Gaming Entertainment: Super Mario World Cartoon Review

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A new edition of Gaming Entertainment is up, and we take a look at the last Mario cartoon produced by DIC. The next incarnation of DIC’s version is based on Super Mario World and the studio aired it in the same year of its release. Like I have explained before, the cartoons were used to advertise the products for Nintendo. Even the US passed a law where these studios couldn’t advertise said product on the shows. It was a common practice for companies like Hasbro and Mattel to promote their toy lines. Shows like He-Man, My Little Pony, Care Bears, Voltron and Ninja Turtles were the textbook definition of marketing. It was clear millions of Americans loved Nintendo so DIC being a corporatist company wanted to capitalize on the success.

The cartoon itself is continuation from the SMB3 show and takes place after the events of the game. After Mario, Luigi and Yoshi saved Princess from Koopa, however the Reptilian King continues his work. Through their vacation they must deal with Koopa and his Koopalings who now want to try to conquer the Cave People of Dome City. Or is he trying to feed his dinosaurs to the Cave People? By 1992 NBC was cleaning up their cartoon block and Captain N’s season 3 along with Mario World were the last of these shows. DIC still went on to produce more gaming shows after and they even tried to redo the concept of Captain N with Video Power. Unfortunately, I will have to painful deal with their poorly made adaptations like the first Sonic cartoon (not Sonic Saturday Morning) eventually. For now, will it be three times a charm for another crappy Mario show or will they nail this for once?

Super Mario World Cartoon Review