be used to skip the…
Back cover of the “Behind the Scenes” book included with the 30th anniversary Umbrella Blu-ray…
Promotional photo of the official Mario and Yoshi cosplayer at the Nintendo booth at the Summer…
In the second mission of Noki Bay in Super Mario Sunshine, Mario fights Gooper Blooper on top of a…
Extremely rare officially licensed 1982 Donkey Kong trashcan, featuring both a rendition of the…
2006 print ad for Mario Hoops 3-on-3 and the Nintendo DS Lite.
Early concept art of a scenario for New Donk City in Super Mario Odyssey, where a cat is holding a…
In Super Mario Galaxy, Boo Mario turns back into regular Mario automatically upon using a Launch…
In a 1993 issue of the Japanese Famitsu magazine, the staff contacted Nintendo Japan with questions…
In Donkey Kong Country, a bizarre glitch can happen when riding Enguarde and collecting an Animal…
In the Spin-Dig Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy 2, a large square planetoid is featured in the second…
Left: one of the releases of Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600 features a box art that seemingly has…
“Donkey Kong: The Poster Game Version”, included as a Nintendo cross-promotion in boxes of Cocoa and…
In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, blending new drinks at the Starbeans Cafe causes E. Gadd to appear…
In Super Mario Odyssey, a bizarre crash can occur simply by continuously capturing and uncapturing…
Six different Luma-themed popcorn buckets available at early showings of the Super Mario Galaxy…
In Maro Golf: Toadstool Tour, bouncy mushrooms can affect the physics of the ball in unusual,…
Mario Artist: Polygon Studio was an entry in the Mario Artist series for the Japan-only 64DD add-on…
In the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, various severe glitches exist…
In Super Mario Odyssey, it is possible to access the mainland of the Luncheon Kingdom early by…
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is well-known for using Mario elements to a much greater…
Many Mario games feature the 1-Up chain mechanic whereby stomping an enemy once gets e.g. 100…
Officially licensed “Yoshi dreaming about an apple” cap, available at Super Nintendo World in Japan….
Top: a brief scene in the intro to Donkey Kong 64 shows Diddy Kong, Tiny Kong, Lanky Kong and Chunky…
For an unknown reason, there is an odd continuity discrepancy regarding Rosalina in Super Mario…
The Rosalina & Lumas amiibo features Rosalina reading from the storybook seen in Super Mario Galaxy….
Giant inflatable Mario at a 1993 festival held by Human Creative School, one of Japan’s earliest…
At E3 2003, an official Jimmy T cosplayer took pictures with visitors at the Nintendo booth and gave…
In the “Chain Chomp’s Bath” mission of Pianta Village in Super Mario Sunshine, the aim is to get a…
Top: illustration in a 2003 issue of the Japanese Nintendo Dream magazine, reimagining one of the…
It is well-known that Luigi and Peach can skip the cave segment in World 1-1 of Super Mario Bros. 2…
Reader-submitted comic from a 1993 issue of the Japanese Famitsu magazine, showing Mario talking to…
Mario-themed area at the 2026 Taiwan Lantern Festival, called “Star Festival” in honor of the Star…
Sand sculpture promoting the Super Mario Galaxy Movie at the 2026 Australian Sand Sculpting…
The prototype version of Donkey Kong 64 has a bizarre quirk for Lanky Kong whereby he will always…
Extremely rare officially licensed 1989 Super Mario Bros. 2 T-shirt showing Mario performing a…
The official 1998 Yoshi’s Story Japanese guide features original comic pages depicting the intro of…
Original drawing used for the cover of the “Super Mario Bros.: Favorite Mushroom Party Hits!”…
In Super Mario Odyssey, an extremely bizarre glitch may occur when clipping out of bounds during the…
Cover of a 1993 issue of the Cracked magazine, featuring the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie.
Color blindness test from a 1992 issue of the Japanese Famitsu magazine, asking the viewer to…
In Super Mario 64 DS, pressing the button to start reading a sign on the same frame that it is…
Officially licensed 1990 “Super Mario Bros. Touchdown!” children’s pajama shirt with a unique…
Mario on the cover of a 1999 issue of a warehouse management trade magazine, shown off in a Nintendo…
Original illustration of King K. Rool (in his Kaptain K. Rool persona from Donkey Kong Country 2)…
Officially licensed 2026 Luma bubble bars from a Nintendo/Lush collaboration for the Super Mario…
In Donkey Kong Country, picking up a barrel with Diddy Kong, throwing it, catching up to it before…
In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, it is possible to reach a ledge that the developers did not intend…
Illustration of Mario running away from Bull’s-Eye Bills (known as “Missile Bills” at the time) in a…
In Super Mario World, Mario can only move along specific predetermined paths in the overworld. Due…
King Koopa’s Kool Kartoons was a 1989 live-action children’s TV show featuring an actor in a King…
In Super Mario Bros. 2, logs being washed down a waterfall appear in various places in the game. In…
In Mario Kart World, NPC vehicles can be briefly launched in the air via explosions or the use of…
Development files for Super Mario 64 contain a variety of early versions of the title screen logo…
An unused test room in the files of Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story + Bowser Jr.’s Journey is…
Original Super Mario Bros. illustration from a 1986 issue of the Japanese Famitsu magazine.
