Niko (on Tumblr)

Cartoonist/animator, 36. Living vicariously through my characters Melody & Liz. Please do not perceive me.

[nikoanesti]

Meet Melody & Liz, the funny witch and scientist girlfriends I draw all the time. Find more of them here, or elsewhere on the web below!

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[smallmariofindings]

In 1984, software called Family BASIC was released for the Famicom in Japan, which allowed the console to be programmed using the BASIC programming language via a keyboard connected to a controller port.

Various magazines published source code for original games, many of which featured Mario due to him being one of the included sample graphics. Here is an illustration for a type-in game called "Evil Castle" from a 1988 issue of the micomBASIC magazine.

Source: vghistory

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[mothcub]

Do it for them.

[suppermariobroth]

Original illustration used for a 1986 officially licensed Super Mario Bros. jigsaw puzzle from Japan.

Source: blacktangent

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[obsessedbyneon]

Broadway Melodies Theater on the Rhapsody of the Seas cruise ship

Scan

[miskiart]

aquatic nostalgia

[liminal-x-wave]

𝙑 𝙃 𝙎 𝘿 𝙍 𝙀 𝘼 𝙈 𝙎 楽園で

[obsessedbyneon]

I continue with scans from 'Entertainment Destinations' after a long break. This is the theaters part. 'That's Entertainment Theater' on the Legend Of The Seas cruise ship.

Scan

[suppermariobroth]

Super Mario World concept art only ever shown once, extremely briefly, during a montage in the September 2025 Nintendo Direct, while the camera was panning across it. Here is the artwork stitched together from all frames showing it, at the highest resolution available from the video.

Source: LadySophie17

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[smallmariofindings]

Officially licensed 1989 sweatshirt themed after Mario's overalls. Note that the area to the left and right of the suspenders is miscolored, creating red segments on the "shirt" portion that is supposed to be blue.

This is likely due to the manufacturing process; doing this allows for the middle portion to be made out of mostly red fabric with only a single blue segment in the middle, and the back of it to be entirely red, while doing it the "correct" way would have required additional blue segments on the back as well.

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[yodaprod]

1979

[suppermariobroth]

The original storyboards for the North American 2010 commercial for Super Mario Galaxy 2 contain a piece of Super Mario Bros. fan art from DeviantArt.

Top: the storyboards, recovered from internal files of the ad agency. Middle: zooming in on the frame with the TV reveals an image of Super Mario Bros. in 3D. Bottom: this is the 2008 fan art "Nintendo 3D Mario" by DeviantArt user "NES--still-the-best", which was extremely popular and commonly reposted online at that time.

Source: discovery, original artwork

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[aaron-long]

[yxngtrxll]

[nintendometro]

Course Clear ‘Super Mario 3D Land’ Nintendo 3DS

[oddarette]

Star Shrimp is unapologetically gorgeous. The most beautiful shrimp in the galaxsea 🦐✨

[wups-up]

Your fear of drawing big noses is holding you back. Embrace the big nose. Heed its call.