The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 facts for kids
Quick facts for kids The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 |
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| Genre | Adventure Fantasy |
| Created by | Shigeru Miyamoto (original characters) |
| Developed by | Reed Shelly Bruce Shelly |
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| Directed by | John Grusd |
| Voices of | Walker Boone Tony Rosato Tracey Moore John Stocker Harvey Atkin Dan Hennessey Gordon Masten Michael Stark James Rankin Paulina Gillis Stuart Stone Tara Charendoff |
| Composer(s) | Evan Roberts Joellyn Cooperman Michael Tavera Paige Ashley |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 26 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Andy Heyward |
| Producer(s) | John Grusd |
| Editor(s) | Mark A. McNally Sue Odjakjian Warren Taylor |
| Running time | 24 minutes (11 minutes per segment) |
| Production company(s) | DIC Animation City Nintendo of America Reteitalia S.p.A. |
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| Original network | NBC (U.S.) Italia 1 (Italy) |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | September 8 – December 1, 1990 |
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| Preceded by | The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (1989) |
| Followed by | Super Mario World (1991) |
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 is an American animated television series. It premiered on September 8, 1990, on NBC. It is the second animated series to be based on the Mario video game, following on from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and preceding Super Mario World, and is loosely based upon the video game Super Mario Bros. 3.
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Overview
Unlike its predecessor, the series dropped the use of live-action segments, Wart's minions and King Koopa's alter-egos, featured an entirely new cast with the exceptions of John Stocker and Harvey Atkin, who reprised their respective roles as Toad and King Koopa, established a level of continuity in stories, and featured the introduction of a set of characters called the Koopalings, based upon the same characters from the Mario games but with different names to their official counterparts. Episodes were divided into two segments of around 11 minutes each, always opened by a title card featuring world-map footage taken from Super Mario Bros. 3, and often featured the use of power-ups and other elements from the game. The only episode to not feature world-map footage is "Kootie Pie Rocks". Although Nintendo modified the character designs from the Mario franchise and flipped the shirt and overall colors of Mario and Luigi's, DIC decided to keep the character designs from its predecessor, but beginning with "Princess Toadstool for President", Mario's hair color is changed to brown while Luigi's hair stays black. However, the Shout! Factory DVD cover depicts Mario wearing his modern colors from the video games.
Format
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 focuses on Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool, who reside in the Mushroom World. Most of the episodes revolve around the four characters' efforts to prevent the attacks made by King Koopa and the Koopalings to take over Princess Toadstool's Mushroom Kingdom.
Like The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, the show was produced by DIC Animation City, with the overseas animation was done by Sei Young Animation Co., Ltd.; however this show was co-produced by Italian studio Reteitalia S.P.A., hence the slight differences in character design.
Since the show was based on Super Mario Bros. 3, the enemies and power-ups were also seen in the show. In addition to being more faithful to the Mario gameplay, the series was given an established sense of continuity, something that the previous series lacked. Many episodes are set in the real world such as London, Paris, Venice, New York City, Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.. One episode titled "7 Continents for 7 Koopas" is about the Koopalings invading each of the seven continents.
This cartoon was originally shown in the hour-long Captain N and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 programming block along with the second season of Captain N: The Game Master on NBC, whose format involved having two Mario Bros. episodes with a full-length Captain N episode sandwiched in-between. All further airings of the series separated it from Captain N when Weekend Today aired in 1992.
Voice cast
The TV series entered production before official names were given in the development process of the video game, so the Koopalings names are all different.
- Walker Boone as Mario
- Tony Rosato as Luigi
- Tracey Moore as Princess Toadstool
- John Stocker as Toad
- Harvey Atkin as King Koopa/Bowser
- James Rankin as Cheatsy (Larry) Koopa
- Dan Hennessey as Bully (Roy) Koopa
- Tabitha St. Germain (as Paulina Gillis) as Kootie-Pie (Wendy O.) Koopa
- Gordon Masten as Big Mouth (Morton) Koopa (Jr.)
- Michael Stark as Kooky (Ludwig) Von Koopa
- Stuart Stone as Hip (Lemmy) Koopa
- Tara Charendoff as Hop (Iggy) Koopa
See also
In Spanish: The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 para niños
