Supper Mario Broth
A Super Mario variety blog. Screenshots, photos, sprites, gifs, scans and more from all around the world of Super Mario Bros.
Rare officially licensed 1995 Donkey Kong Country plush keychain in an original style, from Japan.
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…
Please join me on the Supper Mario Broth Twitch channel for the GRAND FINALE of the Paper Mario: The…
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…
Concept art for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie.
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…
It’s another Supper Mario Broth livestream for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door! Join me at the…
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.
Collection of concept art of various headgear for Mario, labeled “Trial and Error”, found in the…
Left: giant sculpture of Mario’s head emerging from a pipe, seen at the entrance to the Nintendo…
A compilation of highlights from my Super Mario 64 analysis livestreams is available on the Supper…
Mario Kart DS contains an unused, extremely simplistic model of a Shy Guy in its files, which was…
Super Mario Galaxy 2 contains an unused music track that is notably in a much earlier state of…
Japanese print ad for Mario de Dash, an officially licensed Mario-themed compressed air duster for…
The kiosk demo version of Donkey Kong 64 contains early dialogue for rescuing Diddy Kong whereby he…
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope contains an unused, extremely low-resolution image depicting Mario in…
Extremely rare officially licensed “Nintendo Power” T-shirt from Sweden, featuring Wario being…
The character select screen in Mario Kart: Super Circuit contains an undocumented, easily missed…
Screenshots of “Goombario and the Adventure of the Hot Lava Rocks”, a promotional Flash game found…
Officially licensed 1989 Mario and Luigi straws.
In Level 6-8 of Yoshi’s Island, it is possible to cause the game to become unplayable simply by…
Unused sound samples of Mario, Luigi, Peach and Toad singing, humming and whistling the Super Mario…
Near the beginning of Mario & Luigi: Brothership (after completing the first island), Arc explains…
Letter from Nintendo to the Donkey Kong 64 development team at Rare, regarding the planned, but…
Top: the three Super Mario cartoon series contain a wide variety of errors and oversights, but a…
Image used for an officially licensed 1999 Yoshi’s Story jigsaw puzzle from Japan, containing edited…
The skin texture used for King K. Rool in the SNES Donkey Kong Country trilogy was recently found,…
Japanese 1995 print ad for Donkey Kong Country, known as Super Donkey Kong in Japan.
In Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (shown here in the Super Mario All-Stars version), it is…
Splash page illustration from a 1997 Super Mario 64 manga.
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In Mario Kart 8/Deluxe, the motion of each character is governed by four independent…
The 2003 French commercial for Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga is notable for the fact that instead of…
Various pages from the officially licensed 1997 “Super Mario’s Adventures + Puzzles and Games”…
One of the more unique takes on the Super Mario Bros. overworld theme from the Super Mario Bros….
In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, Luigi has extensive programming to help him find his way back to…
Live recording of Koji Kondo playing his Athletic track from Super Mario World on keyboard for a…
“Maestro Mario” was a flash game that was available on Nintendo of America’s official Mario Party…
In Super Mario Advance 4, if Left and Right on the D-Pad are alternated on every frame during a jump…
Cover of a 1992 Nintendo Power promotional leaflet.
In Mario Kart DS, both the pinballs and the flippers on the Waluigi Pinball track knock racers…
Storyboards for the intro to Super Smash Bros., published on the official HAL Laboratory site in…
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The Mario & Luigi series is well-known for its usage of brief sound clips of vaguely…
In Super Mario RPG, there is a mysterious character behind the northeastern wall of the house…
In Super Mario Galaxy, the Star Ball acts as an extension of Mario even when Mario is not riding it.
Warning
Super Mario World uses a mosaic effect for screen transitions. This usually lasts only for a few…
Packaging for an officially licensed 1992 Super Mario Bros. rubber stamp set from Italy, featuring…
Mario & Luigi: Brothership contains an early version of Shipshape Island in its files (left column,…
Unique officially licensed 1993 two-part “Mario wearing a bucket” and “Peach wearing a cloud”…
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In Donkey Kong 64, one of Chunky Kong’s missions in Crystal Caves is rescuing the racing rabbit from…
Collection of officially licensed 1985 Super Mario Bros. collectible cards from Japan, featuring…
Two types of unused tiny Yoshi sprites from Super Mario World.
