For many people Charles Martinet is the voice of Mario. He began voicing the character in 1991, and while he’s played other people in the franchise (including Luigi, Waluigi and Wario) he’s mainly known for voicing the main character. That’s about to change, though. The …Read more »
The Super Mario Bros. franchise is on fire! In addition to breaking global opening records with the Super Mario Bros. Movie, it was just announced that the “Super Mario Theme” (a.k.a. the “Ground Theme” according to composer Koji Kondo) has been included in the U.S. …Read more »
The very first trailer for the upcoming The Super Mario Bros. Movie has been released! It was revealed during a Nintendo Direct livestream that’s synced up with New York Comic Con. Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario Bros. and co-producer of the film, gave an …Read more »
The Super Mario Bros. animated film—which stars Chris Pratt as everyone’s favorite Goomba-stomping plumber—was originally slated to premiere on December 21, 2022, but those plans have changed. In fact, Mario mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto himself grabbed the keys to Nintendo’s Twitter account to announce the delay. …Read more »
An animated movie based on the Super Mario Bros. game franchise is scheduled to come out in 2022, but if Nintendo has anything to say about it, this is only the beginning of them turning their products into animation. “Animation, in general, is something that …Read more »
After multiple delays related to COVID-19, Super Nintendo World in Universal Studios Japan is here! Reporters from the site SoraNews24 were able to be there firsthand and shared pictures to give us an idea of what to expect. Here is the opening of Super Nintendo …Read more »
Nintendo and Japan are celebrating 35 years of Super Mario Bros., and over the weekend the American iconic television show Saturday Night Live got in on the celebration. Their skit revolves around fans talking about their first “Mario memories.” The conversation quickly gets sidetracked as …Read more »
Nintendo is going big for the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros., and that includes their efforts for the Super Mario Play! Tokyo! celebration. According to SoraNews24, Shinjuku Station and Tokyo Station are getting all into the Mario love. If you look up at the …Read more »
The Super Mario Bros. franchise has just turned 35, and Nintendo shows no signs of slowing down their work with Mario and Luigi. After a few years of teasing about a Mario Bros. animated film, it just announced that the movie is scheduled to …Read more »
September 13, 2020 will mark the 35th anniversary of the first Super Mario Bros. game, so Nintendo has been making some big announcements. According to Anime News Network, “Nintendo will release a Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. handheld device, as well as the following …Read more »
History was recently made at Dallas, TX-based auction house Heritage Auctions, which set a new bidding and auction sales record for a high-grade boxed and sealed video game. The game in question was none other than the retail version of the Nintendo Entertainment System’s flagship …Read more »
While we didn’t get to see much of it in English at the time, Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. franchise had some great manga in Japan. One of the series was Super Mario-kun, a manga by Yukio Sawada that kicked off in CoroCoro Comic back in …Read more »
Someone could probably argue that Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 isn’t the most iconic video game level of all time, but they would be wrong. This modest introduction to Nintendo’s classic platformer is a master class in teaching by design, so it’s understandable that it …Read more »
Illumination Entertainment, the animation studio behind Despicable Me and Minions, is close to a deal to create a Super Mario Bros film, CNN reports. Mamma mia. Back in May of 2016, we reported Nintendo was looking to get into the movie business. At the time, …Read more »
Walk into a Japanese classroom and you will no doubt see this: a simple, lightweight notebook labeled Campus. Debuting 40 years ago, Kokuyo’s Campus notebooks are pretty much the standard in Japan for note takin’. Now Campus have teamed up with Nintendo for a line …Read more »
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