SM64 Mario is like Peter Griffin; No matter what craziest, wackiest stuff he would do, he wouldn't look out of place doing it and we would all enjoy watching him do it.

Fun fact: the reason Mario seems so short in Galaxy is because they crunched him down slightly so that his hitbox could be condensed into a sphere (since, due to the gravity mechanics, he'd be rotating every which way, and a circular hitbox results in fewer chances for weirdness).

Mario 64 Mario looks like a little woodland creature that likes to go in dumpsters to eat moldy cornbread

tbh i love mario 64 mario. he's like a slightly more chibified goofy little guy. yet a high-maintenance pet you have to constantly keep an eye on to make sure he doesn't mess up your house

I love SM64 Mario precisely because he looks so stupid. Especially the lower poly version that appears if the camera is far away

sm64 mario would be even more beautiful if he didnt have the same dead pan stare 24/7

SM64 Mario being described as "He's ready for a school field trip" is such a good way to describe how i feel about him he's so goofy and he looks like a mischievous entity i would find in the woods.

I like Mario Odyssey's Mario. It's like an animated movie, cartoony and detailed.

I agree with you at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="311">5:11</a>, this is toddler Mario. Mario says he wants to show me something cool, I watch and he just jumps and does a spin. He also looks like he’s going to ask me what games are on my phone, or maybe like he is about to say “Can you play toys with me”

The main reason Super Mario Advance 1 and 2 Mario have bright, pale colors is because the GBA screen was quite dim, so they wanted the ingame graphics to be as easy to see on such dim screen as possible, which is ironic, since a lamp was needed to see the GBA screen

"this isn't Mario, this is a smoker" is the funniest shit I've heard this year so far

Everyone is taking this video so seriously, this is just poking fun at those sprites and nothing else, this video was pretty fun to watch, thx :3

Good video, the only problem is the fact that SM64 Mario is currently outside my house trying to BLJ through my window and OH NO HE'S IN HERE

we respect 3D Land and 3D Land mario in this household awesome video :]

i think the reason sm64 feels so goofy is that he's literally constantly cross-eyed lmaoooo

galaxy mario dislocates his shoulders each time he turns his head

Mario world mario is PEAK IMO I remember playing a flash game with the mario world mario sprite where you run around with a shotgun killing all the enemies from mario world. Badass stuff I swear.

SM64 Mario has a charming look, doesn't even look the same character and that's funny and cool to me. Awesome video!

Fun Fact: Mario _was_ originally intended to have blue be the secondary colour instead of green-brown in SMB1's development, but at some point they changed it, probably because the blue kinda blended in with the daytime overworld and underwater levels

For the NES, each sprite only had four colors to work with - and if you wanted transparency, that ate up one of your precious color slots. That's why the colors seem "off" for SMB2 and SMB3. (The white of the yes for the SMB2 sprite was done by layering a *second* sprite over it.)

I actually really like this video alot, because its nice to see someone point out the old and new sprites like this! As well as your humor, editing, and commentary. You are SERIOUSLY underrated!

The Super Mario Advance 2 sprite isn't _more_ saturated, it's _desaturated_ - the saturation is lower, making it paler instead of brighter. Lighter and brighter aren't the same thing, especially in the digital art world. This was of course an attempt to account for the GBA's lack of backlighting, to make him light enough to see when an external light is being shone onto the screen.

As someone who does really enjoy the Mario 3 sprite, I couldn't help but laugh when you said "Let's go over the positives. The tone of red looks better," and then immediately stopped talking. I think my favorite sprite is Mario 2, actually. It's wild how close they nailed it on their second try, and it's got that round jolly man energy I want from my Mario. Colors are a little off, but that's due to NES palette restrictions, so I won't hold it against them.

i like SMW's beta Small Mario sprite, mostly because he looks like a cube.

seeing “bad mario” again brought me 1 billion memories damn (also hotel mario gameplay sprite is goated)🔥🔥🔥🔥