In the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, a new visual was added to…
Officially licensed 2001 deck of Mario Party 3 playing cards, from Japan.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe image macro posted in 2017 by Nintendo of America’s official Twitter account,…
Top: original photo of Shibam, Yemen that was used as a basis for the Wet-Dry World skybox in Super…
Extremely early concept art for Paper Mario, when it was still known under the codename “Super Mario…
In the Vanilla Dome 4 level in Super Mario World, if the camera is positioned precisely, the…
A bizarre glitch occurs in the GameCube version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door whereby…
Wake-up sound produced by an officially licensed 1992 Super Mario Bros. 3 alarm clock, consisting of…
Top: a glitch occurs in Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD that was not present in the original Nintendo 3DS…
Collection of officially licensed 1996 Yoshi’s Island keychains from Japan.
Extremely early concept art for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie.
In Super Mario 64 DS, if the player character is shot out of a cannon in Bob-omb Battlefield and…
Artwork of Mario and Peach as a couple, shown in an official 1996 Satellaview broadcast. The…
Mario character sheet by Nintendo character designer Yoichi Kotabe.
The “Mario In Real-Time” engine allowed Charles Martinet and other voice actors to project their…
Production photos for the 1989 Mario Ice Capades show, seen in an “Ice Capades 50th Anniversary”…
Illumination and decoration setups featuring various Mario characters, set up in the Marunouchi…
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In the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, a glitch exists that allows…
Top: Soda Lake is a secret level in Super Mario World. Due to the game’s food theme naming, it is…
(Spoiler-free Mario & Luigi: Brothership content)
The kiosk demo version of Mario Kart DS contains many early versions of the game’s music tracks….
Rare officially licensed 2017 “Mario and Luigi in pocket” T-shirt from Japan. The pocket is styled…
1994 brochure from Japan, detailing Nintendo’s hardware and software for that year, featuring an…
Due to the specific properties of the Spiny Shell (known colloquially as the Blue Shell) in Mario…
Officially licensed 1986 Super Mario Bros. figurines from Japan, which were available in three…
Top: the Mushroom Kingdom stage in Super Smash Bros. Melee contains a hidden platter of sushi within…
In Snow Cap Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy, it is possible for Mario to fall through the ground while…
Left: the regular Jumping Piranha Plant enemy, as seen in Super Mario World.
During the Bowser boss battles in Super Mario Odyssey, if Mario picks up Bowser’s hat during a…
In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Lemmy Koopa’s challenge in Bowser’s Castle consists of splitting…
2001 print ad for Mario Tennis for the Game Boy Color.
Unique 3D animation introducing the Kongs, from a 1999 Japanese commercial for Donkey Kong 64.
1992 Japanese print ad for capsule machine figurines that grow when soaked in water, featuring a…
Left: in the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario RPG, Valentina’s battle intro and attack…
In Super Mario Sunshine, if Mario enters the secret slide area in Delfino Plaza (accessible via a…
Two-page Nintendo Power ad featuring Bowser’s head on a plate.
Large store display for a 2000 Nintendo/Frito-Lay cross-promotion event, featuring paintings based…
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A 1994 test program used internally by Nintendo to showcase the abilities of the SA-1 chip, used…
Super Mario World contains two unused types of doors: small half-doors intended to be enterable only…
Illustrations from Adobe Flash e-cards available for the launch of Super Smash Bros. on Nintendo of…
Super Mario 64 contains a famous glitch called “Zombie Flying”...
Extremely rare promotional Nintendo DS Mario and Peach-themed rhinestone stickers.
Unused early background found in development files for Yoshi’s Island.
Model of an early character design for Yoshi for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie, known as “Junior”…
Original concept art for Super Mario RPG, featuring Bundt, Torte...
