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Subject: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/18/19 at 1:09 pm
Are you a Super Mario Brothers fan? Do you like the Super Mario Brothers over Link of The Legend of Zelda and Little Mac from Punch-Out? I know “The World of Nintendo” stuff was very 1988 into 1989, but how do you forget about the popularity of Super Mario at the very start of 1990?
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This thread is dedicated to all things Super Mario Brothers in the US and abroad from the mid 1980s into the 1990s. Were the earliest games better as arcade games or home console games? What was the best ever Super Mario cartoon? Do you feel Super Mario and Luigi should have made an appearance in Captain N: The Game Master? Did you enjoy the movie over the cartoons? Did you own any Super Mario Brothers collectibles? What was the best food tie-in? The fruit snacks? The cookies? Dare I say it, the soda? Did your parents hate that you stayed inside playing Super Mario Brothers almost all day instead of going outside and playing like them? Should there have been a live action dramedy series for the Super Mario Brothers instead of “The Super Mario Brothers Super Show” in the late 80s and early 90s? Should “Club Mario” be released on DVD or locked in an early 90s time capsule? Please let me know any of your thoughts on all things Super Mario Brothers.
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Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: annimal on 07/18/19 at 5:12 pm
I even like Mario Brothers better
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/18/19 at 8:01 pm
I even like Mario Brothers better
You’re the only person I know who brings up the 1983 arcade game, Mario Brothers. Super Mario Brothers is so much better, in my opinion. I was thinking the other night that it was interesting how close the gameplay of Super Mario Brothers 3 was to Super Mario World. It’s the easiest Mario game to play for about six or seven levels. Super Mario Brothers 1 is the hardest to beat, Super Mario Brothers 2 was the sequel we won’t talk about , and Super Mario Brothers 3 was the light at the end of the tunnel.
I’m not a SNES, 64, Dreamcast, Wii, or Switch fan. Do you think the Super Mario Brothers cartoons of the very late 80s into the early 90s were better than the earliest games?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: annimal on 07/18/19 at 8:21 pm
well I like a good challenge sometimes when I get tired of things I keep winning all the time.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/18/19 at 9:31 pm
well I like a good challenge sometimes when I get tired of things I keep winning all the time.
I like to be Super Mario above ground and not in the sewers. If I wanted to play a NES game set in a sewer, I would take out the first TMNT game.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: annimal on 07/18/19 at 9:42 pm
if your sink is in trouble you can call us on the double
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/18/19 at 10:02 pm
if your sink is in trouble you can call us on the double
Did you like the 1989 live action segments or the cartoon itself?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: mach!ne_he@d on 07/19/19 at 7:25 am
Yeah, Mario has pretty much always been my favorite video game series. I played Super Mario Bros. originally when I was about 3 years old during the early '90s. My parents got me a SNES for Christmas 1992 with Super Mario World and that was my favorite game for most of my childhood. Years later I got a N64 with Super Mario 64. By the way, I actually like the Mario Bros. movie. It's like the ultimate so bad it's good movie.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Howard on 07/19/19 at 7:26 am
Did you like the 1989 live action segments of the cartoon itself?
I definitely enjoyed The Super Mario Brothers Super Show back in 1989 when you had Lou Albano portraying Mario, it was such a fun time.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Howard on 07/19/19 at 7:30 am
I grew up playing Super Mario Brothers during The Nintendo days and as well as The original Mario Brothers back in 1983.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/19/19 at 7:43 am
Yeah, Mario has pretty much always been my favorite video game series. I played Super Mario Bros. originally when I was about 3 years old during the early '90s. My parents got me a SNES for Christmas 1992 with Super Mario World and that was my favorite game for most of my childhood. Years later I got a N64 with Super Mario 64. By the way, I actually like the Mario Bros. movie. It's like the ultimate so bad it's good movie.
