I dig it.

Wow. They’re totally missing Mario from Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and the original Mario Bros.

It’s funny how he devolves back the the Super Mario Brothers 3 Mario several times during the evolution (3 was the only game to have Racoon, Frog and Tanooki Mario if I’m not mistaken). And where’s the Super Mario 64 Mario?

Yeah.. the Super Mario 64 mario was quite awkward Even his cover-art rendered version was a bit weird. Still figuring him out in 3D I suppose.

My favorite is still the Super Mario World mario sprite. So colorful, and has that great “look up” animation

Sweet Mario wallpaper; thanks 4CR.

My favorite Super Mario is from Super Mario Bros. 3. I suppose it’s because I loved that game so much. I mean, back in the day, my parents probably thought I needed a psychiatrist, since I was always playing that game. Ah, the memories…

Yeah, definitely, I really grew up with Super Mario Bros. 3 and to me Super Mario World was just an extension of its gameplay, not the sort of heart-stopping revolutionary game a lot of people consider it to be. Not that it’s bad by any means, of course.

It’s funny how many random spin-off fads were started by Mario, as well, from “put your main character in a kart racer” to “have your main character play a random sport” which have been copied by franchises from Crash Bandicoot to Mega Man.

I still massively prefer the old SMB3 2D art over the current 3D renderings of him.

But I guess that’s mostly because I’m completely sick of seeing those 3D renders on 50,000 different “Mario” games.

(I also detest his voice, with a passion.)

I spy Luigi on the back of the kart!

There’s no lumpy Super Mario RPG Mario either

It makes me wonder why the Tanooki suit still hasn’t made a return

Thank you for the wallpaper

Baby Mario?

Low res is low

Yay for new wallpaper. My old one was getting…

well…

old. Hehe.

Maybe the reason I prefer the look of the SMW sprite is because of the colors… The Mario 3 sprite just looked so plump and somehow less colorful than previous Marios. The game was fantastic though

Cool wallpaper! There’s IS a bunch of omissions and duplicate Marios though, as a few people have said. Not a definitive evolution, but cool nonetheless.

I don’t know why there’s a link on my name that I didn’t put there.

ohhh… sorry. It’s because of my previous post. I’ll stop spamming now :-S Again, awesome desktop

I’m glad the “Mario & Luigi” version made it in there (the only one with the black M on the hat) — it’s distinct traditional illustration style is really endearing.

Yeah, now that someone has mentioned it, the quasi-3D isometric Mario from SMRPG is pretty important to the “evolution”.