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This is the modern color scheme.

What was the first game to use this and when did it become the standard?

The characters have been pretty consistent since Kotabe first drew them (1986).

>>10471328
>What was the first game to use this
The FC/NES port of Mario Bros 1983 iirc
>when did it become the standard
SMB3

the only canon mario

>>10471319
>When did Nintendo establish a consistent color scheme for Mario?

1988, the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 3 basically established the blue overalls and red undershirt. In the US/ NA, Mario retained his red overalls until about 1990. Super Mari Land box art and Mario 3 box art were the first times Mario was seen with blue overalls.

>>10471435
>Mario retained his red overalls until about 1990. Super Mari Land

Whoops, 1989, was the first time Mario had this colour scheme in the western box art with Super Mario Land.

Super Mario Bros 2J box art.

Super Mario Bros 2 US box art from 1988. Even though Mario's sprite actually has blue overalls in the game. But this was localized during the development of Super Mario Bros 3 in Japan. The US marketing still went with the red overalls.

>man owns multiple sets of clothes
impossible

>>10471490
I wear the same clothes (non uniform) daily at work.

>>10471461

>>10471468
Id say sm64 solidified the change from smb2 forever.

>>10472662
>Id say sm64 solidified the change from smb2 forever.

I dunno, Mario was pretty consistent throughout the SNES era.

>>10472930
I think Anon is referring to "Perfect Mario", which is basically the exact precise shape of Mario and his head in particular that's still used today. SM64 was a big step towards that exact look, especially in the promotional renders

>>10472946

>>10472953
>Mario has a perfect form
The lore deepens

>>10472946
>I think Anon is referring to "Perfect Mario", which is basically the exact precise shape of Mario and his head in particular that's still used today. SM64 was a big step towards that exact look, especially in the promotional renders

Oh sure, I get what you are saying. Yeah, from the Mario 64 renders onwards, his design has been basically unchanged.

His SMW in-game deptiction is still my favorite incarnation of this fella

>yfw next mario game makes him blue again
>just like how the current Link and Samus are in their bluish attire for market sake.

>>10472235
>at work
I don't see any actual plumbing going on in any Super Mario game, anon.

>>10473304
new game idea
super mario installs a septic tank and charges 300 coins/hour labor

>>10473304
Mario Bros. is arguably a plumbing game. A really fucked up one where the pipes are full of turtles and crabs.

>>10472946
Mario (Forma Perfecto)

>>10473308
If you've ever played Overcooked! a plumbing game like that where Mario and Luigi have to go around a house maintaining the plumbing could be pretty fun. Add in Bowser and Wario deliberately sabotaging it by clogging toilets like assholes and it'd be a great party game.

>>10472986
ohbnosbros we wuz too late