I think the writers of the Super Mario Brothers movie were going for a 1990 TMNT movie feel, but you can’t really do that with the Marioverse. The 1993 Super Mario Brothers movie should have been animated like they said it was going to be in that 1991 Comic Scene magazine I read recently. Unfortunately, Xennials and Millennials would compare the 1992 animated Mario movie to the Super Mario World cartoon and possibly the two before it. I don’t think a movie for the Super Mario Brothers should have been made, but, of course, I know people who went gaga for the movie before it came to theaters.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: annimal on 07/19/19 at 10:53 am
I watched the Super Mario Brothers Super Show with my younger brothers and enjoyed Toad being called fungus face
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: nally on 07/19/19 at 10:59 am
Did you like the 1989 live action segments or the cartoon itself?
I remember both. Each episode would consist of the live-action segment during the first half, and the animated segment during the second half. The live-action segments starred Lou Albano and Danny Wells as the brothers (Mario and Luigi, respectively); they also voiced the respective characters in the animated segments.
Later on, the live-action segments were replaced by "Club Mario" (as well as the opening sequence), featuring a different motif altogether.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/19/19 at 10:59 am
I watched the Super Mario Brothers Super Show with my younger brothers and enjoyed Toad being called fungus face
The Super Mario Brothers Super Show was all around cheesy. It’s hard to revisit it as an adult. In the very late 80s and early 90s, Xennials were blown away by there being a Super Mario cartoon, but that was it. I don’t know why Xennials did not see “TSMSS”, “Captain N: TGM”,and the movie “The Wizard” coming down the pipeline for Xers and Xennials in 1989. In hindsight, it seems inevitable that there would be that much advertising for Nintendo products at the end of the 80s. The NES was really taking off in the years 1987 and 1988 (especially 1988). Have you ever tried watching “Super Show” without the sound on?
I remember both. Each episode would consist of the live-action segment during the first half, and the animated segment during the second half. The live-action segments starred Lou Albano and Danny Wells as the brothers (Mario and Luigi, respectively); they also voiced the respective characters in the animated segments.
Later on, the live-action segments were replaced by "Club Mario" (as well as the opening sequence), featuring a different motif altogether.
The 1989 live action segments were the best part of “TSMSS” for me. “Club Mario”, on the other hand, was off the wall! Both “TSMSS” and “Club Mario” are equally dated. Do you think “Club Mario” would have worked under a different title without the Mario cartoons in there?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: nally on 07/19/19 at 11:04 am
The 1989 live action segments were the best part of “TSMSS” for me. “Club Mario”, on the other hand, was off the wall! Both “TSMSS” and “Club Mario” are equally dated. Do you think “Club Mario” would have worked under a different title without the Mario cartoons in there?
I agree totally.
Maybe "Club Mario" could have been a spinoff show, rather than replacing an already-established part of an already-established program. It probably would have still met with low ratings. ::)
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/19/19 at 11:14 am
I agree totally.
Maybe "Club Mario" could have been a spinoff show, rather than replacing an already-established part of an already-established program. It probably would have still met with low ratings. ::)
“Club Mario” was totally early 90s. It had nothing to do with the Marioverse and that is why a lot of Xennials hated it at the time. Did you watch “King Koopa’s Kool Kartoons”?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: nally on 07/19/19 at 11:18 am
“Club Mario” was totally early 90s. It had nothing to do with the Marioverse and that is why a lot of Xennials hated it at the time.
True that.
Did you watch “King Koopa’s Kool Kartoons”?
No, but I do know that Koopa was a main villain in the animated segments. He was also originally named Bowser. (The character also appeared in live-action form in the 1993 live-action film, played by Dennis Hopper...but his appearance there is more human -- rather than reptilian -- for the most part.)
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/19/19 at 11:25 am
True that.
No, but I do know that Koopa was a main villain in the animated segments. He was also originally named Bowser. (The character also appeared in live-action form in the 1993 live-action film, played by Dennis Hopper...but his appearance there is more human -- rather than reptilian -- for the most part.)
“King Koopa’s Kool Kartoons” was more like “The Bozo the Clown Show” than “TSMSS”. It was filmed in front of a live audience. “KKKK” was different from anything on TV for children at the time, but it only lasted one season. Xennials preferred “Steampipe Alley” and “The Dr. Fad Show” to “KKKK”. Unfortunately, XYers that weren’t die hard Mario fans were probably too busy actually playing the NES to watch “KKKK” at the time. It’s a shame too, because the only way to catch “KKKK” is on YouTube. The NES can be played anytime in the 2010s, but I doubt “KKKK” will ever be shown on TV again.
