/vr/ - Retro Games

Go to the Mario Wiki, look at any game or character, and then go to the gallery. You'll find what is most likely the highest quality images of each game and character that is available online.

Seriously, if whatever you are looking for isn't there, it's probably not available in decent quality.

Mario Encyclopedia is coming out in the US later this year, it's sure to have a lot of old and new artwork in pretty good quality.

>>4720639
There's a lot of stuff that isn't on the wikis.

For starters, you got the awesome work scanbro did with the APE SMW guides, lots of good art in there
>>/vr/thread/S3340363#p3344876

Read the manual. It has all sorts of weird shit.

https://legendsoflocalization.com/media/super-mario-bros/manuals/Super-Mario-Bros-Manual-US.pdf

>>4720625
Encyclopedia Super Mario Bros has a pretty comprehensive collection of artwork, but since it's more info-focused the repro size is on the small side (though not that smaller than it originally appeared on the manuals)

DID YOU KNOW Miyamoto did the original cover artwork by himself apparently

>>4720712
And Bowser was originally a bull as shown in that artwork.

>>4720712
I thought he hired some manga artist to do it when he determined his art was shit.

>>4720720
This WAS shit art by their standards back then, but they kept it for time constraints probably. They got Yoichi Kotabe (sort of the fifth Beatle of the Studio Ghibli crowd) to take it from there and do the spot pieces and whatnot, and he eventually would do most of the best known Mario art.

>>4720720
That WAS shit art by their standards back then, but they kept it for time constraints probably. They got Yoichi Kotabe (sort of the fifth Beatle of the Studio Ghibli crowd) to take it from there and do the spot pieces and whatnot, and he eventually would do most of the best known Mario art.

Blake Harris, the author of Console Wars found this a few years ago and scanned it. Grab some popcorn OP because you my friend are in for a treat. Everything you could ever want to know and more about Mario is in here. From his favorite music being new-wave, high-techno Euro pop, to the fact Mario's destiny was established from the moment he fixed a friend's squirt gun, to Yoshi's full name.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/w1p6u0nz3lpxpu0/Nintendo%20Character%20Guide%20%281996%29.pdf?dl=0

>>4720712
My bedroom was a Nintendo shrine back in 1987-88 (after that it gradually became a TMNT temple) and it had that art. It's still my favorite even if its kind of wonky.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CnIcESafXU

kino.

>>4720712
looks like bowser's getting a good tittie cup there

>>4720712
Makes sense, wasn't he originally hired to do art in the first place?

>>4722020
Best potrayal of the bros outside of the Mario and Luigi games.

this is canon btw

>>4722017
Wow what a jerk

>>4722587
Tony Stark with Thor's Hammer?

>>4722020

>>4723032

I feel it's hit or miss

>>4723247
I love that sticker album!
And yeah, it's hit or miss because those "miss" ones aren't really official art by Miyamoto or one of the NoJ guys, it's most likely done by someone maybe not even at NoA, but at Merlin (the company that did these sticker collections). For example that Koopa there looks all sort of bogus, it's probably traced from the pixelated version in the SMB game manual.
That Luigi also looks wacky.
But for example that Bowser is original japanese art and it looks great, that's also one of the few (or maybe only) full body picture of him wearing the purple cape and shoulder pads.

>>4723259
hold up just one fucking second
is
is peach DABBING in the background, there?

>>4723279

>>4723267
No, she's holding Luigi's hand

>>4722587
they should make a new dk based on this art

>>4723279
>>4723280

I actually like this Peach design more than the modern one.

>>4723259
>>4723304

>>4723259
>>4723304
>>4723321

>>4723323
That's one of the Merlin original art, do not steal

>>4723247
Why did they do away with the cape, it looks so good. You could argue it's so you could see his spiky shell, but honestly, Bowser covering his shell up with the cape and then tossing the cape aside right before battle would have been great for building tension ( not that it would have come into play until like, seventh gen consoles ).

>>4723883

Was Marlio a cuckold?

>>4724450
Nah

>>4724460
Oh my!

>>4723247
>>4723259
>>4723304
Very nice!
Sticker albums are most nostalgic to me.
Anybody had this?
The cover picture artstyle reminds me of Benimaru Itoh's style.

>>4724643
I always assumed the sharp toothed unofficial depictions of Wart on old Mario merch was just King Koopa.

Man I wish I would have kept all that old merch.

>>4724679
Wart has sharp teeth in official art.

That looks like a combination of Super Show King Koopa, Wart, and Bowser.

>>4723320
I'm rather fond of this one.

>>4720992
Another false Bowser

>>4724997
Dennis Hopper best Koopa.
Also, that SMW Bowser is fanart right? At least his bottom part.

>>4724985
In my defense, my parents didn't keep the manual with the official art, and in game, he had flat teeth.

>>4720625
This thread is great holy shit, there was something magical about old art from booklets

>>4722158
I would kill a man for a Mario World game using an art style like this. Wario shake style animation. I need it.

>>4725209
I heard they were considering it since they're supposedly done with the NSMB style.

>>4722156
>>4722158
>>4722419
Aren't these for Barcode Battler?

>>4725376
I think they aren't, they don't have any barcode at the back, but you can play some sort of game with them.

>>4723279
It looks like he is fucking her brains out.

>>4724643
i had this
i have to find a pdf of the whole thing now

>>4720625
In the 80s I had one of those bad boys

>>4722587
Sweet mullet, Billy Mitchell would be proud.

>>4725701

I miss when characters were allowed to appear slightly off model and in different art styles on merchandise.

These days they won't even allow characters expressions to deviate too far from their default neutral expression on their stock 3D models. Have you seen that abomination of a Luigi's Mansion remake where they removed the squash and stretch? I hate everything about the way Nintendo animates their characters.

>>4725701
Looks like the same artist did the cover for this sticker album and this one >>4724643
I'm still thinking it might be Benimaru Itoh. Looks like his style.

>>4725840
Seems like Nintendo really cracked down once Mario 3 launched. Almost never saw off model characters on official merchandise after that.

It's a shame.

>>4725868
I feel like there was at least a little bit of freedom in depicting the characters up until the gamecube era though. It was really the Wii era and onward where everyone had to be painfully on-model at all times. They're even remaking games like Luigi's Mansion and the Mario & Luigi games, where super exaggerated facial animations was a focal point, and removing them.

>>4725868
papa mario in wario colors. deepest lore.

>>4725006
Bowser was colored like this in SMW. Even though only half of his body was shown, logically it would've looked like that

>>4725986
Kek

>>4720738
>konged.com

you bastard

>>4720625
>Blonde hair
>Blue eyes
>Dictatorship
Hmm, seems familiar for some reason...

>>4720625
Proof that David Bowie is apart of the reptilian overlords that controls the government

>>4728125
It's Dennis Hopper.

>>4723267
Go away kid.

>>4720712
He wanted to be a cartoonist before he went into video games so it's reasonable.