Supper Mario Broth
A Super Mario variety blog. Screenshots, photos, sprites, gifs, scans and more from all around the world of Super Mario Bros.
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, a combination of the Bubble Flower and the Boosting Spin Jump badge…
In Super Mario Odyssey, the Tail Tree from Super Mario 3D Land can be found in the Mushroom Kingdom.
In Yoshi’s Story, the spiked stone block carried by the Black Fly Guys actually has a Thwomp-like…
In the 1980s, the Japanese Famitsu magazine would feature custom-drawn comics illustrating various…
Bizarre pin promoting a 1992 French video game competition benefiting lung health, depicting Raccoon…
Concept art for Mario Power Tennis, found in a 2004 official Japanese guide for the game (please…
Mario Kart World has an extremely aggressive implementation of Lakitu to prevent abuse of the…
Unique animated segment from a promotional video for the Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary event in…
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, several factors combine to create a unique way to collect arbitrarily…
Internal Nintendo video documenting the process of creating a 2019 web ad for Nintendo 3DS games.
Ending panel from a 1992 Super Mario World manga, showing the game’s cast posing for a picture…
Officially licensed 2018 Donkey Kong hand puppet.
Super Donkey was a platformer that was in development for the SNES from 1991 to 1992, parts of which…
It is possible that the Moleville theme in Super Mario RPG is a reference to a classical music piece…
Trade magazine showcase for a line of cancelled 1999 “Mario’s World” Nintendo action figures.
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the Pit of 100 Trials does not actually consist of 100…
After the release of Super Mario Odyssey, there have been many reported, and multiple documented,…
It was recently discovered that the Spin Dash move from Paper Mario has actually been there, unused,…
In Donkey Kong 64, the Kremling Krusha is an unlockable character in multiplayer mode, but cannot be…
In Super Mario 64, the “Blast Away the Wall” star is notorious for being difficult to find for some…
Unique 3D animated segment from a 2005 Japanese commercial for the GBA version of Donkey Kong…
In a 2010 interview, Koji Kondo related a story of how when he met Paul McCartney of the Beatles,…
Frenetic advertising video that was played on screens nonstop in the Nintendo New York store (known…
In Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, the bonus missions in each mansion all play their own arrangement of…
A special feature in a 1986 issue of the Japanese Famitsu magazine had a yogi (yoga practitioner)…
In Level 7-1 of New Super Mario Bros., striped swinging poles can be found in a bonus room. If Mario…
Extremely rare Japan-only 1992 Super Mario World popcorn machine, featuring original artwork of…
Most games that have a dialogue system making use of more than one text style have an internal…
In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the incident that starts off the story is that Peach’s voice has…
Original animation cel from the production of the Super Mario World animated series episode “Mama…
In Paper Mario, the Dry Dry Ruins dungeon is laid out in an extremely curious manner internally….
In Super Mario Odyssey, Chain Chomps have a circular “danger zone” around them that they will attack…
Top: previously, I had posted about a bizarre Wing Mario plush without a nose that I posited could…
Concept art of a Toad painting based on the distinctive style of Pablo Picasso, for the 2023 Super…
In the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, a rare glitch can occur…
Officially licensed 2024 Donkey Kong tote bag from Japan. The bag is decorated with a DK tie that…
Concept art for an unused boss design for Super Mario RPG, shared by the game’s visual effects…
In Super Mario 64, Dorrie’s collision is shaped in such a way that if Mario crouches on its neck, he…
One of the events that can happen when Bowser Time is activated in Mario Party 7 on all boards…
Early files found in a demo for Mario Kart: Double Dash show icons depicting Donkey Kong’s partner…
In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, some loading zones can be very easily skipped by using the UFO Spin…
Set of five officially licensed 1995 Donkey Kong Country plushes from Japan, comprising Donkey Kong,…
Super Mario Drive, a 1993 battery car from Japan. Despite the nonstandard striped mushroom design…
In Donkey Kong 64, there is an invisible 101st purple banana in Gloomy Galleon, out of bounds.
In the Wooded Kingdom in Super Mario Odyssey, a rock can become glitched by picking it up with…
Extremely bizarre and frightening unused enemy found in the files of Wario World. It appears to be a…
Top: in Super Mario 64 DS, Luigi is able to pass through the mirror on the second floor of Peach’s…
Officially licensed 2022 Super Mario Bros. limited edition Casio watch. When the backlight is used,…
Behind-the-scenes photo of an unknown woman working on music or sound effects for Super Mario Bros….
Top: Promotional 2013 Mario & Luigi: Dream Team ball based on the Luiginary Ball attack from the…
In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, the Gulchrock Sea Great Lighthouse Island features an elevator that…
Fans of the Poltergust vacuums from the Luigi’s Mansion series may have found it strange that…
In Super Mario 64, it is possible for Mario to become stuck in a state of extremely rapid eternal…
Unused and mostly untextured models of Mario and Wario on scooters, found in the files of the…
In New Super Mario Bros., the Mega Mushroom actually has a size modifier applied to it at runtime to…
In Super Mario World, the floor of the boss battle rooms of Bowser, Reznor, Morton, Roy and Ludwig…
Live-action segments of Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson East training with Mario, from a…
Top: in the beginning of the intro of the Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon series, the…
In Super Mario Sunshine, an audio glitch occurs if the map screen is opened on a specific frame…
In Boulder Bowl Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy 2, the “C'mere, Goomba” mission consists of luring a…
Audio message of Mario talking about Super Mario Sunshine, found on Nintendo of Europe’s official…
In Super Mario Maker 2, creating the contraption shown in the footage in the Super Mario 3D World…
Short-form 2006 commercials for New Super Mario Bros., featuring live-action reenactments of the…
Top: it is well known that the 1987 “How to Win at Super Mario Bros” guide published in the US used…
It is possible to temporarily break Super Mario Odyssey by using a Peach amiibo with particularly…
Officially licensed decorative tin with a 3D design, available at Super Nintendo World in Japan.