Sample finished design found on Nintendo’s official page for Mario no Photopi in 1998, featuring a…
Nintendo of America’s 2020 accolade trailer for Paper Mario: The Origami King includes a unique…
Promotional 1990 Mario and Luigi sticker distributed by Nintendo of America to doctors’ offices to…
Super Mario Sunshine famously contains “Kug”, a normally unseen Goomba sprite in a unique art style…
In Mario Party 8, whenever a solo player loses a Challenge Minigame, the character simply sulks and…
Top: the Backward-Facing Golden Mario Statue was a peculiar recurring visual element of the…
In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a glitch can enable immense...
1995 print ad for a set of officially licensed Yoshi’s Island plushes from Japan.
A new and relatively simple glitch has been discovered in Super Mario World only in October 2024, 34…
It is the second Supper Mario Broth livestream! Join me as I continue exploring Super Mario 64…
In Super Mario 64, the wind in Tiny-Huge Island can be used to position Mario against the bottom of…
Due to being created by the same development studio (GameFreak) and sharing a composer (Junichi…
In Super Mario Galaxy, if Mario hovers as close as possible to the ground as Flying Mario in the…
Officially licensed 1989 Princess Toadstool watch. The plastic Peach acts as a cover for the watch,…
Early version of the animated waterfall background, found in development files for Yoshi’s Island.
Top: during the final battle of Donkey Kong Country 3, King K. Rool (under the alias of Baron K….
In Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, whenever Luigi releases the Gold Greenie from the locker in the Old…
In Super Mario Sunshine, a well-known trick called “rocket storage” allows Mario to store and stack…
Design from an officially licensed 1989 Super Mario Bros. shirt based on artwork made for the Mario…
Sped-up footage of an official Super Mario Galaxy 2 event in 2010 at EB Games in Melbourne,…
In Super Mario Maker, there is a bizarre discrepancy in the Mario Challenge endings on Easy Mode…
Super Mario Bros. contains a byte that is used in every area to determine its type (which includes…
Animated segments from a Japanese commercial for officially licensed Super Mario Bros. curry and…
“Super Mario Dance” was a promotional CD released by Nintendo in Denmark in 1997. Despite being…
Illustration for an article about a writer for the Japanese 64Dream magazine visiting Nintendo’s…
Production artwork for the cover of an official Japanese guide for the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2,…
Top: in Super Mario Odyssey, 2D Skeleton Mario’s hat becomes a slightly different shade of red…
Select images from a Miiverse artwork gallery for Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, featured on…
Splash page illustration of Mario about to be shot out of a cannon, from a 1997 Super Mario 64…
An unused level found in the prototype version of Super Mario 3D Land consists of an endless blue…
The Goomba model that appears in the background of the boards in Fortune Street (normally seen from…
Promotional “joke spinner” Flash program found on Nintendo of America’s official site for Mario &…
Cover of a 1991 British promotional brochure about Mario games.
I am STREAMING for the first time! I hope you will join me as I levitate through Super Mario 64!
Promotional 1997 Super Mario 64 store display.
In Donkey Kong Country, swinging ropes exist outside of time. The footage features several times the…
Two different production sketches for the cover of the “Skylanders: Unexpected Allies” official…
Officially licensed 2024 Piranha Plant salad tongs from Japan.
In Paper Mario, whenever Goombario’s Tattle ability is activated, he attempts to assume a position…
Production artwork of Mario’s Spanish-inspired costumes seen in the 1984 Saturday Supercade Donkey…
Officially licensed Super Mario Bros. beach ball from Japan, featuring unique artwork of Peach…
The Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door features a detail absent from the…
Unique artwork of Mario in the Sky Pop plane from Super Mario Land, seen at the beginning of an…
Promotional photos for an officially licensed 2014 Wiggler plush.
Top: in Super Mario 64, catching the lower Ukiki in Tall, Tall Mountain will cause it to steal…
Concept art for a unique turtle-themed airship design for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie. The…
Short animation of Bowser gaining a Mario hat and pixelated glasses with the caption “DEAL WITH IT”,…
In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, at one point during the plot, Mario, Peach, Toadsworth and Prince…
The Markup Sticker is a humorous item from Super Mario Party Jamboree that can be used on a player…
Officially licensed 1988 Super Mario Bros. metal garbage can, featuring unique artwork of a Goomba…
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Splash illustration from a 1997 Super Mario 64 manga.
