List of non-video game media featuring Mario
The Mario media franchise extends out of video games into non-game media. Mario and themes related to the franchise have appeared in television shows, anime, films, comics and manga, merchandise, and musical performance.
Television
Films
Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach! (1986)
Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach![n 1] is a 1986 anime film based on the Super Mario Bros. video game. Directed by Masami Hata and produced by Masakatsu Suzuki and Tsunemasa Hatano, the plot centers on Mario and Luigi, who go on a quest to save Princess Peach from Bowser. It is notable for being the first film based on a video game, predating the live-action Super Mario Bros. film by seven years.
Super Mario Bros. (1993)
Super Mario Bros. is a 1993 American science-fiction comedy adventure fantasy film[7] based on the Japanese video game series of the same name by Nintendo and distributed by The Walt Disney Studios through Hollywood Pictures, thus becoming one of several rare occasions where Disney and Nintendo have collaborated. The film was directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, written by Parker Bennett, Terry Runté and Ed Solomon, and stars Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis, Fisher Stevens, Fiona Shaw and Richard Edson. The story revolves around the titular Mario brothers, as they find a parallel universe, ruled by the ruthless dictator King Koopa, who seeks to merge the two dimensions so that he can rule both worlds, leaving it up to Mario and Luigi to join forces with Princess Daisy, the daughter of the world's displaced King, to stop Koopa.
Super Mario Bros. was shot in both
Years later, however, commentators called it a cult film,[9] and has spawned a fan-made website,[10] a fan-made sequel comic,[11] and even a Blu-ray release in the United Kingdom.[12]
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a 2023 animated film adaptation of the franchise, produced by Illumination and Nintendo and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is co-produced by Nintendo fellow and series' creator Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri.[13] The film features the voices of Chris Pratt as Mario, Anya Taylor-Joy as Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek, and Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong; longtime Mario voice actor Charles Martinet features in a series of cameos.[14][15][16] In January 2020, Nintendo's President Shuntaro Furukawa stated that the film is "moving along smoothly" with the film aiming for release in 2023. Furukawa stated that Nintendo would own the rights to the film, and both Nintendo and Universal would fund the production of the film.[17] Meledandri called the film a "priority" for the Illumination animation studio.[18]
The film features an
.After the critical and commercial failure of the
The Super Mario Bros. Movie was released in the United States on April 5, 2023. The film received mixed reviews from critics, though audience reception was more positive. The film has grossed over $1.264 billion worldwide, setting multiple box-office records, including the biggest worldwide opening weekend for an animated film and the highest-grossing film based on a video game. It also became the second highest-grossing film of 2023 and the third-highest-grossing animated film.
Anime
Amada Anime Series: Super Mario Bros. | |
アマダアニメシリーズ スーパーマリオブラザーズ (Amada Anime Shirīzu Sūpā Mario Burazāzu) | |
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Genre | Adventure, comedy |
Original video animation | |
Produced by | Shinichiro Ueda |
Written by | Juri Yagi |
Studio | Studio Junio |
Released | August 3, 1989 |
Runtime | 15 minutes each |
Episodes | 3 |
Amada Anime Series: Super Mario Bros.
The openings for each video used a soundtrack cue from On Golden Pond, namely "New Hampshire Hornpipe".