In a 1996 interview with the developers of Mario Kart 64, they revealed that they made a “big city…
In the Yoshi’s Story stage in Super Smash Bros. Melee, a tiny strawberry is hidden inside one of the…
The data of Mario Kart 64 contains a list of various error messages used while developing the game….
A part of an interview with current Bowser voice actor Kenneth W. James, recounting the recording of…
In the Super Mario Galaxy games, performing a Spin near a Koopa shell will cause it to briefly spin…
Mario Party 7 winning and losing portraits, extracted from the game’s files.
In Super Mario 64, whenever Mario touches lava, he loses 3 units of health. However, this is more…
Officially licensed 1999 Mario Kart action figure of Bowser, featuring a more realistic scale…
The files of Super Mario Sunshine contain unused Pianta colorations, some of which were seen in…
Behind-the-scenes look at the 2012 Paper Mario: Sticker Star commercial, whereby a real paper model…
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, all Piranha Plant variants have an unused behavior whereby…
Donkey Kong Land 3 was released for the regular Game Boy in 1997 worldwide; however, a special Game…
In the original GameCube version of Luigi’s Mansion, the portrait ghosts have three different ranks:…
Officially licensed Yoshi wallet inventively using Yoshi’s tongue wrapping around the casing as a…
In the penguin race down the slide in Cool, Cool Mountain in Super Mario 64, the penguin is…
Concept art of King Koopa, from the production of a 1989 World of Nintendo merchandise commercial….
Top: in the manual for Super Mario World, Thwomps are described as being “stone ghosts” instead of…
In version 1.1.0 and earlier of Super Mario Odyssey (patched in all subsequent versions), having…
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the music that plays during the Wonder Effect in the “Cosmic Hoppos”…
In Super Mario Bros. 2, if a thrown enemy collides in mid-air with another thrown enemy, both of…
Top: one of the backgrounds used many times with different palettes in Super Mario World are these…
Artwork of Mario stomping a Koopa Troopa and a Goomba, potentially drawn by Shigeru Miyamoto.
Promotional photo for an officially licensed 2025 giant Donkey Kong banana plush from Japan.
In the beginning of Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, the player briefly controls Luigi as he is tasked by a…
Unique promotional render of Donkey Kong from the 1999 annual report of Nelvana, the Canadian…
Officially licensed board game based on the Donkey Kong Country cartoon series, from Japan.
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, many Talking Flowers react dynamically to situations (such as…
Development files for Super Mario Kart reveal that at some early point during development, music…
A small change introduced in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe that was not in the original Mario Kart 8 is that…
On the Coconut Mall track in Mario Kart Wii, the skybox outside the mall only has clouds near the…
A minor character detail in Paper Mario that can only be noticed by replaying the game many times…
Officially licensed Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD poster from Japan, featuring unique 2D artwork of King Boo.
The Donkey Kong Jr. arcade contains a unique implementation of an anti-piracy feature.
In the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario RPG, most characters’ proportions have been modified…
Officially licensed 1989 child safety reminder card from Japan. The card lists various things…
In Super Mario Sunshine, there is a Pianta carrying mushrooms in Delfino Plaza who finds himself on…
Top: in Super Mario Bros., Peach’s height is not matched to either Small Mario, who is much shorter…
Bizarre officially licensed 1987 Super Mario Bros. sticker from Japan that depicts Mario hitting…
In the Bowser’s Fury mode of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, a very unfortunate glitch can…
According to a 2024 interview with the creators of the Nintendo 64 platformer Glover, they have been…
Cover of a 2013 DVD release of a collection of episodes of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon series….
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It is well known that World 4-4 of Super Mario 3D Land contains an Easter egg whereby waiting for 30…
In Super Mario Land 2, pausing the game many times in a row (on...
In a 2013 Iwata Asks interview for New Super Luigi U, the game’s director Masataka Takemoto revealed…
The 2015 Nintendo 3DS flight game Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy+ contained support for select…
One of the sections of “The Dirty Tricks of Major Burrows” mission of Gusty Garden Galaxy in Super…
Stained glass windows on the ceiling of the Nintendo Super Star Store at in Universal Epic Universe…
Left: there is a rare alternate side art for Donkey Kong Jr. cabinets (confirmed as official by…
In Super Paper Mario, there is one chapter in which the Void is not actually visible in the sky upon…
Limited edition China-exclusive Nintendo 3DS XL console released under the iQue 3DS XL brand used by…
In Donkey Kong ‘94, there is a minor visual glitch when the final boss battle loads whereby, for a…
In Super Mario Odyssey, if Yoshi is uncaptured above a slope (such as the spires of Peach’s Castle),…
In Toad Houses in New Super Mario Bros. 2, Toad sometimes produces treasure chests containing items…
Top: in Donkey Kong Bananza, the font used for the UI and dialogue is called “Ad Lib”….
