

3 was later included in the Super Mario All-Stars Compilation Rerelease on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993, and that remake was updated again as a standalone game as Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 was also featured in the film The Wizard released on December 15, 1989, two months beforehand.Ī remake of Super Mario Bros. In promotion of the game's fast approaching American release, Super Mario Bros.

Initially released for the Famicon Disk System in Japan in the fall of 1988, the game wouldn't see a release in North America until a year and change later - on February 12, 1990, thanks to a shortage of ROM chips. 3 was also the first Mario game to have a specific cartoon Spin-Off, in the form of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. The final installment in the 8-bit series of Super Mario games, it introduced several new power-ups and features, in addition to a much larger selection of levels, enemies, and so forth most notably, the Koopalings debuted here, and would go on to be recurring characters in the later series. A promotional video in 2015 had Miyamoto state that the game is a stage play. Mario and Luigi must first trounce the Koopalings, retrieve the Magic Wands stolen from the rightful rulers, and restore the kings to human form before they can finally tackle Bowser himself. must now liberate the surrounding kingdoms from Bowser, who, in the vein of Napoléon Bonaparte, has divvied those kingdoms up between his seven kids, the Koopalings. Having saved the Mushroom Kingdom, the Mario Bros. 3 is the fourth overall installment in the Super Mario Bros.

The Video Armageddon Announcer, The Wizard
