Gaming Entertainment: Super Mario Bros Supershow Review · 5:02am Dec 15th, 2019
A new edition of Gaming Entertainment is up, and we review the first Mario cartoon from DIC. Everyone at this point knows Mario is the Mickey Mouse of gaming as he paved a way for industry. After the Crash of 1983 thanks to Atari ruining the market in North America, Nintendo took a gamble and brought the NES over here. Thanks to pushing Super Mario Bros and making the Plumber their mascot gaming went to new heights that Atari could ever take it. Throughout the last few decades, we have seen many game characters across different companies get their films and TV shows. In many instances it was always a mix reaction as for one quality film/show would be ten bad ones to come. Fortunately, today gaming in different medias has gotten better.
On to the review, if you didn’t know DIC’s venture into gaming cartoons wasn’t the first time, a studio created a series. In my Captain N season one review, I mentioned how another studio did the same thing with Donkey Kong. A company called Ruby-Spears Production did that during Saturday Supercade in 1983/1984. They didn’t just feature Donkey Kong but also Frogger, Q-Bert and even Pitfall. DIC and NBC wanted to create their set of cartoons but so far, they haven’t been the best of animation. With two failed shows one should wonder how bad the studio could get Mario on this occasion. If only DIC had the same integrity as Valiant Comics, then we would’ve gotten better cartoons. It’s just a fine example of corporatism running wild since they didn’t seem to care about the quality. With DIC dipping their hand into Nintendo licensing for the third time, will they finally get it on this occasion?