Unique background found in development files for Yoshi’s Island, showing rocks in an expanse of…
In a few locations in Yoshi’s Island (shown in the footage in the Super Mario Advance 3 version, but…
A patent was filed by Nintendo in 2011 for the car-based board movement used in Mario Party 9,…
Top: Flip-Out Frenzy is a minigame mode found in Mario Party 8. Just like every other game mode in…
In Super Mario 64, to conserve cartridge space, an extremely simple but effective case of asset…
In Super Mario Bros. 3, the level goal jingle is based on a fragment of the Athletic level theme….
Concept art for various transition screens from overworld levels to underground levels in Super…
Super Mario Bros. Wonder makes use of the fact that some objects are only ever seen from a single…
Game Freak is a development studio known chiefly for developing the Pokémon series; however, they…
2015 promotional graphic by Nintendo Japan, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Super Mario Bros….
Panel from a 2004 Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga manga, featuring a unique depiction of Mini-Mario in…
“Mario vs. Bowser - Das ultimate Carrera RC Kart-Duell” was a video uploaded to Nintendo’s official…
Paper Mario: Sticker Star contains an unused “Invisible” status, which is identical in function to…
Mario Party 8 contains an unused board originally found in Mario Party 5, where it was also unused….
In Super Mario World, whenever a Magikoopa is loaded on the current screen, it will pick a different…
There is a programming failsafe that was included in Super Mario Galaxy that was for some unknown…
Top: in Luigi’s Mansion 3, it is raining for nearly the entirety of the game’s plot, and areas on…
In Super Mario 64, the “Stand Tall on the Four Pillars” star in Shifting Sand Land requires Mario to…
Early concept art for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie, showing young Mario and Luigi in the process…
Supper Mario Broth: A Primer
My thank you message and plans for the near future. I welcome any suggestions on what new kinds of…
Top: a page from the 2020 “Gamer’s Edition” of the Guinness World Records. Note the column of…
Please help me. I have nothing else.
Top: whenever the hour changes in the clock mode of Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros., various Yoshis…
Illustration of Peach from a 1988 Super Mario manga.
Promotional Japanese 2005 T-shirt of Sonic saying “20th HAPPY MARIO!” for the Super Mario Bros. 20th…
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the default message that appears when activating an event…
Mario Super Sluggers contains unused skating animations for every playable character. Here are some…
Top: one of the concepts for an unused Wonder effect in Super Mario Bros. Wonder was Mario riding on…
The music that plays in the warp pipe at the entrance to Super Nintendo World, taken from internal…
In Paper Mario, if an NPC is close to a wall, it is very easy for Mario to jump between it and the…
Unauthorized Toad plush based on an officially licensed Mario Party 5 Toad plush from Japan.
Various pages from the official coloring book for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie.
Full commercial for an officially licensed Mario and Yoshi remote-controlled toy from Japan.
Japanese 1994 print ad for a mechanical version of Super Mario Kart.
In Super Mario 64 DS, if Mario is shot from the cannon behind the mountain in Bob-omb Battlefield in…
Close-up view of a coin from the Yoshi’s Island Zone DLC for Sonic Lost World.
Mario selling Nintendo games at a stand at a 1992 racing competition in Sweden sponsored by…
“Go Ape!” was a promotional 1994 Donkey Kong Country-branded CD given out by Nintendo at events in…
In New Donk City in Super Mario Odyssey, there is a line of people in front of the Super Mario Bros….
Officially licensed 2004 Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door jigsaw puzzle from Japan.
Super Mario World is one of the Mario games in which arbitrary code execution (ACE) is possible. ACE…
Development files for Yoshi’s Island contain an early version of the “hills and palm trees”…
Image macro featuring a Goomba, posted in 2014 on Nintendo of America’s official Facebook account.
Segment from a Japanese commercial for an officially licensed pre-packaged Super Mario Bros. rice…
In Super Mario World, pressing Left and Right simultaneously (only possible with third-party…
Top: Shiverians from Super Mario Odyssey as they appear during regular gameplay.