Unauthorized plush of the Yoshi Kid from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
Left: in New Super Mario Bros. U/Deluxe, Yoshi activates Donut Blocks by standing on them, causing…
In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Mini Goombas appear occasionally and appear to simply be regular…
Collection of eight officially licensed 1989 Super Mario Land capsule machine figurines, both inside…
In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, Luigi’s automatic pathfinding algorithm will occasionally result in…
Full recording of the “Wario Press Conference” sound file available for download from Nintendo of…
Like all other games that feature Silver Stars, Super Mario Galaxy 2 only lets the player collect…
Shortly after the release of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, dataminers have found unused graphics of…
Officially licensed 2022 Bullet Bill-shaped mittens from Japan.
In a 1994 interview with the development team of Donkey Kong ‘94, Shigeru Miyamoto and programmer…
It is well-known that speedruns of Super Mario 64 use the “backwards long jump” glitch on the stairs…
Officially licensed 2005 “I beat your mom at Mario Kart” shirt, featuring Wario.
In Super Mario Odyssey, the longer Mario spends climbing a tree without letting go, the higher the…
Super Mario Galaxy utilizes three levels of detail for models of NPCs that are loaded depending on…
In Yoshi’s Island, the Sluggy the Unshaven boss in World 5-4 has a weak point, a visible heart, that…
In the Bowser’s Fury mode of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, a minor obscure interaction is…
In Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition, every character has either one or two types, which…
In Super Mario Galaxy, the unique way Cosmic Mario looks, appearing as a hole in space through which…
Officially licensed 2015 claw machine-exclusive Shy Boo plush from Japan.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe contains an unused failsafe texture for the drivers’ emblems, which can be made…
By using various out of bounds glitches to beat Super Mario 64 DS as any non-Mario character, it is…
In Super Mario Galaxy, the Flying Mario power-up can only be used in two specific locations, so that…
Officially licensed Yoshi mask on display at the National Videogame Museum in Frisco, Texas at their…
Officially licensed 2015 Baby Donkey Kong plush.
In the GameCube version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the collision model for the…
The colors of the letters in the word “World” in the logo of Mario Kart World appear to be, at least…
Unauthorized 1986 Super Mario Bros. milk caps from Japan, featuring many miscolored and off-model…
Internally, the Bugaboom boss in Super Mario Galaxy is called “BossStinkBug” (object name) and…
In New Super Mario Bros., whenever Mega Mario performs a Ground Pound, coins or Goombas fall from…
2025 Mario toy capsule dispenser from Japan, decorated to look like a particularly spherical Goomba.
In Super Mario Galaxy, Power Stars and Grand Stars automatically remove all power-ups from Mario…
Early concept art for Super Mario RPG, shared by the game’s visual effects artist Jiro Mifune. The…
Extremely rare officially licensed 1988 4-foot tall Mario plush.
Top: the letters Mario receives at the beginning of each world in Super Mario 3D Land are made out…
At E3 1995, Nintendo of America distributed a VHS tape with prerelease footage to the press….
Set of rare officially licensed 1995 plush Donkey Kong Country keychains from Japan, available…
One joke in Paper Mario: The Origami King involves Mario saving a stack of 10 Toads in Overlook…
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, the Co-Star Luma controlled by Player 2 is able to immobilize enemies. If…
In New Super Mario Bros., if Fire Mario defeats a Cheep-Chomp with a fireball on the exact frame…
Officially licensed lenticular Bob-omb Battlefield painting magnet from Super Nintendo World.
In Mario Kart Wii, whenever a racer falls into the water on the N64 Sherbet Land track, Lakitu…
Promotional photo of an officially licensed 2024 Boo light from Japan.
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, there is a Koopa Troopa in Petalburg who collects Peach…
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In Super Mario Odyssey, the internal name for the Mario object is not something obvious or logical…
Comparison between the different styles with which Mario has been depicted in officially licensed…
In Super Mario World, the respawn system for enemies normally requires Mario to leave the screen and…
On April 7th, a Nintendo Today update featured a blurb about Donkey Kong that was subject to some…
1993 Banpresto arcade machine catalog from Japan, showcasing various Mario-themed devices….
Luigi’s Mansion 3’s object interaction physics have many quirks that express themselves as…
Three-page fold-out from a 1997 Nintendo of America’s press kit, featuring a cropped Super Mario 64…
Photo of Luigi posted on Nintendo of America’s various social media accounts in 2013 as part of the…
In Super Mario Galaxy, the “Plunder the Purple Coins” mission in Deep Dark Galaxy puts the player in…
“Rocky Wrench in a Flintstones-style car” miniboss found in a prototype version of Yoshi’s Island,…
Some Mario Kart games put small hearts on the asphalt in parts of tracks that are extremely…
The Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door introduces a character design…
Top: in Mario Superstar Baseball, there is a blue stick and a green stick hidden inside Birdo’s bow….
