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.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.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 his
seven Koopalings to take over Princess Toadstool's Mushroom Kingdom.
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.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.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 his
seven Koopalings to take over Princess Toadstool's Mushroom Kingdom.
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