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Top: officially licensed 1985 Super Mario Bros. Goomba figurine from Japan.

Supper Mario Broth about 2 months ago

Top: officially licensed 1985 Super Mario Bros. Goomba figurine from Japan.Bottom: viewing the figurine from behind reveals that the Goomba has arms, which are folded behind its back. Whether this was merely a visual gag by the designers of the figurine, o …
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Pac-Land Is Coming To Analogue Pocket

Time Extension about 2 months ago

Munch munch.Namco's 1984 impactful action platformer Pac-Land is coming to the Analogue Pocket via a new FPGA core.A spin-off from the original Pac-Man, Pac-Land is considered to be one of the most influential titles of the 1980s, as it pioneered many mech …
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Behind-the-scenes photo of Lou Albano and Danny Wells from the production of the live-action…

Supper Mario Broth about 2 months ago

Behind-the-scenes photo of Lou Albano and Danny Wells from the production of the live-action segments of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, wearing less detailed (likely early) versions of their Mario and Luigi outfits. It is possible that test or pilot rec …
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In Super Mario Bros., there is one spot where dying from a time-out will actually act as progress…

Supper Mario Broth about 2 months ago

In Super Mario Bros., there is one spot where dying from a time-out will actually act as progress through the level, causing Mario to respawn further along than where he was when he died.In World 6-2, if Mario enters the first pipe and then dies from runni …
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In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the Wonder Effect used by Bowser Jr. during his boss fight in the…

Supper Mario Broth about 2 months ago

In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the Wonder Effect used by Bowser Jr. during his boss fight in the Pipe-Rock Plateau Palace makes the player character bigger and then smaller. However, internally, a trick is used to merely give the impression of the player bec …
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Stunt doubles of John Leguizamo, Samantha Mathis, Dennis Hopper and Bob Hoskins at the set of the…

Supper Mario Broth about 2 months ago

Stunt doubles of John Leguizamo, Samantha Mathis, Dennis Hopper and Bob Hoskins at the set of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie.Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: twitter.com user “smbmovie” …
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Officially licensed 2023 Super Mario Bros. Movie “Bowser’s Battle” game, consisting of an inflatable…

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

Officially licensed 2023 Super Mario Bros. Movie “Bowser’s Battle” game, consisting of an inflatable Bowser that must be made to catch rubber balls (stylized after fireballs) in the nets in his hands.Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small …
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Top: concept art for the four non-Mario Bros. plumbers featured in the Super Mario Bros. Super Show…

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

Top: concept art for the four non-Mario Bros. plumbers featured in the Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode “Plummers Academy” ([sic], also note that the title was correctly spelled “Plumber’s Academy” in this concept art, sug …
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The promotional Super Mario Bros. Plumbing website used to promote the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie…

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

The promotional Super Mario Bros. Plumbing website used to promote the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie from February to October 2023 contained an Easter egg in its code where checking the source code of the “Error 404” page revealed an ASCII art i …
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Top: cover of an officially licensed German DVD release of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show cartoon…

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

Top: cover of an officially licensed German DVD release of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show cartoon series. Note the background.Bottom: instead of using background artwork from the show itself or from other official Mario material, a common fan-made wallpa …
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The Super Nintendo World theme parks use a design for cactus decorations that is almost certainly…

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

The Super Nintendo World theme parks use a design for cactus decorations that is almost certainly taken from a fan work.Top row: the cactus decorations. Note that cacti that look like this have never appeared in a Mario game or any other official Mario pro …
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Archivist Preserves Full Set Of Super Mario Bros. Toys From The '80s

Time Extension about 3 months ago

The toys were originally released by Bandai back in 1986.Back in October 2022, we told you about Mr. Talida and their ongoing preservation project to archive old video game toys and merchandise using 3D scanning technology.And ever since, they've clearly b …
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In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the Ninji Jump Party level has a rhythm gimmick whereby jumping four…

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the Ninji Jump Party level has a rhythm gimmick whereby jumping four times in a row to the beat of the background music (and keeping up the rhythmic jumps afterward) causes changes in the level.In addition, the music also chang …
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Super Mario Bros. CD Is A New ROM Hack Inspired By A Console That Doesn't Exist

Time Extension about 3 months ago

Coming 10.10.2025.A trailer recently dropped online for a new Super Mario World ROM hack that aims to imagine what a Super Mario Bros. game might have looked like had it been released on a fictional CD-based version of the NES / Nintendo Famicom.Super Mari …
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5 Retro Games With The Biggest Legacies

Retromash about 3 months ago

Regular readers will know that we love classic video games at Retromash. Sure, modern video games boast exceptional graphics and epic storylines that’ll take you 30+ hours to complete. They’re pushing the boundaries and blurring the lines between cinem …
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Concept art of a sad Toad for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie.

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

Concept art of a sad Toad for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie.Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source …
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The trial version of the 2000 action-adventure game Dino Crisis 2 for the PlayStation contained a…

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

The trial version of the 2000 action-adventure game Dino Crisis 2 for the PlayStation contained a short, out of tune version of the Super Mario Bros. Overworld theme in its files for an unknown reason. This has been removed in the finished version of the g …
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In New Super Mario Bros. U/Deluxe, Mario will keep sliding as long as the ground below him is sloped…

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

In New Super Mario Bros. U/Deluxe, Mario will keep sliding as long as the ground below him is sloped downward, even if he passes a point that raises his elevation by a small amount while doing so. The result of this, as seen in the footage, is that Mario c …
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Cardboard mock-ups used to design the set for the live-action segments of the Super Mario Bros….

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

Cardboard mock-ups used to design the set for the live-action segments of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show.Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source …
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Concept art for the Shy Guy balloon used by a group of Shy Guys...

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

Concept art for the Shy Guy balloon used by a group of Shy Guys to transport Luigi to Bowser in the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie.Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source …
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Original arrangement of the Super Mario Bros. theme included in a SNES test cartridge, used by…

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

Original arrangement of the Super Mario Bros. theme included in a SNES test cartridge, used by Nintendo tech support to analyze problems with the hardware. The voices heard at certain points in the track are saying “right right right right” in …
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In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the level “The Sharp Trial: Launch To Victory” in World 3 revolves…

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the level “The Sharp Trial: Launch To Victory” in World 3 revolves around riding platforms on tracks, whereby each platform contains a Hoppycat enemy that will jump out of the front of the platform every time the pl …
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Behind-the-scenes screenshot from the modeling stage of the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie, showing…

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

Behind-the-scenes screenshot from the modeling stage of the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie, showing the most basic scene setup before lighting, elaborate hair/fur and particle effects are added, as well as the background being populated with details and extr …
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Illustration of Fire Mario from a 1986 Super Mario Bros. coloring book from Japan.

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

Illustration of Fire Mario from a 1986 Super Mario Bros. coloring book from Japan.Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: twitter.com user “VGArtAndTidbits” …
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In Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (the latter shown here in the Super…

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

In Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (the latter shown here in the Super Mario All-Stars version), if a power-up is spawned on the same screen that a vine was previously spawned on, the vine will seemingly disappear.However, this is …