The files of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe contain remainders of a test course that once existed during…
Kevin Bayliss, character designer for Donkey Kong Country, revealed on his personal social media…
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, Mario can bring Hammer Bros very far away from their homes by continuously…
Comparison between pre-release sprites of Mario seen in a 1995 issue of the Japanese V-Jump…
In Super Mario 64 DS, normally only Mario can fight King Boo to obtain the key to unlock Luigi. When…
Top: animation from the “A Really Short History of Donkey Kong” extra feature on the “Ultimate…
When the camera is switched to rear view in some areas of Mario Kart 8/Deluxe, it is possible for…
A bizarre visual glitch in Super Mario World’s final level is that picking up a Mechakoopa as any…
Just like “Tomorrow Hill” in WarioWare: Smooth Moves, Penny’s song in WarioWare: Get It Together has…
Extremely rough concept sketches of the Mario and Bowser post-battle dialogue scenes in Super Mario…
Top: the Tree Top Town level in Donkey Kong Country is set in a village of houses built into tall…
At one point in Mario & Luigi: Brothership, Bowser Jr. announces an extremely large coin reward for…
Please join me on the Supper Mario Broth Twitch channel as I continue to analyze and provide obscure…
Yoshi’s Island contains an Easter egg with the Slot Machine Bonus Challenge. The instructions appear…
Mario monument available as a building in SimCity 64 for the Japan-only Nintendo 64DD peripheral.
A small obscure item drop in Paper Mario is a Shooting Star that can be retrieved from Goompa’s…
The Dragon Coins from Super Mario World went through a large number of revisions in the design…
In Donkey Kong Country, highlighting “Erase Game” on the main menu and pressing Down, A, R, B, Y,…
Footage from an extremely early point during the development of Super Mario 3D Land, shown by the…
Concept art for various logo designs for the Crazy Cap stores in Super Mario Odyssey, seen in the…
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, there is a black hole that will not activate the usual “sucked into a black…
Whenever Mario obtains accessories in Super Mario RPG, these simply get added to his inventory. A…
Rare officially licensed 1989 Mario vs. Luigi ladder race game. The aim is to tilt the ladders in…
All unique animated segments from the commercial for the Super Comboy, a version of the Super…
Original illustration of Toad taking off his mushroom cap and using it as a parachute from an…
Bizarre 2005 British print ad for Mario Power Tennis (please zoom in to see details).
Artwork of Geno wearing the clothes of the protagonist of Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, drawn by Super…
In Super Mario Galaxy, whenever Mario enters the galaxy selection screen from an observatory dome,…
Cover of an officially licensed Mario-themed English learning book for Japanese children, featuring…
In Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, the Greenie ghost enemies that appear in the…
“Mushroom Battle” is an exclusive mode in the Wii U version of Tekken Tag Tournament 2, whereby…
Reader-submitted artwork from a 2004 issue of the Brazilian Nintendo World magazine, featuring a…
Please join me on the Supper Mario Broth Twitch channel where we will watch the Nintendo Switch 2…
In Mario Superstar Baseball, chemistry is a stat that signifies how well characters get along with…
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, enemies affected by the Confusion status effect have a 50%…
Officially licensed 1992 mug featuring a scene of Mario sleeping in a chair, dreaming of Peach and a…
Early concept art for Princess Toadstool for the Super Mario Bros. Super Show cartoon series, likely…
A commonly known glitch in Super Mario Sunshine is the “invisible barrel”, whereby leaving the…
Cover of a 1988 issue of the Japanese Famicom Hisshoubon magazine, featuring original pixel art of…
World 1 map from a prototype of Yoshi’s Island. This version is vastly different from the finished…
It is possible that Peach’s horn in Mario Kart 8/Deluxe is a reference to the first four notes of…
Poster with a stylized Mario scene, included with a 2006 issue of Nintendo Power (please zoom in to…
Group artwork made by Ed Skudder, Head of Story for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie, to celebrate…
Full 1991 Japanese commercial for Kirin Lemon soda, featuring a Super Mario World cross-promotion….
Concept artwork for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie.
In Super Mario RPG, Fireworks are an expensive item that can be bought from a mole in Moleville for…
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the zero-gravity space section during the Wonder Effect of the Cosmic…
One of the earliest concept artworks for Princess Peach, created...
Unused sleeping animation found in the files of Wario Land 4, likely intended to be used when Wario…
Top: unique illustration of a glitch found in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels whereby Mario is…
Original 3D-rendered scene of Mario, Pikachu, Link and Kirby on the Kongo Jungle stage, from the…
Top: in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Mario and Luigi’s stage entrance animations involve them jumping…
The Game & Watch Gallery 2 version of Helmet includes a unique Easter egg whereby a different…
Cover of an official Japanese guide for “Golf: U.S. Course”, a Japan-only 1987 Mario Golf game for…
Top: in the preview image for the Bowser Jr.’s playroom field in Mario Super Sluggers, a cloud can…
During the final battle against Bowser in Super Mario 64, a rare glitch may occur if Bowser is…
Extremely rare Mario Party 4 artwork of the “GOOOOOOOAL!!” minigame, found in a 2002 issue of the…
Top: official art for Yoshi’s Island shows the various Yoshis with differently-colored shoes,…
Animated 360-degree views of the seven Koopaling player skins available in the Minecraft Super Mario…
All sprites of Bowser in his underwear, seen in the final scene...
All unique animated segments from the 1997 Japanese commercial for Diddy Kong Racing.
In Paper Mario, using a complex series of glitches to reset the game back to a Prologue state after…
In Donkey Kong Country 3, secret honks can be heard while riding...
