Animation from a Japanese commercial for an officially licensed Super Mario World tilting ball maze game.
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Animation from a Japanese commercial for an officially licensed Super Mario World tilting ball maze game.
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Unused castle background variation found in the data of Yoshi’s Island.
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Unlicensed 1993 Yoshi’s Cookie erasers from Japan.
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Goomba sketches, posted by the illustrator of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Masanori Sato, on his Instagram account.
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Officially licensed 1997 Luigi plush keychain.
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Smash Skate is a party game featured in Mario Sports Mix. One of the three arenas available in it is called "Fire Mountain", and takes place inside a volcano.
However, in the original Japanese version, it is supposed to be a Super Mario Sunshine reference, with it being named "コロナマウンテン" (Corona Mountain), like the final area of that game.
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Illustration from an officially licensed 1995 Princess Peach calendar from Japan.
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Test level found in the data of Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. As the level does not have a flagpole or pipe at the end, and the game does not allow the screen to scroll to the left, once Mario reaches the right edge of the level, he is stuck there indefinitely.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, if a Pokey Head enemy is pushed into a wall at a specific angle, it will become stuck in the wall in an immortal state. It can no longer be defeated or interacted with in any way, but will keep looking at Mario as he moves around.
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Officially licensed 1995 Yoshi's Island figurine of Car Yoshi, from Japan.
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Artwork of Imajin with a Stop Watch item and a grey Shy Guy, from the manual for Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic. While many of the pieces of official artwork from that game's manual were later remade for the Super Mario Bros. 2 manual, there is no corresponding illustration of a character using the Stop Watch item, making this official Shy Guy artwork unique to Doki Doki Panic.
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Mario game piece from the 1989 officially licensed "Super Mario Bros.: The Great Ladder Race Game" board game.
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Yoshi's Island is notable for having had, at different points in time, three different subtitles designating it as parts of different game series, each with a different number.
-During development, the game was known as "スーパーマリオブラザーズ 5" (Super Mario Bros. 5). The graphics for this subtitle can be found in development files for the game.
-The SNES version was subtitled "Super Mario World 2" in most regions outside of Japan.
-The GBA remake was subtitled "Super Mario Advance 3".
As such, if the game were to keep all of its subtitles, its full name would have been "Super Mario Bros. 5: Super Mario World 2: Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island".
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In Mario Kart DS, there is a single item box on the DK Pass track that is positioned outside of the track, on top of a hill (circled in red in the image).
That item box actually has special code that results in it not dispensing items with the same random distribution as regular item boxes, but instead always containing one of only four possible items: a Star, a Mushroom, a Triple Mushroom, or a Red Shell.
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