Mario Kirby Masterpiece Video[n 3] is an 18-minute educational video released by HAL Laboratory in 1995 on VHS exclusively in Japan. The purpose of the video is to teach kanji to children by featuring two adventures starring Mario and Kirby separately, with still pictures narrated over by Mayumi Tanaka and kanji transcriptions.[19][20][21]
Super Mario's Fire Brigade
Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi's Adventure Land, [n 6] is a 28-minute interactive video anime based on Super Mario World released for Bandai's Terebikko system. The Terebikko allowed viewers to interact with the anime using a telephone-shaped microphone to answer multiple choice questions, such as what will hatch from Yoshi's egg. The cast includes Tōru Furuya as Mario, Yū Mizushima as Luigi, Yuriko Yamamoto as Peach, Chika Sakamoto as Yoshi and Takeshi Watabe as Bowser.[24][25][26]
Super Mario DS
Comics
Super Mario-kun
Super Mario-kun | |
スーパーマリオくん (Sūpā Mario-kun) | |
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Genre | Adventure, comedy |
Manga | |
Written by | Yukio Sawada |
Published by | Shogakukan |
English publisher | |
Magazine | CoroCoro Comic |
Demographic | Kodomo |
Original run | November 1990 – present |
Volumes | 56 |
Viz Media released the first English-language publication of CoroCoro's manga series in December 2020 under the title Super Mario Bros. Manga Mania.[32]
Other Super Mario children's manga
There is another manga series which ran for five volumes with exactly the same title as Sawada's Super-Mario-kun, although this series is instead written and drawn by Hiroshi Takase (嵩瀬ひろし), also published by Shogakukan but serialized in Pikkapika Comics.[33] Because of the identical titles, Sawada's and Takase's series are easily confused.[citation needed]
There is a
The Motoyama manga have other characters and give Mario powers he does not have in the games. Luke Plunkett of Kotaku described the work as "a wild ride".[35]
Nintendo Comics System
The Nintendo Comics System was a series of comic books published by Valiant Comics in 1990 and 1991.[36] It was part of a licensing deal with Nintendo, featuring characters from their video games and the cartoons based on them.
Super Mario Adventures
Super Mario Adventures
Gamebooks
Nintendo Gamebooks were gamebooks released in two series, Nintendo Adventure Books and You Decide on the Adventure, and based on video games created by Nintendo.
Electromechanical games
Nintendo has licensed several
Other electromechanical games licensed by Nintendo include a Mario Kart 64 slot machine made by Maygay,[49] as well as a series of Mario Fushigi medal games made by Capcom. The Mario Fushigi series began in 2003 with Super Mario Fushigi no Janjan Land, then Super Mario Fushigi no Korokoro Party in 2004, Super Mario Fushigi no Korokoro Party 2 in 2005, and Mario Party Fushigi no Korokoro Catcher.[citation needed]
Merchandise
Mario has appeared on lunch boxes, T-shirts, magazines, commercials (notably, in a
Events
In 2014 the
In March 2013, Nintendo began the
In September 2020, Nintendo started the Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary event, which lasted from September 3, 2020 to March 31, 2021. This event began with a Nintendo Direct which announced many games, as well as covering already released Mario themed merchandise, clothing and in game events.[68]
Theme parks
Super Nintendo World is a themed area within Universal Studios Japan and Universal Studios Hollywood, is under construction for Universal Epic Universe, and in development for Universal Studios Singapore. The iterations of this area and its attractions are themed to the Super Mario franchise, as well as the Yoshi's Island spin-off series, and the Donkey Kong Country series.
Music
The Super Mario series of video games has a large amount of music, much of it composed by Koji Kondo. The "Super Mario Bros. theme" is particularly well-known.
The Super Mario Bros. theme has been featured in many concerts, including "PLAY! Chicago",[69] the Columbus Symphony Orchestra,[70] Play! A Video Game Symphony,[71] and others.
The Video Games Live concert featured the theme performed by Koji Kondo.[72]
See also
Notes
- ^ スーパーマリオブラザーズ ピーチ姫救出大作戦!, Sūpā Mario Burazāzu: Piichi-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!
- ^ アマダアニメシリーズ スーパーマリオブラザーズ, Amada Anime Shirīzu: Sūpā Mario Burazāzu
- ^ マリオ・カービィ 名作ビデオ, Mario Kirby Meisaku Video
- ^ スーパーマリオの消防隊, Super Mario no Shōbōtai
- ^ スーパー マリオ の 交通 安全, Super Mario no Koutsuuanzen
- ^ スーパーマリオワールド マリオとヨッシーの冒険ランド, Sūpā Mario Wārudo Mario to Yosshī no Bōken Rando
- ^ スーパーマリオくん, Sūpā Mario-kun
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