In Super Mario World, whenever Mario and Yoshi take a hit while Yoshi is in the middle of eating an…
Bizarre unused object found in the data of Super Mario Bros. 3. The graphical tiles that would have…
In Mario Kart Wii, part of the melody of the Bowser’s Castle track is a more sinister-sounding…
Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers was a Donkey Kong puzzle game that was in development for the GBA from…
Top: Nintendo has been proven to use the fan website The Spriters Resource to access sprites from…
In Super Mario 64, the intended method to defeat the Mr. Blizzard snowman enemies is to run circles…
In the first three games in the Paper Mario series, a minor and easily overlooked running gag was to…
Top: in a previous post, I have shown how in Super Mario Galaxy, Mario’s head shrinks down into his…
Polterpup concept art from the Luigi’s Mansion 3 in-game concept art gallery, extracted from the…
Top: the “Funky’s Rentals” minigame exclusive to the Game Boy Advance version of Donkey Kong Country…
In Super Mario Sunshine, Klambers are yellow bug enemies that normally hurt Mario if he touches…
Various pieces of concept artwork for the Super Mario Bros. Wonder cover, published on Nintendo’s…
In WarioWare Gold, every microgame host has a special voice clip for when the player fails a…
In Yoshi’s Island, the Raphael the Raven boss battle uses the Super FX chip to rotate the…
Officially licensed 1999 Donkey Kong 64 T-shirt with illustrations created by slightly modifying…
Unique stylized/simplified “pseudo-3D” illustrations of the Donut Plains world from Super Mario…
Under very specific and highly unfortunate circumstances in Super Mario All-Stars, Mario can die…
High-quality scan of the various Bee Mario concept art sketches included in the official 2007 Prima…
The way Mario flashes under the influence of the Super Star in Super Mario Bros. 3 is dependent on…
Top: Bowser’s regular winning animation in Mario Kart DS.
Concept art for the Cloaker/Domino/Mad Adder/Earth Link (called “Bad Adder” in the Switch version)…
In Super Mario World, using Start+Select to quit out of a level actually adds 1 to a specific memory…
Donkey Kong 64’s entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for “Most Collectable Items in a…
Concept art for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie.
Top: at one point during Nintendo’s long history before becoming a video game company, one of the…
Scan of the full sheet of official Super Mario Japan Post stamps from 2017. Note that this provides…
Officially licensed 1989 Mario wristwatch with bizarre double-outlined eyes.
Development files for The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening contain early sprites for the Super…
“Stabs in the Dark” is an unlockable minigame in WarioWare: Twisted, being an infinite version of…
Due to an error, it was at one point briefly possible to earn free money with a Yoshi game.
In the Bumper Balls minigame in Mario Party, if two players are both about to fall off the platform,…
Top: the German name of the PC edutainment game Mario’s Early Years: Fun with Numbers (known in the…
Immensely rare Donkey Kong Country plushes from Japan, seen in a 1995 product catalog.
Top: in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the Wonder Effect in the “Upshroom Downshroom” level causes the…
Top: on the Mushroom Bridge track in Mario Kart: Double Dash, several whirlpools can be seen in the…
Mario Kart DS contains an unused track called “luigi_course” in its files, which is an early version…
Unused Spike variant that would spawn Bullet Bills from its mouth instead of spiked balls, found in…
The international versions of WarioWare: Move It changed two of the forms (Joy-Con holding…
In the WarioWare: Move It microgame “The Big Moment”, the aim is to propose to a woman with a ring,…
Both Paper Mario: Color Splash and Paper Mario: The Origami King contain sets of three paintings…
In Super Mario 64, landing from a jump next to Koopa the Quick and then jumping again immediately on…
Officially licensed 2025 merchandise for the Yoshi’s Adventure ride, available at Super Nintendo…
Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s engine resembles the Super Mario Maker engine in that it is able to…
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the Wonder Effect in the “Up'n'Down with Puffy Lifts” level causes the…
In the Floaty Fun Water Park level of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, the bloom post-processing…
For every type of major collectible seen in 3D Mario games, there has been a different…
WarioWare: Move It has a special scenario for earning 0 points in the Megagame Muscles mode. Due to…
WarioWare: Get It Together has an obscure Easter egg that can only be seen in the Level 2 variation…
In the Switch version of Super Mario RPG, the design of Smithy’s final form is really supposed to be…
Officially licensed 1997 Super Mario 64 Wing Mario plush.
Extremely rare officially licensed 1993 Yoshi plush from Japan.
In Miitopia, the Donkey Kong and Bowser amiibo outfits are designed in such a way that when worn,…
Top: in the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario RPG, the console played by the Toad in the…
In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, Shroonken Islet is a minor location that is relevant for a sidequest…
Currently, the only available Super Mario Party Jamboree wallpapers from My Nintendo are Mario,…
Restoration of an original illustration from an officially licensed 1996 Mario picture book from…
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time contains an unused arrangement of the ending theme from Mario &…
After reaching 72 points in single microgame challenge mode in WarioWare: Twisted, the microgame…
In Super Mario World, Baby Yoshis have the ability to remotely eat objects. In this footage (slowed…
The title screen of Super Mario All-Stars employs a silhouette graphical effect to show a group of…
Concept art for various takes on a generic Toad design for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie.