Officially licensed 1996 Peach keychain from Japan.
Promotional 1999 Nintendo of America pin featuring various official artwork edited into a summer…
Rare “friendly” interpretation of Bowser’s sprite from Super Mario Bros., seen in a 1986 Japanese…
While the Red Star flying power-up is not present in Super Mario Galaxy 2, its functionality remains…
Unused early sprites of Birdo found in the prototype version of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. The…
First iteration of the floating Mario head used during the Mario in Real Time interactive displays…
Extremely rare officially licensed 1991 Yoshi plush from Japan.
Illustrations from a 2019 Nintendo patent for the Luigi’s Mansion 3 method of seamless integration…
The Friend House in Mario Party Superstars, used to setup online play, features two unique 2D…
Photo from a 1994 feature in Nintendo Power that details Nintendo’s efforts to investigate issues…
Original sound quality version of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show theme song, provided by one of…
In Mario Kart Wii, the ramps in front of the bouncy mushrooms on the Mushroom Gorge track have a…
Original production art for a cover for a 1986 Japanese guide for Super Mario Bros.
In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, at the end of Luigi’s solo segment where he retrieves the Crabbie…
Illustration from an officially licensed 1986 Super Mario Bros. board game from Japan.
In most Wii games, if save data is found to be corrupted, a special screen will appear notifying the…
In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, the Koopa Troopa at the end of Level 2-3 has special physics…
Officially licensed 1999 Mario Golf board game from Japan.
Mario at a Nintendo-sponsored racing event in Sweden in 1994.
The footage above depicts a perfect session of Break the Targets with Peach in Super Smash Bros….
Unauthorized Mario toy from Mexico featuring two original illustrations that appear to be partially…
In Super Mario Bros., if Fire Mario shoots a fireball, and then both Down and A are pressed…
In New Super Mario Bros., Bowser is never fought underwater. However, if he is placed underwater and…
Unused background in a unique art style, found in development files for Yoshi’s Island.
The original GameCube version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has unused graphics for…
Unused “death from electrocution” animation found in the files of the Nintendo Switch version of…
Some of the winning entries from a 2013 Miiverse art contest for Super Mario 3D World (please zoom…
The final level of New Super Luigi U, Flying Squirrel Ovation, consists of a long autoscrolling…
Extremely rare officially licensed 1995 climbing Donkey Kong plush from Japan.
Top: in the prototype version of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the background of the small area…
In Super Mario 64 DS, there is an extremely small gap in the collision by a wall near the beginning…
Rare officially licensed 1999 Bowser action figure.
Rare factory error leaving an officially licensed Chain Chomp toy without pupils.
In the credits of Super Mario Galaxy 2, Mario has no hat on. Internally, this is accomplished via…
Top: officially licensed Super Mario handheld fan decorated with a Luigi figurine.
This mural seen in the Flopside Pit of 100 Trials in Super Paper Mario presents a very interesting…
In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a glitch occurs with the Chain Chomp’s animation if Mario defeats it…
Officially licensed 2024 Boo-patterned clothes from Japan (“Teresa” being the romanization of テレサ,…
In Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, a rare glitch may occur during online multiplayer mode…
Early concept art for Yoshi’s Woolly World. Note Yoshi being extremely simple to the point of…
Two-page spread from an officially licensed 1995 Mario activity book, depicting Mario being…
Mario Artist: Paint Studio was a successor to Mario Paint for the Japan-exclusive 64DD add-on for…
Photo posted by Nintendo of America’s official Twitter account in 2017 showing Mario performing a…
Original illustration featuring a rare back view of Wart from Super Mario Bros. 2, from an…
In Mario Kart Wii, Green Shells and Red Shells break when they hit bananas. However, the same is…
1996 Super Mario RPG-themed Nintendo Power subscription form, featuring a summary of the game…
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door contains an unused battle event called “btl_un_ufo”, or “Battle…
Collection of small Yoshi figurines hidden at random within officially licensed Mario bath bombs…
Development files for Super Mario World contain graphics for a shark enemy in a remarkably similar…
Officially licensed 2011 Bob-omb T-shirt.
