A lifelong fan's game-by-game retrospective on the Super Mario series!
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| It's Super Mario's World, we just live in it |
“It's a bit more exciting! A bit more challenging! A bit more perfect! A bit more colorful! A bit more realistic! A bit more levels! A bit more secrets! A bit more enemies! A bit more friends! A bit more sound! A bit hotter! A bit cooler! A bit weirder! A bit more revolutionary! A bit more Mario! A bit more of what you want! It's 16-Bit, and it's yours only if you get Super Nintendo!”
- Super Mario World TV commercial
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| I always found Bowser's cape here to be really cool, and was a little disappointed he never wore it in the games. |
“Oh, it's terrible!
The king has been transformed!
Please find the Magic Wand so we can change him back.”
- Toad
"So, I give you... SUPER! MARIO BROTHERS! THREE!!"
-Video Armageddon announcer, The Wizard
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| An adventure so epic Mario has to duplicate himself twice on the box! |
“Welcome, and enter the center
Of my Super Mario adventure
A girl is trapped on the other side of town
So I'm moving in leaps and bounds
Folks around my way think I'm strange
But there's a villain to blame
Even my ma, she thinks I'm crazy
But I've got to rescue Daisy”
- Ambassadors of Funk, “Supermarioland”
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| Pretend there's a green filter over every screenshot for the full Game Boy effect (source for all images is mariowiki.com, as usual) |
The Facts
Release Date: April 21, 1989 (Japan), July 31, 1989 (USA)
Original Platform: Game Boy
Director: Satoru Okada
Producer: Gunpei Yokoi
Also Playable On: Virtual Console (3DS)
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| Nothing like the voice of the greatest tag-team manager of all time coming from your favorite video game character to clue you in to the fact you're in for something special |
“Hey, paisanos! It's The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!”
- Mario
This is a section of the blog titled "Super Mario Beyond", where we'll cover parts of this franchise that don't belong to the main series of platformer video games!
And this first entry in "Super Mario Beyond" is the 1989 animated/live-action TV series: The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
The Facts
Air Date: September 4-December 1, 1989
Channel: First-run syndication
Executive Producer: Steve Binder, Andy Heyward
Episodes: 65 (130 total segments)
Currently Available On: WildBrain's Cartoon Super Heroes YouTube Channel
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| To sleep—perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub! That makes calamity of so long life. Than fly to others that we know not of? |
“When Mario opened a door after climbing a long stair in his dream, another world spread before him and he heard a voice call for help to be freed from a spell. After awakening, Mario went to a cave nearby and to his surprise he saw exactly what he saw in his dream....”
- Intro Screen
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| Unless otherwise indicated, mariowiki.com is still the source of most images |
The Facts
Release Date: October 9, 1988 (USA), September 14, 1992 (Japan)
Original Platform: NES
Director: Kensuke Tanabe
Producer: Shigeru Miyamoto, Hiroshi Yamauchi
Also Playable On: Famicom, Nintendo PlayChoice-10, SNES (remake), Satellaview, GBA (remake), Virtual Console (Wii, 3DS, Wii U), NES Classic Edition, Nintendo Switch Online
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| Are you ready for this? You're not. You think you're ready for this, but you're not. |
“We present Fantasy World. Let's try "9 World" with one game.”
- World 9 Intro Screen
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| Unless otherwise indicated, mariowiki.com is still the source of most images |
The Facts
Release Date: June 3, 1986 (Japan)
Original Platform: Famicom Disk System
Director: Takashi Tezuka
Producer: Unknown
Also Playable On: SNES (remake), Game Boy Color (quasi-remake), Game Boy Advance, Virtual Console (Wii, 3DS, Wii U), Nintendo Switch Online, 35th Anniversary Game & Watch
“THANK YOU MARIO!
BUT OUR PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE!”
- Mushroom Retainer
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| Warning: this article is gonna be a LONG one |
The Facts
Release Date: September 13, 1985 (Japan), Unknown for certain but possibly October 18, 1985 (North America)
Original Platform: Famicon (Japan), Nintendo Entertainment System (North America)
Director: Shigeru Miyamoto
Producer: Shigeru Miyamoto
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