Would you have watched reruns of a dramedy version of a Super Mario Brothers program made for Xers and XYers if it were made in the 80s?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: wagonman76 on 07/19/19 at 11:39 am
Super Mario 2 was my favorite. Absolutely loved the play and the scenery. I would always be Luigi so I could jump higher than anyone else.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/19/19 at 12:24 pm
Super Mario 2 was my favorite. Absolutely loved the play and the scenery. I would always be Luigi so I could jump higher than anyone else.
I loved how the worlds in Super Mario Brothers 2 were colorful and filled with enemies we didn’t see in the first one. How would you rate the original games made in the 80s?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: nally on 07/19/19 at 3:25 pm
I loved how the worlds in Super Mario Brothers 2 were colorful and filled with enemies we didn’t see in the first one.
I played that game, periodically, in the early 90's or thereabouts.
There was also a Super Mario Land, created for the Gameboy in 1989. I thought it was an interesting game.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Howard on 07/19/19 at 4:15 pm
The Super Mario Brothers Super Show was all around cheesy. It’s hard to revisit it as an adult. In the very late 80s and early 90s, Xennials were blown away by there being a Super Mario cartoon, but that was it. I don’t know why Xennials did not see “TSMSS”, “Captain N: TGM”,and the movie “The Wizard” coming down the pipeline for Xers and Xennials in 1989. In hindsight, it seems inevitable that there would be that much advertising for Nintendo products at the end of the 80s. The NES was really taking off in the years 1987 and 1988 (especially 1988). Have you ever tried watching “Super Show” without the sound on?
The 1989 live action segments were the best part of “TSMSS” for me. “Club Mario”, on the other hand, was off the wall! Both “TSMSS” and “Club Mario” are equally dated. Do you think “Club Mario” would have worked under a different title without the Mario cartoons in there?
I think Lou Albano and Don Wells made the show pretty funny.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Howard on 07/19/19 at 4:18 pm
I played that game, periodically, in the early 90's or thereabouts.
There was also a Super Mario Land, created for the Gameboy in 1989. I thought it was an interesting game.
and also Wario: 6 Golden Coins made for Gameboy a few years later.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/19/19 at 5:43 pm
I played that game, periodically, in the early 90's or thereabouts.
There was also a Super Mario Land, created for the Gameboy in 1989. I thought it was an interesting game.
“Super Mario Land” was too frustrating to me. The Gameboy screen too small and dark to see everything happening without a Light Boy attached to the Gameboy. I like the model for Nintendo’s Gameboy, but that’s about it. I thought it was “big stuff” when it was new in the very late 80s and early 90s, but I like the NES better nowadays.
I think Lou Albano and Don Wells made the show pretty funny.
I like SMSS for the guest stars. “SMSS” was very much a product of its time like “Club Mario” was.
and also Wario: 6 Golden Coins made for Gameboy a few years later.
Wario reminds me too much of Odlaw, Waldo’s nemesis, from the Where’s Waldo universe. I wonder if Wario was based off of Odlaw in any way. Odlaw was introduced to book readers one year before Nintendo fans knew of Wario. I never delved too far into the Marioverse in the 90s, because the games for all systems were expensive. In those days, you were lucky if you could get any one Mario game with your NES, SNES, or 64. What did you think when you first saw Wario?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: nally on 07/19/19 at 6:20 pm
“Super Mario Land” was too frustrating to me. The Gameboy screen too small and dark to see everything happening without a Light Boy attached to the Gameboy. I like the model for Nintendo’s Gameboy, but that’s about it. I thought it was “big stuff” when it was new in the very late 80s and early 90s, but I like the NES better nowadays.
It wasn't too hard for me to see. In fact, I got the Gameboy as a birthday gift in 1991, when I turned 11. I had longed for one after going to a friend's house a month earlier and playing with his Gameboy. I still have it today, but I haven't played with it in several years. Periodically I will, though.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/19/19 at 7:49 pm
It wasn't too hard for me to see. In fact, I got the Gameboy as a birthday gift in 1991, when I turned 11. I had longed for one after going to a friend's house a month earlier and playing with his Gameboy. I still have it today, but I haven't played with it in several years. Periodically I will, though.