Mario Party contains a curious set of textures for a Dice Block that only has six sides. This might…
In Super Mario Advance 4, there is a room that causes Koopa Troopas to assume glitched graphics,…
Yoshi-themed sample of the 2001 Mario Awards, commemorative glass statues given out by Nintendo of…
The 1990 Dr. Mario commercial for Dr. Mario had different variations. One variation that ended with…
In Paper Mario: Color Splash, the Fire Extinguisher is a Thing that must be used in the boss battle…
In Super Mario Odyssey, there is a glitch that can be performed in the rematch against…
Rare officially licensed Mario Party plush of Bowser from Japan. The eyebrows on this plush are…
In the Mini-Game Island mode of Mario Party, the final challenge is playing a special version of the…
New Super Mario Bros. contains unused functionality for Super Mario Bros. 3-styled enemy challenge…
Artwork of Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong fighting Riptor from Killer Instinct, drawn by Kevin Bayliss,…
Development files for Super Mario World contain sprites of Mario with wings, which appear to be an…
Two extremely rare officially licensed 1988 Para-Beetle figurines from Japan.
Original illustrations of Mario for the NES/Famicom version of Donkey Kong, created for an official…
Extremely early design for a Bomp, found in the files of Super Mario Galaxy.
The 2003 PlayStation 2 RPG Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne contains unused dialogue seemingly…
In Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, if the Baby Spin move is performed on top of the giant mushroom…
Rare officially licensed 2004 Luigi plush. These plushes have a common manufacturing defect whereby…
Boss Game Studios was an American development studio of Nintendo 64 racing games such as Top Gear…
In Super Mario 64, the celebration animation for obtaining a Power Star (known commonly as the “star…
Promotional photo of the ribbon cutting ceremony for the reopening of the Nintendo World store in…
Concept art for various scrapped vehicles for Mario Kart Arcade GP DX.
In Paper Mario: Sticker Star, there is an extremely easy way to accidentally receive a Game Over…
Mario Kart Wii contains a bizarre unused function called “rk_snowTest”, presumably meant to test…
Unauthorized severely deformed Goomba plush with its face being upside-down in relation to its body….
Super Mario Galaxy contains various decorative fish that are difficult to see up-close in-game due…
Extremely rare officially licensed 1990 Yoshi juggling toy from Japan. Note his body being curled…
E3 2000 footage of Paper Mario contains a very peculiar name tag for an enemy. During a battle…
In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a specific Boo in Level 4-Ghost House is positioned precisely so that…
Cover of a 2017 issue of the Spanish Edge magazine, featuring an original Super Mario Odyssey…
Unused early Peach and Daisy models found in the files of Mario Superstar Baseball. The white…
Top: in Donkey Kong Country, the Master Necky boss is a bird whose main body is never seen. Instead,…
In the Nintendo 3DS version of Luigi’s Mansion, a computer terminal is seen next to Luigi while…
Production artwork for an official 1986 Japanese guide for Super Mario Bros. Note a unique design…
Original illustrations of Mario in Hazy Maze Cave, from an official 1996 Japanese guide for Super…
In Super Mario Galaxy, regular Power Stars are textured normally, with yellow stars having a yellow…
Original animation of Mario playing with a sword, from a short-lived 1989 French TV program…
The official guide for Wario World makes an unexpected appearance in a feature film.
Bizarre unauthorized Paper Mario plastic cup from Mexico, featuring fan artwork of Bowser being…
Early concept art for Super Mario RPG, depicting Mario as a musketeer.
In the final battle of Super Mario Sunshine, Mario must perform a Ground Pound from a great height…
Cover of a 1997 Mario Kart 64 manga.
Top: world map seen in the prototype version of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. Unlike the final…
In Super Mario 64 DS, it is possible, through an immensely complex setup too difficult for a human…
In Mario Kart 7, as in most 3D games, characters are replaced with low-quality models when they are…
In Super Mario Sunshine, whenever Strollin’ Stus need to spawn repeatedly, they spawn from a…
Officially licensed Bowser finger puppet from Japan.