In WarioWare: Move It, the name of the game is announced on the title screen by a different randomly…
In Super Mario Bros. 3, the levels using a green hills tileset (e.g. World 1-2, seen in the footage)…
In 2016, a cross-promotion event with Sonic Drive-In restaurant was used to promote Mario & Luigi:…
Extremely rare officially licensed plush of a Super Koopa (the caped flying Koopa Troopas that…
BS Super Mario USA was an enhanced release of the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros….
Drawing of Mario by Shigeru Miyamoto, found in the official Japanese guide for Super Mario…
In the SNES version of Super Mario RPG, the Sheep Attack item has a very low chance of working on…
Promotional Super Mario Galaxy patch distributed to the press at select preview events in 2007.
Unused version of the “Yoshi’s Song” stage theme whereby the regular music plays simultaneously with…
In Super Mario Galaxy, Rainbow Mario’s rainbow effect is applied to him in-engine; he does not…
Promotional Mario display used at select Best Buy stores in the mid-1990s.
In the original SNES version of Super Mario RPG, a glitch allows Mario to walk on water as though it…
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In Super Mario Bros. 2, the underground music track features a woodblock instrument as the…
In the “Bound of Music” minigame in Mario Party 5, if one of the players hits a block on the very…
In the Bowser’s Tower mode of Mario Party: Island Tour, the player is challenged by “bubble clones”…
While the vast majority of GameCube and Wii games use generic screens without any particular effort…
Extremely smooth Goomba model leaked from the internal files of the Super Nintendo World theme park…
Captioned image with a type of “bad luck” joke that would be typically posted as an image macro with…
Unused enemy found in the data of Super Mario Bros., with the unused ID of 13. Due to being…
WarioWare: D.I.Y. contains some sample comics that were completely replaced in non-Japanese versions…
Officially licensed 2024 Super Mario merchandise collection featuring a spelling mistake on the…
Unused “Mario Attractor Area” object found in the files of Super Mario Galaxy. Whenever Mario is…
1994 Mario supplement booklet for a Japanese magazine, featuring original artwork on the front and…
Prototype versions of officially licensed 1996 Super Mario RPG plushes, from Japan. While the…
1986 Japanese print ad for officially licensed Super Mario Bros. ramen noodles, featuring original…
In the “Grab Bag” minigame in Mario Party 2, control is taken away from the players and the…
Officially licensed educational robot toy from Japan, featuring an original Super Mario Bros….
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the prompt for the “Invisible” status effect states…
In Yoshi’s Island, a glitch can occur if Yoshi attempts to retrieve Baby Mario from his bubble while…
In Donkey Kong Country 3, the Tearaway Toboggan level requires using the toboggan, a vehicle that…
Top: unused Peach hand models found in the files of Super Mario Galaxy. These have actually been…
2003 Japanese print ad for the GBA version of Donkey Kong Country.
Original sketch for a frame of Balloon Mario from the production of the Super Mario World animated…
A bizarre visual glitch occurs in the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door…
The skin texture used for the “Army” armadillo enemy in Donkey Kong Country was recently found,…
Unauthorized 2007 Peach coin pouch from Japan. Despite not being officially licensed, this pouch is…
Unused dialogue found in the files of Mario Party 8 that was intended for a Little Mouser character…
In Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, a glitch can occur in battles against Flounderflage enemies in Dozing…
Commemorative pen awarded to Nintendo of America employees in the late 1990s after 10 years of…
In World B-3 of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (shown here in the Super Mario All-Stars…
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In Mario Party 4, the main group of hosts (Toad, Shy Guy, Koopa, Goomba and Boo) are using the power…
Candy Kong insulting the player after failing a Flash activity on the 2003 official site for the GBA…
Top: screenshots of the earliest iteration of Project Dream, the Rareware game that would eventually…
In Paper Mario games, even though the characters appear to be 2D sprites, they are actually 3D…
Animations of the Sniffer mob from Minecraft: Super Mario Mash-Up Pack, which appears as a…
Unused animations of Mario found in development files for Super Mario 64, each referring to a “log”…
By backtracking within the Hot Head Hop level in Donkey Kong Country 2, it is possible to bring…
In Super Mario Maker 2, if a Yoshi is positioned on a Note Block above rising lava in the manner…
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, some enemies like Magikoopas and Wizzerds are able to create…
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A well-known unused object found in the files of Super Mario 64 is the Yellow Switch. The footage…
An internal system used by Nintendo of America in the late 1990s was the “Manufacturer’s Authorized…
Top: when selecting a board in Mario Party 2, Toad appears to briefly leave the screen as the camera…
Commemorative Diddy Kong Racing artwork drawn by Kevin Bayliss, the character designer for Donkey…
Officially licensed 1992 British Mario wallet with a unique logo that reads “Just A ‘Little’ Mario”.