About the ds game, he's actually a 3D model

Smg4 does not help how unserious 64 bit Mario is This man’s is the follow up to powerful killer sprite of World/Land 2 and it makes the transition even funnier

I feel like you missed some huge points by not talking about spinoffs, guest appearances in other games, and lower poly versions of in game models. Talking about low poly Mario 64 Mario, early Mario Party Marios, and Brawl Mario seems like they’d all be very in line, and it’s honestly jaw-dropping that you made a weird Marios video without even mentioning Mario Teaches Typing. Also imo, the Odyssey model is really good, at least in the renders. It does a nice job of making him look *detailed* without trying to make him look *realistic*, therefore preserving his cartoony form whilst still keeping his level of detail in line with the world around him. That game was made to look beautiful and detailed, and I couldn’t really imagine a lower detail model like 3D World running around in the blacktop and brick buildings of New Donk. At least they didn’t give him individual teeth like Luigi got in some Luigi’s Mansion 3 renders.

I was hoping you would bring up the skidding sprite from the first Super Mario Bros. Now THAT'S a weird sprite. It looks so much more detailed and... muscular... than every other sprite.

SM64 Mario looks like a whimsical forest creature. I'd let him eat birdseed off my hand.

The reason the SMA SMW sprite is so saturated is because the old GBA didn’t have backlights. Being overly saturated kinda helped with the lack of a backlight.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="133">2:13</a> each sprite is limited to only 3 colors on the nes, they couldnt have added a fourth color for his buttons!!!

I know your talking about main line mario games but you can't forget about the mario & luigi sprites along with their 3D models! the sprites from the 3DS look so good and the models of them for the giant fights are amazing as well, honestly my favorite look for mario along with wonder

Bro really saw tan/olive skin and said "diseased"

SMW mario the type of person to kick a poison mushroom on your mouth while you are trying to be a news reporter

This is probably because I'm a SM64 Machinamist, but SM64 Mario is my favourite, on top. And then there's SMB3, 2 and 1, ones I like because of the style.

For me, SMW’s SMALL Mario is the weirdest, but not because he’s the strangest or the most unique like SMB Mario is. Something about his small form radiates “that one kid who got lost on the field trip and is now stuck for the night” energy. Like he’s silently saying “Where’s my mommy” under his breath. Little man just has zero brain cells.

I honestly love smb 1 and 3’s Mario sprites, and I’ll explain why. 1: Mario is so simplistic, and even with his big sprite, he just looks like a silly little guy. The small Mario sprite is very iconic, and it makes sense because it looks like what it’s supposed to look like; a human, and it doesn’t look severely deformed or anything. 3: ok, the black overalls were honestly a good design choice for this game. It just makes Mario more unique in this game and not like the other games. Also, the no legs makes it look better and more… cute? to me.

SM64, Sunshine, And Galaxy + Wonder Are All my Favorite Marios

i just realized if you look at the smb3 sprite too long it looks like mario’s moustache is a goofy smile

Ok so this video is blowing up, so I want to say a few things that are leading people to misunderstanding the point of this video: 1. I am aware *why* these sprites look the way they do. I said at the beginning that hardware limitations led to some interesting sprites. But I’m making fun of them anyways because they look silly regardless. Not trying to say they could do better despite the old hardware. 2. Some of yall are taking this way too seriously. This video was meant to be fun, I’m not actually hating on any of these sprites, I actually love the weirder ones. I thought it was a popular joke that mario sprites looked funny but I guess I’m wrong. So please enjoy the video and don’t take everything I say seriously. But anyways, on a lighter note, thanks for getting me to 300 subscribers! I want to plan something special but idk what yet

the description of like everything is so awesome. i love the crunchyass 'M' on sm64 mario's hat

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="331">5:31</a> now that you mention Mario sprites looking like they have huge thighs, I can't unsee it from that one

Mario in NSMB is a full 3D model. That's why A: he moves fluently. And B: completely clear from compression when exported. It's just the DS being weird when 3D models are rendered.