Some of the earliest concept artwork for Donkey Kong’s design in Donkey Kong Country. At this point,…
Those who follow the Supper Mario Broth Twitter/X account may recall that during the Wario bone…
Goomba from the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie at the 1993 Consumer Electronics Show.
Officially licensed “I’M A FUNGI!” Toad boxers.
Design from an officially licensed 2005 Mario T-shirt.
Unused animation from Super Mario Bros. Wonder, showcased during a developer interview, showing a…
In Super Mario Galaxy, Rosalina sits down when reading from her storybook in the Library. However,…
Top: In Super Mario 3D World, rare enemies called Madpoles appear in a few levels. While they are…
In Donkey Kong Country 2, a severe glitch exists in the Castle Crush level where a barrel can cause…
Illustration of Peach’s bedroom from Paper Mario in a deliberately silly-looking style, from an…
Officially licensed action figure of a Goomba from the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie.
Raccoon Mario interacting with a live-action dog in a commercial for a Super Mario Bros….
In Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story + Bowser Jr.’s Journey, during one cutscene, Bowser leaves…
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time contains a music track that is exclusive to non-American versions of…
Unused animation of Bowser looking left and right before laughing, found in development files for…
According to internal Nintendo documents, the development names for Mega Mario and Mini Mario in New…
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga contains a debug menu that allows access to different debug rooms. One…
Concept art for Super Mario RPG reveals that the Shaman species from the game was supposed to have a…
Officially licensed Mario Kart 64 jigsaw puzzle from Japan (please zoom in to view details).
Top: pre-release screenshot for Mario Kart Wii. This screenshot contains a very peculiar oddity near…
Officially licensed Game Boy-shaped container of adhesive bandages from Japan, featuring a Super…
Top: the manual for Mario Kart 64 is unique in calling Monty Moles “Chubby” (note “Watch out for…
Mario-related submissions from a 2015 Miiverse photo submission event for Super Smash Bros. for Wii…
Inflatable 4 meter/ca. 13 ft tall Elephant Mario decoration used for a Super Mario Bros. Wonder…
In Mario Kart Wii, a special sunset version of Luigi Circuit is used for the game’s credits….
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the Elephant characters’ trunks are nearly always curled. They briefly…
In the Super Mario World game style of Super Mario Maker 2, it is possible to create a…
Splash illustration of Mario and Yoshi sleeping by a bonfire from a 1992 Super Famicom manga.
Original illustration of Mario and Luigi setting off on their adventure from a Japanese guide for…
The café at the upcoming Nintendo Museum will be called Hatena Burger (Question Burger), with its…
Concept art for Yoshi’s Woolly World where Yoshi was briefly considered to be made out of beads.
In Mario Kart: Super Circuit, if a racer slips on a banana peel and hits a wall at the finish line,…
In Super Mario Sunshine, whenever Mario impacts a solid surface at a high speed (known in the…
Top: extremely early pre-release screenshot of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, featuring a…
The official Nintendo character manual used throughout the early 1990s has a bizarre description for…
Court documents from the 1983 Universal vs. Nintendo lawsuit about whether Donkey Kong infringed…
Descriptions of various officially licensed 2002 Hi-C fruit drinks that describe them in relation to…
In Luigi’s Mansion 3, some objects have “self-preservation routines” whereby they will respawn at…
Top: in the “Runaway Ferris Wheel” mission of Pinna Park in Super Mario Sunshine, the Ferris wheel…
An extremely rare event that may happen during the Card Party mode in Mario Party 5 is a Star found…
Officially licensed 2023 Bob-omb cap from Japan.
Luigi’s Mansion for the Nintendo 3DS features a psychedelic moving background for the Chauncey,…
Top: concept art for Yoshi’s Woolly World, made during a period of development where Yoshi was…
Behind-the-scenes footage from the production of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie, showing the Yoshi…
Development files for Super Mario World contain an unused “Flower Toad” character (left), which…
Two-page spread from “Super Mario Fun Picture Book 2: Beautiful Picnic”, an officially licensed…
Illustration of Mario’s forms combining their powers, from an official 1988 Japanese Super Mario…
In World 3-3 of Super Mario Bros. 3, if too many objects are on screen, the level will become…
Super Mario RPG concept art for Geno, showing him using a sword instead of an arm cannon.