I’ve seen the 1989 Gameboy once at a church flea market. I didn’t purchase that Gameboy from the vendor, but I stayed around the vendor long enough to hear another old-head ask the price for it. The Gameboy would be a collectible to me nowadays.
Do you like the Mario merchandise better than the Gameboy games? I love seeing the Nintendo Power logo on retro clothing. I stopped caring about Mario sweatshirts, pajamas, and shirts after “Super Mario World” came out. The old art for the instruction booklets to the first three games was the best. Do you know what Mario merchandise I’m talking about ?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: nally on 07/19/19 at 10:49 pm
^ Yeah I'm pretty sure I know what you're referring to. I didn't get any 'merchandise' stuff related to the Super Mario Bros, but there was a brief timespan in the summer of 1989 when I collected a couple of the Super Mario Bros "Happy Meal" toys. In fact, during that year I collected several of the toys that were in Happy Meals.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: annimal on 07/19/19 at 10:59 pm
about SM2 different bad guys, fruits and vegetables around, and each character had a different skill like Luigi being able to jump higher. I remember one of them being to throw further.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/19/19 at 11:17 pm
^ Yeah I'm pretty sure I know what you're referring to. I didn't get any 'merchandise' stuff related to the Super Mario Bros, but there was a brief timespan in the summer of 1989 when I collected a couple of the Super Mario Bros "Happy Meal" toys. In fact, during that year I collected several of the toys that were in Happy Meals.
The Super Mario Brothers 3 Happy Meal toys were at McDonalds in August of 1990. The Super Mario Brothers PVCS were in stores in 1989. One of the Mario PVCs with a spring on the bottom was re-released as Racoon Mario for the 1990 Happy Meal set. The SMB3 toys were the best Happy Meal toys aside from the Changeables to Xennials at the time. Did you know there was a squishy Racoon Mario toy for children under 3 years old in 1990?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: nally on 07/19/19 at 11:20 pm
The Super Mario Brothers 3 Happy Meal toys were at McDonalds in August of 1990. The Super Mario Brothers PVCS were in stores in 1989. One of the Mario PVCs with a spring on the bottom was re-released as Racoon Mario for the 1990 Happy Meal set. The SMB3 toys were the best Happy Meal toys aside from the Changeables to Xennials at the time. Did you know there was a squishy Racoon Mario toy for children under 3 years old in 1990?
Oh yes, that's right. Sorry, I was off by a year. (For some reason I thought they were August '89. That must've been something else.)
No, I did not know about the Squishy Raccoon toy. I turned 10 that year, so I was unaware of the toy possibilities for the little ones.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/19/19 at 11:25 pm
Oh yes, that's right. Sorry, I was off by a year. (For some reason I thought they were August '89. That must've been something else.)
No, I did not know about the Squishy Raccoon toy. I turned 10 that year, so I was unaware of the toy possibilities for the little ones.
The art for the Happy Meal box and the toys were made in 1989. The U3 squishy Mario toy was not seen in the display for the SMB3 Happy Meal toy display. Parents of the 90s had to request them for their infants in 1990.
Do you think the master art and designs for the Super Mario Brothers characters were better before 1992 or after?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: nally on 07/19/19 at 11:31 pm
The art for the Happy Meal box and the toys were made in 1989. The U3 squishy Mario toy was not seen in the display for the SMB3 Happy Meal toy display. Parents of the 90s had to request them for their infants in 1990.
Well, thanks for that bit of info. I guess it would be helpful to know in one way or another. After all, young'uns at that time needed something.
Do you think the master art and designs for the Super Mario Brothers characters were better before 1992 or after?
Probably before then.
Subject: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Dude111 on 07/19/19 at 11:51 pm
You’re the only person I know who brings up the 1983 arcade game, Mario Brothers.
Well he isnt the only one....... I also thought this was about SMB the game (hehe)
I like the first one in 1985 but not the others........
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/19/19 at 11:58 pm
Well, thanks for that bit of info. I guess it would be helpful to know in one way or another. After all, young'uns at that time needed something.
Probably before then.