Page from an officially licensed 1989 Super Mario Bros. activity book that claims that “Mario is a…
In Super Mario World, shelled enemies like Koopa Troopas and Buzzy Beetles can be flipped…
Top: extremely rare officially licensed 1998 Mario Party “Toad with visible legs” trading card.
Cover of a Danish music album for the Danish version of the Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3…
Set of experimental Mario-themed overalls, each designed by a different fashion designer, auctioned…
The prototype of the GBA version of Donkey Kong Country 3 contained a highly bizarre “Kong…
In the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario RPG, the models for the Big Troopa and Grand Troopa…
Super Donkey was a platformer that was in development for the SNES from 1991 to 1992, parts of which…
A glitch may occur in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate if Mario is fighting Simon.
In a video posted on his social media accounts, Donkey Kong Country character designer Kevin Bayliss…
Diskun was a mascot for the Famicom Disk System, a Japan-only add-on for the Famicom. He was…
Cover of an official 1992 Japanese guide for Super Mario Land 2, featuring an original illustration.
In Super Mario Kart, items work differently for CPU-controlled opponents than in later games in the…
In Paper Mario: The Origami King, one of the phases of the final boss battle features King Olly…
The Toy Time Galaxy theme from Super Mario Galaxy and the Supermassive Galaxy theme from Super Mario…
In Super Mario Sunshine, if Mario recovers from a slide onto a non-slippery slope, he will be able…
Immensely rare Super Star plush from a limited edition 1996 Super Mario RPG plush set from Japan.
A 2004 issue of the Japanese Nintendo Dream magazine featured concept art for various Power Shots…
“IceMan” is an unused enemy found in the files of Super Mario Galaxy, likely intended to be a boss….
Giant Punch, Donkey Kong’s neutral special move in the Super Smash Bros. series, is not explicitly…
In Mario Kart Wii, Luigi Circuit is the only track that contains a duplicate collision plane…
“Mario Factory” was a group of arcades/entertainment centers with gift shops that operated in…
Top: 1994 concept documents for Donkey Kong Country 2 feature an idea for silhouette levels, whereby…
An obscure unintended technique in Super Mario World is the Yoshi trampoline double jump. If Mario…
Four-panel comic from the official 1991 Japanese guide for Super Mario World, depicting Mario as…
A glitch commonly used in speedruns of Paper Mario is clipping out of bounds using an NPC. Some NPCs…
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, NPCs who award Mario with items have special failsafes for…
Commemorative 1991 phone card (as an insert in an egg-shaped greeting card) depicting a…
The credits of the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie list Getty Images for stock photography provided….
Artwork used for an officially licensed 1995 Yoshi’s Island jigsaw puzzle from Japan.
In Super Mario 64, causing a star to spawn while dying will cause the game to become unplayable,…
Cover of the official 1991 Japanese guide for the SNES version of SimCity, featuring the Statue of…
The Luigi Ladder is a technique used in Super Smash Bros. Melee (though possible to perform to…
Mario Factory was a program available for the Game Processor, a Super Famicom development kit, in…
The Mario Kart games make extensive use of low-quality models that replace racers when they are far…
Print ad for officially licensed 1986 Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 (known internationally as Super…
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, there is a hidden room in Rogueport Sewers with three Shine…
A variety of very glitched behaviors can be observed with Buzzy Beetles walking on Brick Blocks in…
Board game pieces for cutting out, featuring Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser and the Shogaku Ichinensei…
Super Mario Sunshine splash page from a 2002 issue of the Nintendo Dream magazine.
Donkey Kong statue found at the headquarters of Bergsala (the company operating as the official…
Cover of an officially licensed Super Mario Bros. sticker album from Colombia.
The 1982 manual for the Colecovision version of Donkey Kong features a unique illustration of Mario,…
Top: a piece of Super Mario Bros. concept art features a variety of early and unused sprites for…
Top: the forest section of the DS Mario Circuit track as it appears in the Booster Course Pass DLC…
Top: rare Donkey Kong decoration seen in a 1996 episode of the Mexican Nintendomanía TV show.
Rare officially licensed 1998 toy Mario phone from Japan.