Now the weirdest Luigi Sprites/Models

I'd say this is more of an "evolution of mario's look" than going over weird/obscure sprites but regardless i enjoyed this vid a lot. nice c:

"This is not Mario. This is a smoker." lmfao

The Mario Advance ones are bright because the original Gameboy Advanced had poor screen lighting I think but it didn't have that problem for the SP gameboy so they didn't light them up for Advance 4

I remember seeing a post somewhere saying that the marketing and in game SM64 Mario’s a different characters, the marketing is just Mario but in game is, as the post says, “a curious animal, like a deer”, and I feel like that sums him up pretty well

The reason Mario is so washed out in the early advance games was to account for the fact that the original game boy advance didn’t have a backlit screen, so they made the colors less saturated to make it easier to see in darker lighting environments, the reason advance 4 doesn’t do this is because the game boy advance sp had just released, which did have a backlit screen.

So I saw you on My for you page and decided to watch this video now I am a fan and think you are underrated and I have been watching your past videos. Good job BTW my favorite design of mario is 3d land and wonder

Hey, if Power Star and Super Bad Mario are anything to go off of, SMW Mario is peak menace. And I have a thing for menacing models, so that's a win for me.

The thing with New Super Mario Bros. is that Mario IS actually rendered as a 3D model at all times; there are multiple points in the game where Mario is spinning around and it probably wouldn’t look as smooth if he were just a sprite.

When I saw nsmb Mario at such high resolution I let out a good long wheeze that sounded like I had a respiratory problem

that part about the sprite animations is so true lol i can never look at his smw sprite the same

This is the best god dam video i’ve seen all week

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="52">0:52</a> Was one of the segments of all time ngl.

Dude, you should do another video but now with Mario's models from the Smash series. New sub, btw. Keep in up!

Super Mario Land Mario feels like he came straight out of the Twilight Zone.

i find it kinda weird how you can see mario's other shoe kinda sticking behind like he's doing a sonic pose or smth in the smb2 sprite

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="359">5:59</a> I didn't even think about it, you just had to brought it up

i think the original mario sprite looks the funniest because his head is facing the side, but his body is facing frontwards

Bro you are so underrated I swear

I once had a dream of SM64 Mario chasing me around a dark abandoned library, so, that model low key scares me. U just have to really imagine it to understand. That specific model...in a dark environment...running straight for u. You'd be scared, too.

Ima subscribe this is amazing

First person I've ever actually seen actually rate the Mario sprites instead of other ones or the game.

Very cool video, where the subscribers at tho at the very least this video is great

Back when most of my exposure to Mario came from Flash games, I used to call the SMW sprite the "violent Mario" because he was the one always used in violent games. I remember two of them in particular, one was a shooter game that featured SMW Mario with an assault rifle, and the other one was an autoscroller featuring SMW Mario with a shotgun.

I feel like this is such an elephant in the room when it comes to the franchise (no pun intended)

comment section taking this video way too seriously lol

Never thought I’d see Mario described as strange creature

missed opportunity to cover the rpgs and cameos, would’ve loved to see you acknowledge smbz’s existence also smassmb3 mario doesn’t have gloves unlike the sma4 mario but w/e

fyi: The Advance 1 and 2 sprites are brighter to get around the issue of the original Gameboy Advance lacking a backlight.

i have no nostalgia attached to it cause i was literally born in 2004, but i always loved mario 64 mario he just looks so silly and doinky, he is very cute imo, i kind of enjoy the exaggerated goofy artstyle over the more.. realistic- ish modern mario design

I almost want you to review mario kart sprites and models now lol

I believe the mario galaxy mario model had to be shrinked so he would better fit his spherical hitbox, since he would be running out in every direction, a sphere being uniform would help a lot with that. Idk if that's true but im 99% sure that the hitbox in that game is spherical, so it would make sense.