Is “The Legend of Zelda” box and cartridge more iconic than the 1985 “Super Mario Brothers” box and cartridge to you?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Howard on 07/20/19 at 2:40 pm
“Super Mario Land” was too frustrating to me. The Gameboy screen too small and dark to see everything happening without a Light Boy attached to the Gameboy. I like the model for Nintendo’s Gameboy, but that’s about it. I thought it was “big stuff” when it was new in the very late 80s and early 90s, but I like the NES better nowadays.
I like SMSS for the guest stars. “SMSS” was very much a product of its time like “Club Mario” was.
Wario reminds me too much of Odlaw, Waldo’s nemesis, from the Where’s Waldo universe. I wonder if Wario was based off of Odlaw in any way. Odlaw was introduced to book readers one year before Nintendo fans knew of Wario. I never delved too far into the Marioverse in the 90s, because the games for all systems were expensive. In those days, you were lucky if you could get any one Mario game with your NES, SNES, or 64. What did you think when you first saw Wario?
I thought Wario could've been his/their older brother.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: annimal on 07/20/19 at 3:48 pm
evil uncle? I use to play Mario Cart. I'm a Wario I' a gonna win
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/20/19 at 6:18 pm
I thought Wario could've been his/their older brother.
Did Wario resemble Captain Lou Albano more than Mario at the time you discovered the character? Was the 1983 Mario closer to looking like Captain Lou Albano than 1988 and 1990 Mario did?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: mxcrashxm on 07/20/19 at 10:20 pm
Of course, I am. I had played most of the Mario titles from when the franchise began up until Super Mario Galaxy and even conquered most of them as well. I haven't played any after that one because I never had SMG2 or the Wii U, 3DS and N. Switch.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/20/19 at 11:12 pm
Of course, I am. I had played most of the Mario titles from when the franchise began up until Super Mario Galaxy and even conquered most of them as well. I haven't played any after that one because I never had SMG2 or the Wii U, 3DS and N. Switch.
Did you have to use a NES Controller Adaptor, NES Advantage, Speedboard, or Game Genie to beat the first three Mario titles?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: mxcrashxm on 07/20/19 at 11:29 pm
Did you have to use a NES Controller Adaptor, NES Advantage, Speedboard, or Game Genie to beat the first three Mario titles?
None of the above. I don't usually cheat on games unless I'm stuck in a certain area or I'm using them to my advantage on enemies.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/20/19 at 11:53 pm
None of the above. I don't usually cheat on games unless I'm stuck in a certain area or I'm using them to my advantage on enemies.
How long did it take you to finish each 80s and 90s Mario title? Did you play with anyone else? Were you alive in the late 80s and early 90s? Did you hold Nintendo parties in the late 80s and early 90s?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: mxcrashxm on 07/21/19 at 12:28 am
How long did it take you to finish each 80s and 90s Mario title? Did you play with anyone else? Were you alive in the late 80s and early 90s? Did you hold Nintendo parties in the late 80s and early 90s?
]When you're talking about the Mario games, do you mean the Original super Mario trilogy, the Japanese SMB2, SMW, the Super Mario Land trilogy, SMAS, and SM64? Oh, and do you also count SMW2: Yoshis island as a Mario title or A Yoshi title?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/21/19 at 8:01 am
]When you're talking about the Mario games, do you mean the Original super Mario trilogy, the Japanese SMB2, SMW, the Super Mario Land trilogy, SMAS, and SM64? Oh, and do you also count SMW2: Yoshis island as a Mario title or A Yoshi title?
Every Mario title (imported or NA release) that you played in the 80s and 90s.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Howard on 07/21/19 at 2:38 pm
Did Wario resemble Captain Lou Albano more than Mario at the time you discovered the character? Was the 1983 Mario closer to looking like Captain Lou Albano than 1988 and 1990 Mario did?
I think Wario kind of resembled Capt.Lou Albano slightly.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/21/19 at 5:01 pm
I think Wario kind of resembled Capt.Lou Albano slightly.
Have you ever tried any of the Super Brothers 3 cookies by the company Salerno or the Super Mario World cookies by Sunshine in the 90s?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: mxcrashxm on 07/21/19 at 9:56 pm
Every Mario title (imported or NA release) that you played in the 80s and 90s.
