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Submitted: November 5, 2006
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Forget the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy and the "old" Super Mario Sunshine. Forget all of the Mario role playing games he ever been part of. Forget all the craze about the Mario Party serie. Forget Yoshi, Wario, Daisy and Professor E. Gadd. Forget that Mario was born in the Mushroom Kingdom and that he has been seen as a baby in the games. Forget everything... and go back to the basics, when all he was doing was stomping on a few turtles or beat masked guys by shooting them veggies.

What you have here is one of the first officiel design of Mario, as well as one of the most famous poses used to promote the games, during the era of NES, with Super Mario Bros. in 1985, and later both versions of Super Mario Bros. 2, in 1986 and 1987. Did anybody really knew the fat plumber would've gotten that popular? Well, he isn't even fat anymore. And he's not anymore depicted as a plumber. That just tells you how much time has passed since his fist appearance in the games.

I originally had the idea of taking the famous Super Mario Bros. 2 cover, and redo it completely into Adobe Illustrator. But after some time I decided I'd do only the Mario part and improvise on the rest. The result is a wallpaper, that you can all download and enjoy. There is only one size though, being 1024 x 768 pixels. There is a possibility to resize it, but the graphics from the game in the background would lose their alias property, and that would look pretty bad.

So, yeah, all redrawn in Adobe Illustrator and colored into Adobe Photoshop. The graphics in the background are directly ripped from the game via an emulator (I don't remember which one, whatever). The mushrooms are also redone in Illustrator.

Anyway, enjoy this little blast from the past, wear it proudly on your computer screen. And even with the coming of the biggest revolution in gaming history that Nintendo Wii will bring to us, don't ever forget the origins of the most ever recognized video game icon!

Super Mario Bros. and all graphics are (C) Nintendo. Didn't you know?

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~Libert1 Dec 18, 2012

super mario bros. 2 was an odd game. the fatal veggies, the pac-man cherries, the mysterious night time potion, the lame enemies, the "POW" block, the lack of power ups such as the super mushroom or fire flower. and no bowser?! what were they thinking turning Doki Doki Panic into a SMB title? don't get me wrong, i enjoyed SMB2 as a kid but i wouldn't consider it a staple in the super mario series any more than super mario sunshine, which was also fun, but lacking in a lot of areas.
i haven't played through any of the titles after sunshine because i don't have a wii, but i think it'd be great if nintendo developed a super mario 64 style platformer with updated graphics and all the essential characters and the best powerups like the mushrooms, the fireflower, a flying mechanism such as the cape, tanuki suit, or wingcap. the awesome enemies like koopas and the dinosaurs, homing shells (SMW). and the lava surfing from 64. loved that.
anyway really cool wallpaper and nice shading! gives this classic artwork a niceupdated look. i like the mario you picked (fat mario is so much more badass -- like if danny devito grew a mustache and became a super hero.)
sorry about the rant lol