In 1986, Super Mario Bros. Special, a licensed version of Super Mario Bros. for the Japanese NEC PC-8801 and Sharp X1 home computers, was released by Hudson Soft. As was usual for new releases at the time, video game magazines ran print ads for the game for a few months after its release.
However, unlike the vast majority of print ads, this one was not merely reprinted every month, but kept continuously being updated to make Peach and Bowser more accurate to their artwork in other Mario games until they looked the most on-model in the final version of the ad.
Top left: initial version, with reversed dress colors for Peach and a unique lavender color scheme for Bowser.
Top right: first revision, Peach’s dress fixed, Bowser now mostly orange with his head being green on top, but parts of his arms and his eye area still being lavender.
Bottom left: second revision, Bowser almost entirely fixed, though his eye area is still lavender.
Bottom right: final revision, lavender color completely removed from Bowser, though his eye area and forehead are different shades of green.