Yes, I did. I played with my family since they are family video games, but no, we did not hold Nintendo parties at all. I don't even think we had the funds for that back then.
As for the games, I can't exactly remember how long each one took to complete. However, I was happy I beat the final bosses of each Mario title I played. Sometimes Bowser (except in the American SMB2) can be a pain, you know?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Howard on 07/22/19 at 5:30 am
Have you ever tried any of the Super Brothers 3 cookies by the company Salerno or the Super Mario World cookies by Sunshine in the 90s?
No I haven't.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/22/19 at 11:49 am
No I haven't.
Did you buy anything with Mario on it in the 90s?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: violet_shy on 07/22/19 at 7:07 pm
I played Super Mario Bros. games.
But, I loved Sonic more.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Howard on 07/23/19 at 7:24 am
Did you buy anything with Mario on it in the 90s?
I think I bought the cereal back in the days.
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Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/26/19 at 8:01 pm
I think I bought the cereal back in the days.
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Coolest cereal ever! Nowadays, it reminds Xennials of Trix and Berry Berry Kix.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: annimal on 07/27/19 at 10:01 am
Nen ten do two cereals in one yeah
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/27/19 at 12:20 pm
Besides the awesome changing box designs, these were the real reason to buy the cereal if your parents didn’t let you keep the whole box…behold… https://sickr.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/nintendocereal.jpg
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Howard on 07/28/19 at 2:29 pm
Coolest cereal ever! Nowadays, it reminds Xennials of Trix and Berry Berry Kix.
It's like almost every video game back then was made into a cereal.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/28/19 at 3:53 pm
It's like almost every video game back then was made into a cereal.
Every major property was into a cereal. The last Ralston cereal based off a property was Spider-Man Cereal in the mid 90s. Don’t ask how there was a cereal for “Spider-Man Animated Series” and not one for “Batman The Animated Series”, “X-Men”, or “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers”. What a missed opportunity.
Was the “Super Mario Brothers” franchise ruined in the 90s for you?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Howard on 07/29/19 at 5:37 am
Every major property was into a cereal. The last Ralston cereal based off a property was Spider-Man Cereal in the mid 90s. Don’t ask how there was a cereal for “Spider-Man Animated Series” and not one for “Batman The Animated Series”, “X-Men”, or “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers”. What a missed opportunity.
Was the “Super Mario Brothers” franchise ruined in the 90s for you?
No, it wasn't ruined for me.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/29/19 at 7:28 am
No, it wasn't ruined for me.
I prefer when Bowser was King Koopa and Princess Peach was Princess Toadstool Peach. I didn’t like everything Mario made after “Super Mario Brothers 3”. “Super Mario Land” was nowhere near as great as the NES games from my point of view. 1985 to 1990 are the best years for “Super Mario Brothers” for me with 1988 to 1990 being peak years for the franchise.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: annimal on 07/29/19 at 10:07 am
yeah after SMB3 everything was changed and ruined
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Retrolover on 07/29/19 at 10:13 am
yeah after SMB3 everything was changed and ruined
“Super Mario All-Stars” was the biggest letdown for me at the time. The commercial stunk and the original 3 games do not translate well into 16 bit games.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: violet_shy on 11/17/21 at 12:27 pm
This brings back memories! I use to play Super Mario 64 with my sister in the 90s. We use to buy ice cream, and play this game all day. We we would take turns since it was only a one player game. It was so much fun.
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Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/21 at 2:07 pm
It was Mario Kart that took my interest back then.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Howard on 11/18/21 at 3:37 am
This brings back memories! I use to play Super Mario 64 with my sister in the 90s. We use to buy ice cream, and play this game all day. We we would take turns since it was only a one player game. It was so much fun.
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I grew up with the old school Super Mario during The 1980's.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: MarkMc1990 on 12/03/21 at 4:17 pm
I notice there is a lot more Mario merchandise in stores now than there was when I was kid. That stuff was hard to come by in the late ‘90s/Y2K-ish and I would have killed for it. I had some plush characters that came from Nintendo Power magazine and a few Mario Kart 64 figures where you would pull the kart backwards on the floor and it would launch forward and fire a shell and that was about it. When I go shopping for my nephews I see a lot more Mario stuff in toy aisles, plus things like bedding, blankets, etc, but they’re not into Mario sadly :( Hell they even have Mario LEGOs now. Those would have completed my childhood!