In Level 4-Ghost House of New Super Mario Bros., the large Balloon Boo enemies appear. One area…
Top row: both Raccoon Mario (left) and Tanooki Mario (right) have distinct ringed tails. In…
Yoshi growing animations extracted from “Super Yoshi”, a cancelled version of the puzzle game Yoshi…
On the CD of the official Japanese soundtrack release for Donkey Kong Country 2, “Original Sound…
According to a card from an officially licensed set of 1996 Super Mario quiz cards, Peach’s blood…
Normally, whenever Lakitu rescues a racer in a Mario Kart game, he is supposed to drop that racer…
In Super Mario 64 DS, the different animations and camera movements that occur after a Power Star is…
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Concept document from the development of Donkey Kong Country, detailing ideas about the Kremlings,…
Officially licensed Super Mario Bros. stickers based on shape marks used in grading assignments in…
Nintendo 64 T-shirt distributed at trade shows in 1996, promoting the Rambus DRAM included on the…
Grubba from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door actually has a very close physical resemblance to…
Concept art for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze depicting an unused enemy called a “Peanut…
Concept art for a backpacking New Donker wearing traditional Toad clothing who would have appeared…
Super Mario Galaxy contains an unused model for a test character named “DummyNPC” in its files, who…
The original sky stock photo used for the cartridge art of Super Mario 64 has been found on a…
Bizarre illustration from a 2009 issue of the Brazilian Nintendo World magazine, depicting a…
In World 2-1 of Super Mario 3D World, Conkdor Canyon, there is a Conkdor continuously pecking at a…
Promotional photo for an officially licensed Boo nightlight from Japan.
An extremely rare glitch can occur in Mario Kart 64 whereby racers will become “entangled” with each…
Photo from a Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix article in a 2005 issue of Nintendo Power, depicting…
An early, unused design for Mario’s sticker album in Paper Mario: Sticker Star (top row) appears to…
Top: in Mario Kart 64, the Item Boxes normally have a a spinning question mark visible inside them…
Unused blur effect found in the code of Mario Kart DS that was intended to be used whenever the…
Officially licensed 1999 Italian Toad figurine.
Unused 13-second long drum loop found in the files of Mario Party DS, likely used for testing sound…
Moon: Remix RPG Adventure is a 1997 game for the PlayStation (later released for the Nintendo Switch…
Unique artwork found on an officially licensed 1990 Super Mario Bros. mylar balloon.
Unused “climactic transformation” animatronic from the production of the 1993 Super Mario Bros….
Gameplay music for the “underwater” level (the only surviving functional level) of “Super Yoshi”, a…
In Level 2-1 of Yoshi’s Island, there is a lengthy autoscrolling section with falling rectangular…
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Unused “laugh at Mario’s misfortune” animation for Grodus, found in the files of the Nintendo Switch…
Set of officially licensed keychains of Kinopio-kun, the former green Toad mascot of Nintendo’s…
Concept art for a Donkey Kong game called “Freedom”, pitched to Nintendo by Vicarious Visions…
Rare officially licensed 1995 Donkey Kong Country plush keychain in an original style, from Japan.
Top: a picture of Waluigi that appears in the 150cc version of the credits in Mario Kart Arcade GP…
In Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story, upon Mario and Luigi’s first visit to Toad Town, the way to…
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Officially licensed Super Mario Bros. tea set, from Japan. When stacked correctly, the teapot and…
The music instrument samples used by Koji Kondo when he composed the Super Mario World soundtrack…
“Battle Unit Yoshi”, an extremely bizarre unique unused enemy found in the files of the GameCube…
Officially licensed 2021 Bowser-themed Hot Wheels monster truck.
In the Nintendo Switch version of Mario vs. Donkey Kong, Mario has an unused death animation whereby…
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the “Armads on the Roll” level’s Wonder Effect causes time (i.e. every…
Unique original artwork used for an officially licensed 1986 Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 (known…
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Top: Valley of Bowser, the final regular world of Super Mario World, as it appears in-game. While…
The aim of the “Dodge Balls” microgame in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames is to dodge soccer balls…
Unused, extremely quickly-moving tiny Yoshi sprites found in the development files for Yoshi’s…
Super Mario World-themed cover of a 1990 issue of the Japanese Famitsu magazine.
Sprites and a walking animation of an early experimental, shaded design for Mario, found in…
Top: the ending screen for Super Paper Mario shows Count Bleck and Tippi, together again in their…
1998 Australian Yoshi’s Story print ad. The artwork used is a unique edit of an official render of…
To lower the workload, some shots in the various Super Mario cartoon series were created with…
A glitch occurs in both versions of Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch version shown in the footage)…
Concept art of Toads for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie.
Officially licensed 1997 Super Mario 64 wristwatch.
Luigi’s Mansion contains an unused “playable Mario” model in its files, which consists of Mario…
In the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros., there is a difference between how Bowser’s fire breath…
Box art for an officially licensed Super Mario Kart board game from Japan, featuring rare official…
In Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, a rare glitch may occur during a battle against a group of Paper Spear…
Top: the Star List menu in Super Mario Galaxy 2.
Concept art for the end credits parade for Super Mario RPG (please zoom in to view details).
An extremely bizarre glitch that was possible at launch in Super Mario Maker 2, but has been since…
A particular controller input widely used for a glitch in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (and…
Unique unauthorized Peach plush, likely created by modifying a pattern not originally designed for…
In Diddy Kong Racing, a rare “anti-gravity tree” glitch may occur in the Tricky Challenge boss track…
Development files for Yoshi’s Island contain an early bonus minigame, which appears to be an early…
In Super Mario 64 DS, diving into the corner of the drawer in the Rec Room with a precise angle will…
While throwable Koopa Troopa shells in the mainline Mario series come in different variations, some…
Out of all games where Mario falls asleep when idling, Paper Mario: The Origami King is the one…
Bizarre officially licensed 1993 soda can-shaped* Super Mario World sliding puzzle. Note the highly…
Rare officially licensed 1989 Mario toy with uncharacteristically pronounced lips.
