Gaming Entertainment: The Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3 Review · 10:27pm Mar 2nd, 2020
A new edition of Gaming Entertainment is up, and we check out the second Mario cartoon from DIC. The show is based on the events of Super Mario Bros 3 and continues the theme of the game. After three failed gaming shows, the company still wanted to continue producing more crap. By 1990, NBC decided to ramp up the production of both Captain N and the Adventures of SMB3. Why it took them a year to do so after DIC produce such garbage is beyond me. By doing a side comparison between Super Show and SMB3 and the first two season of Captain N, you will notice the difference. I can never understand why it took them one series each to give DIC a bigger budget. To make money you have to spend it to see some return back but they didn’t seem to understand that the first time.
The cartoon takes place after the events of SMB3 and the Mario Brothers along with Toadstool and Toad face Bowser once again. However, now he brings along his Koopalings as Mario and friends face them not only in the Mushroom Kingdom but on Earth as well. Such a concept has always bothered me for years especially when Yoshi’s Island revealed this wasn’t the case. I don’t have a problem when other companies who do this in their canon like it is in Equestria Girls. However, Mario being from Earth isn’t canon in its lore by any means unlike Equestria Girls where it is within Gen 4. Now, DIC has always been known to cut corners and work with low budgets. It results in some of the worst produced cartoons of that era and still leaves a terrible taste for many gamers even today. So, can DIC finally redeem themselves after many attempts that ended badly for them?