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: batfan2005 on 12/04/21 at 3:35 pm
I think I bought the cereal back in the days.
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I remember the commercial for it. The video is LQ as it's probably from a VHS recording.
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Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Howard on 12/05/21 at 3:33 am
I remember the commercial for it. The video is LQ as it's probably from a VHS recording.
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Can you still purchase this cereal on Ebay or Amazon? ???
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: nally on 12/05/21 at 11:20 am
Can you still purchase this cereal on Ebay or Amazon? ???
I think the cereal would be kinda stale by now (unsuitable for eating). I mean, it's been 32 years!
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Howard on 12/05/21 at 4:06 pm
I think the cereal would be kinda stale by now (unsuitable for eating). I mean, it's been 32 years!
I'm pretty sure they have a way to keep a cereal like that fresh so it can be good to consume.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 12/05/21 at 4:40 pm
I'm pretty sure they have a way to keep a cereal like that fresh so it can be good to consume.
No, I do not think 32 year old cereal, even in a sealed box, would be good to consume. There things have expiration dates for a reason!
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: nally on 12/05/21 at 10:53 pm
No, I do not think 32 year old cereal, even in a sealed box, would be good to consume. There things have expiration dates for a reason!
Exactly!! O0
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/06/21 at 7:51 am
I think the cereal would be kinda stale by now (unsuitable for eating). I mean, it's been 32 years!
Especially if it has been lost in the post?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: batfan2005 on 12/06/21 at 10:08 am
No, I do not think 32 year old cereal, even in a sealed box, would be good to consume. There things have expiration dates for a reason!
And it's not like vintage candy that they are still making and selling at select locations. I did however see a Super Mario cereal on eBay.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Howard on 12/07/21 at 3:39 am
And it's not like vintage candy that they are still making and selling at select locations. I did however see a Super Mario cereal on eBay.
How much they're selling it for? ???
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/21 at 3:51 am
And it's not like vintage candy that they are still making and selling at select locations. I did however see a Super Mario cereal on eBay.
How much they're selling it for? ???
At vintage prices?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: nally on 12/07/21 at 8:12 pm
At vintage prices?
It wouldn't make sense to sell cereal that is 30-someodd years old. I mean, it would need to be preserved somehow...but by the same token, it wouldn't be safe to eat because it'd be well past the expiration date on the box. Still unsuitable for eating.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: MagicalCherry1987 on 01/09/22 at 7:04 am
I used to be scared of the piano in Big Boo's Haunt. You know which piano I'm talking about.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Howard on 01/09/22 at 3:22 pm
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UGFD2Soqhfc/hqdefault.jpg
Who remembers Super Mario Brothers from 1983?
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: nally on 04/01/22 at 11:01 pm
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Who remembers Super Mario Brothers from 1983?
I don't. I was only 3 then.
However, the character Mario first appeared in the video game Donkey Kong way back in 1981, as a player character (for the player operating the game to be) before he got his own game two years later. And his popularity later flourished. O0
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: nally on 03/02/23 at 11:07 pm
I thought Wario could've been his/their older brother.
When I first saw him (on a TV ad for the video games he was in) I thought he was Mario's evil twin or something. After all, his name only differed from Mario by the initial letter. Apparently he's an archrival to Mario. And the emblem on his hat is a letter "W" that is just like Mario's "M" turned upside down.
You can read all about him on Wiki.
Subject: Re: Super Mario Bros.
Written By: Howard on 03/03/23 at 3:12 am
When I first saw him (on a TV ad for the video games he was in) I thought he was Mario's evil twin or something. After all, his name only differed from Mario by the initial letter. Apparently he's an archrival to Mario. And the emblem on his hat is a letter "W" that is just like Mario's "M" turned upside down.
You can read all about him on Wiki.
And there's a game for Gameboy it's called Wario's "6 Golden Coins", it must've came out in The early 1990's.