SUPER MARIO LAND 2: 6 GOLDEN COINS (Game Boy, 1992)

“Obey me, Wario...I am your master, Mario is your enemy!

Don’t let Mario get the 6 Golden Coins...don’t let Mario reach the palace…

Obey Wario...DESTROY MARIO!”

- Wario, hypnotizing the viewer in theTV commercial

 

SUPER MARIO BEYOND: SUPER MARIO ADVENTURES (Comic, 1992)

 “We are the Mushroom Kingdom’s plumbers extraordinaire!

The Super Mario Brothers, what a pair!

Do you have problems with your pipes?

Is your water running right?

Are all the fittings screwed down tight?

If they aren’t, don’t despair!

The super plumbers will be there!

And there’s no pipe we can’t repair!”

- Mario and Luigi, singing

 

The cover of the 1993 trade paperback (TPB) collection

SUPER MARIO WORLD (SNES, 1991)

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

SUPER MARIO BROS. 3 (NES, 1990)

 

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

 

SUPER MARIO LAND (Game Boy, 1989)

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”

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)

SUPER MARIO BEYOND: THE SUPER MARIO BROS. SUPER SHOW! (TV, 1989)

 

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

SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 (NES, 1988)

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

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