Horizontal* Warp Pipes in Yoshi’s Island are programmed in such a manner that it is not the pipe…
In one of the title screens of Mario Kart Wii, there is an extremely faint and tiny smudge to the…
In Yoshi’s Story, performing a Ground Pound right before a fruit-carrying Shy Guy would reach a…
Top: in Donkey Kong Country 2, the King Zing boss battle is played as Squawks the Parrot, who needs…
In the “Just My Type” microgame in WarioWare: Move It!, the player needs to spell a word in order to…
The wall texture for Cool, Cool Mountain in Super Mario 64 is actually a very blurry image of…
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There have been two occasions on which Bowser’s airship has been shown to possess a large mechanical…
In Super Mario Galaxy, dialogue exists for Luigi during the “save Luigi” missions that is extremely…
In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, a rare but severe glitch may occur whereby Luigi will enter a state…
In Starshine Beach Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy 2, there is an invisible “produce a splash effect”…
In the first Super Mario Maker, the physics of Super Mushrooms and Cape Feathers change if they…
Original artwork for the soundtrack album for the 1986 “Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission To…
Two of the main mechanics of Paper Mario: The Origami King can...
An official 2024 Japanese art book for the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario RPG featured two…
As discussed in my Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door livestreams, there is an immensely rare event…
Officially licensed 1990 Yoshi-themed juggling toy from Japan.
Drawing made by Archie Comics to pitch a Super Mario comic (presumably of the same style as their…
In Mario Kart DS, Rocky Wrenches appear as obstacles on the Airship Fortress track. As only their…
In World D-4 of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, the Blue Bowser in the middle of the level (also…
In Super Paper Mario, Magikoopas have fully modeled heads despite their hats never being removed…
Left: an unused Shy Guy found in the prototype version of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. The thin…
In the Super Mario 3D World game style of Super Mario Maker 2, Builder Mario is able to…
For a 2023 Super Mario Bros. Wonder tips feature in the Japanese Nintendo Dream magazine, the tips…
A 1996 promotional booklet for Super Mario RPG from the Japanese VJump magazine contained a series…
In Donkey Kong Country, whenever Diddy Kong loses a matching minigame, he will perform a special…
Limited-edition promotional T-shirt for the Nintendo DSi launch in 2009, designed by artist Gabe…
High-quality scan of artwork used for an officially licensed 1992 Super Mario World jigsaw puzzle…
In Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story, Bowser appears both as a playable character and as a boss….
Mario Golf for the Nintendo 64 contains a hidden “Yoshi Kong” music track, which only plays when the…
Mario Kart 64 contains a fully operational, but completely unused, function to vertically scale the…
An officially licensed 1989 coaster from Japan featured a unique illustration of Peach and Raccoon…
Official recipe for “Wario’s Mystery Appetizers” from a 2009 issue of the French Official Nintendo…
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In New Super Mario Bros., no shells can normally be taken into the Mummipokey boss battle arena.
Top: the E3 2010 demo for Mario Kart 7 only showed Mario and Luigi, instead of the 8+ racers usually…
Promotional “Official Nintendo Dealer” store display, featuring Cape Mario.
In the Bowser’s Fury mode of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, positioning Plessie on the…
Illustration from a 2023 Garbage Pail Kids collectible card, based on Mario Kart.
Brazilian version cartridge of Mario Bros. for the Atari 2600. It is unknown if the artist actually…
In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the game may become glitched simply due to the player being too…
Set of officially licensed Mario figurines from Italy. Note the Bowser-colored Wart in the top left.
In the French version of Super Paper Mario, the InterChet, who runs the Flipside Arcade, is changed…
Unused, extremely poorly lit cutscene found in the files of Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD.
In Big Boo’s Haunt in Super Mario 64, the doors depict a scary face with one glowing eye and one eye…
Officially licensed 2024 holiday stickers from Japan. The Mario, Luigi, Peach and Toad snowmen are…
Yoshi’s Island contains a rare “European trap” glitch whereby in the European version of the game,…
Recreation of an extremely rare promotional Hanafuda card from the 2016 “Mario Pikachu” Japan-only…
The 2022 Holiday Tour in Mario Kart Tour used a promotional artwork that depicted Daisy as being…
In Super Mario Odyssey, the cutscene of Mario flying the Odyssey for the first time from the Cascade…
Holiday-themed 1998 Japanese print ad for Yoshi’s Story.
In Paper Mario: The Origami King, an elaborate series of glitches allows Bob-omb/Bobby to be…
Screenshots of the official Super Mario Sunshine Windows XP theme available for download from…
Top: the empty Banana Hoard room near DK’s treehouse in Donkey Kong 64 is an area that exists purely…
Unique illustration of Bunny Mario being shocked, from the official Japanese guide for Super Mario…
In Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story, Bowser meets the Koopa Corps, who are trapped in a cage,…
In Super Mario 3D World, the level Shadow-Play Alley features a segment where the player characters…
In Wario World, Wario sings a deliberately annoying chant on the pause screen. However, should the…
Limited edition officially licensed Toad hoodie from Super Nintendo World in Japan.