During the final battle in Luigi’s Mansion, one of Bowser’s attacks is putting his head on backwards…
Extremely rare officially licensed 1995 plush of Mallow from Super Mario RPG, from Japan.
Officially licensed 1992 “Smiling Bowser” plushes from Japan. The one on the left with the stuffed…
In Super Mario 64, it is possible for the Cheep Chomp fish enemy in Tiny-Huge Island (known as…
Restored version of the Vs. Overworld theme from New Super Mario Bros., created by replacing the…
Officially licensed 2024 Piranha Plant, Blooper, Bob-omb, Boo and Goomba lip balm from Japan.
Officially licensed holographic Super Mario Bros. stickers from Japan.
Top: Super Mario 64 contains an unused “small Chill Bully” enemy (middle of the image), which…
Diddy Kong Racing artwork by Rare character designer and Diddy Kong creator Kevin Bayliss, featuring…
In Super Mario Sunshine, there are ten peppers floating in the void outside the King Boo boss battle…
Officially licensed Bob-omb/Bob-omb Buddy handbag from Japan. The reversible sequins can be pushed…
In Mario Party 5, the players’ reflections are faintly seen in the ice in the Ice Hockey minigame….
Segment from a commercial for action figures for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie, featuring a boy…
Unused Iron Goomba found in the files of Super Mario Galaxy.
Officially licensed metallic Peach’s Castle puzzle from Japan.
Unused flame-throwing Zinger enemy found in the files of Donkey Kong 64.
Various unused Bowser vehicles found in development files for Super Mario World. It is unknown if…
Illustration from a Super Mario World manga showing a humorous result of a Roulette Block being hit…
Prototype version of Koopa Beach 1 found in development files for Super Mario Kart.
Extremely rare officially licensed Mario tissue box from Japan.
Rare officially licensed 2002 Yoshi plush.
Live-action segment from a 2006 Japanese commercial for Super Mario Strikers.
Officially licensed 1998 board game version of the Slot-Car Derby minigame from Mario Party, from…
Cover for “Super Mario’s Fire Brigade”, an official original video animation (short anime movie)…
Unused animation found in Luigi’s Mansion for “Luige” (a misspelled copy of Luigi found alongside…
Concept artwork for “Project Haunt”, a cancelled game by Retro...
In Super Mario World, if a combination of glitches are used to mount Yoshi and land on a rotating…
In WarioWare: Smooth Moves, the Form Baton form descriptions are delivered via voice acting over a…
Unused model of an extremely rapidly rotating tomato, found in the files of Luigi’s Mansion.
Extremely small (0.8 inch) 2003 Mario Kart: Double Dash figurine of Baby Mario with a Star, from…
In Super Mario 3D World, crouching on ice repeatedly accelerates the character every time, with no…
All graphics in Super Mario Bros. fit into a single 16x16 table of 8x8 pixel sprites and an equally…
A brief announcement: those who follow the Supper Mario Broth Twitter/X account are already aware…
In Mario Kart 8/Deluxe, some course elements are shot high into the air when a racer using a Super…
Officially licensed Yoshi and Baby Yoshi plushes from Japan.
In Super Mario RPG, the parrot worn on Valentina’s head has always struck some players as being…
In Super Paper Mario, if Mario throws an enemy using Thoreau and then immediately flips into 3D…
Initial character sketches of Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong by Kevin Bayliss, character designer for…
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Mario’s body is stolen in Chapter 4. Despite Mario being…
In the Bowser’s Fury mode of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, thrown kittens can be used to…
In Super Mario 64, a particularly brutal way for Mario to die is...
In Delfino Square in Mario Kart DS, Pianta noises are overlaid over the music track when driving by…
In 2022, a prototype version of Super Mario World has surfaced. The prototype was intended for…
Officially licensed Mario plush from Korea. These plushes are known to have particularly flimsily…
In the pachinko secret stage in Super Mario Sunshine, the ground in specific spots has a special…
Officially licensed Super Mario World combination tin/pins from Japan. The object can either be used…