Unused “Several Toadsworths” test room found in the files of Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story +…
In Mario Kart: Super Circuit, if a player crosses the finish line while spinning out and touching…
Top: in Super Mario Odyssey, when Mario falls asleep in most outdoor areas, a bird will land on his…
In Super Mario Sunshine, water rockets are items that appear only during the rollercoaster segments…
An Electronic Games Magazine pre-release poster for Super Mario Sunshine features this unique render…
A 1991 Toys “R” Us commercial featured live-action footage with video games superimposed over it, to…
Set of promotional 1983 Donkey Kong Jr. perfumed erasers from Japan. What they originally smelled…
Article in an Italian gaming magazine about a 1983 US trade magazine ad notifying makers of…
The Donkey Kong Country series games rely on never having too many different objects on screen at…
Concept art for an unused Mario customization option for Sackboy, the playable character of…
Animations for TicoJii, an unused character found in the files of Super Mario Galaxy. He appears to…
The North American box art for Super Mario Bros. features pixel art of Fire Mario, which is for an…
Extremely rare 2005 Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix store display.
Donkey Kong’s model in Super Smash Bros. is notable among other 3D Donkey Kong models due to…
Top: Super Mario 64 is the first game that lists Princess Peach’s name as “Peach Toadstool”, being…
Extremely rare prototype version of the golden Mario statues used as decoration in various stores in…
A bizarre glitch may occur in the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost…
The 2013 Nintendo company booklet features an extremely expansive collage of tiny square images on…
Top: in Super Mario 3D Land, the cutscene at the beginning of World 3 has geometric mountains in the…
When reaching the player selection step in the menu of Mario Tennis for the Nintendo 64, the host…
Illustration from a 2001 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine, featuring Mario and Sonic as…
In Super Mario Bros. 3 (shown here in the Super Mario All-Stars version), Donut Blocks begin…
Splash page of a faint Mario head in a beret, labeled “FUTURE”, from the 1998 Nintendo Japan company…
Officially licensed 1986 Super Mario Bros. jigsaw puzzle from Japan (top: illustration provided with…
Officially licensed 2008 Dr. Mario boxer shorts.
Top: the manual for Wario Blast contains a secret password. The tiny screenshot next to the section…
Mario Kart Tour uses automatically-generated low-quality models to be used when drivers are too far…
Mini-feature on “Mario’s lesser-known friends and foes” from the 2026 Guinness World Records Gamer’s…
Mario Kart: Super Circuit is the only game in the Mario Kart series in which it is possible to “tire…
According to Rare engineer Paul Machacek, he had been working on a possible Donkey Kong Country port…
Top: a well-known trick in Super Mario Bros. 3 (shown here in the Super Mario All-Stars version) is…
Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast concept art for a female Kremling character named Kressa/クレッサ (left),…
In the Rickety Race level of Donkey Kong Country 2, Diddy Kong and/or Dixie Kong need to ride a…
Title card for an episode of Satella-Q, a 1997 quiz show broadcast over the Satellaview add-on for…
Extremely rare 1999 “Wha hoo hoo!” ball from Spain. This ball features the rare and bizarre spelling…
Stereoscopic images from an officially licensed 1989 set of Super Mario Bros. 2 View-Master reels,…
Officially licensed 2016 cardboard dividers from Japan, featuring “Mario Pikachu” from a…
In Mario Kart World, the trains that periodically pass on the various railroads in the world…
Super Mario World contains an obscure glitch that may make the game unplayable which is both very…
Unused model named “IceCube” found in the files of Super Mario Galaxy. It depicts a seemingly evil…
Public art installation featuring Mario, exhibited at the Italian town of Pietrasanta in 2025. The…
A classic physics glitch seen in many 3D game engines occurs when two objects clip into each other,…
Officially licensed Bowser watch from Japan with a glow-in-the-dark design.
“Super Donkey” was the name of an unreleased project that was developed between 1991 and 1992 for…
Top: the Super Mario 64 box art.
2005 Walmart ad for GameCube games, featuring Donkey Kong, a snowboarding Luigi, three Pink Boos and…
Cover of “Mario’s Adventure Land”, an officially licensed 1999 Mario adventure book that uniquely…
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, it is possible to have followers like Prof. Frankly keep…
Bizarre design from an officially licensed 1989 Nintendo T-shirt. The object Mario and Toad are…
In video game development, “attract mode” refers to a state a game enters when left without input on…
Story summary from a 1989 Japanese guide for Super Mario Bros. 3, featuring four original…
Top: a bizarre glitch occurs in the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 2 in World…
The files of Donkey Kong Country 3 contain an unused block of text that seems to contain most of…
Warning: squashing and stretching footage that may induce nausea.
In Mario Kart Tour, the low-quality models used when racers are far away from the camera have…
Deck of small playing cards printed on a single page (for cutting out by the user) included with a…
In Mario Kart Wii, playing three-player local multiplayer matches allows for a visual glitch to be…
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…
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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…