The internet has forever changed how I think of the SMW and 64 Mario’s. I’m not mad but I blame GameMaster and SMG4 for that.

SM64 and World are my favorite, And i find the smb1 all stars sprite off feeling, prob due to me growing up with super mario flash before all stars so it feels like its a flash game sprite more than super nintendo, also the gba sprites are overly saturated due to the GBA's screeen (not the sp or ds)

M64 Mario is what I imagine parents see when their kids wake them up at 3 am bc they threw up

Banger video 🔥

Honestly I think GameCube Mario looks much more menacing than SMW or anything else, his eyebrows are so damn angry

Thank God you didn't mention the small sprites he's so pissed off in them 😭😂

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="422">7:02</a> He is, in fact, a 3D model, but isn't a sprite. The DS resolution did him dirty.

well, no jokes now, seeing them outside of being in game and when they are most away from the screen, they're are really weird, not bad, but it's looks different from what Mario was supposed to be, that gives a different style that playing on game it's gives a great vibe because of everything into it, like background and animations, but seeing the sprites separately of everything gives a kinda felling of "that's different!".

NSMB Mario *is* actually a model, most people cut him out of screenshots from the game being emulated to make "sprites" of him due to the game's small resolution and lack of anti-aliasing.

sm64 mario is so goofy looking i don't even see him as mario, he's just a creature to me

Most of the issues with earlier games are basically due to hardware limitations

SMG4 certainly didn't help in me viewing SM64's Mario model as just HILARIOUS!

fun fact: the reason the early super mario advance games look generally bright is cause it was made that way to be seen easier on a gameboy screen. now this feature doesnt do anything for the game boy advance sp cause it has a backlight

He forgot that the mario vs donkey kong remake got mario caught in 4K

… no _Donkey Kong_ or _Mario Bros?_ Why not?

You should've done the side games as well. Bowser's Inside Story is probably the best sprite-based Mario game of them all

great video! i've always wondered what the old sprites/models would look like if they were faithfully recreated with a higher pixel/poly count, esp smb1 and sm64 here a few thoughts (don't take any criticisms too seriously, this is me thinking out loud more than anything): -you should've done the small mario sprites too, they're all sorts of funky. also the donkey kong arcade game and mario bros arcade game. ik you said you wouldn't do spinoffs, but i don't rly consider them spinoffs per se, since they're the games from which mainline mario is spun off from -why did you completely skip all-stars smb2? what? -i've always thought mario's hat and shirt were weirdly pink in smw, and i'm surprised you only talked about that when discussing sma2. seriously, look at the color they use for normal mario's hat/shirt, compared to fire mario. what's going on there? -erm 🤓the sma2 sprite isn't actually any more saturated than in snes smw, it's just brighter 🤓 -yeah i think mario's always been short. look at his height compared to peach in sm64. his canonical height is 5'1 - *i* am taller than mario and thinking about that scares me -you completely skipped over sm64ds too. ik it's the same as nsmb but if anything i think you shouldve talked about sm64ds instead -i kinda feel like from ~2005 to 2016 mario's artstyle got really generic and banal, galaxy games and low-poly ds models notwithstanding. i actually like the odyssey model's uncanniness specifically because it stands out. also i feel like in some ways the slight uncanniness serves to add charm rather than remove it? like instead of it being off-putting it's... on-putting. does that make sense?

64 Mario is basically just a sewer rat you found one day, eating your stale popcorn.

SM64 Mario is so cute, hell you mean?

yooo gg man for this new vidéo

i enjoy SMW mario because bro is always cross eyed it makes em look more derpy then he is supposed to look also its the most iconic mario sprite for me

Fun fact: NSMB Mario uses the exact same model throughout the ENTIRETY of the series. Which is in turn, the same exact model as 64DS

you should take a look at the weirder sprites/models from the games that aren't even mario games (like pikmin), and the obscurer mario games (like mario & wario) lol

oh yes, he didn't talk about the SM64DS model (precisely the one they also used for NSMB without pixelation)