The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 is an American animated television series based on the video game Super Mario Bros. 3. It aired on NBC with Captain N: The Game Master in a programming block titled "Captain N & The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3" from September 8, 1990 to December 1, 1990. It is the second of the three TV shows based on the video game, with the others being The Super Mario Bros. Super Show and Super Mario World.
Unlike its predecessor, this series has no live-action segments and features entirely new voice actors, with the exceptions of John Stocker and Harvey Atkin, who reprised their roles as Toad and King Koopa. DIC Entertainment produced this series while Nintendo provided the characters and power-ups.
In 1 July 2015, the show was re-released to Steam by Cinedigm.
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 focuses on Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool, who reside in the Mushroom World. Most of the episodes revolve around the four characters' efforts to prevent the attacks made by King Koopa and his seven Koopalings to take over Princess Toadstool's Mushroom Kingdom.
Like The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, the animation was done by Sei Young Animation Co., Ltd.; however this show was co-produced by Italian studio Reteitalia S.P.A., hence the slight differences in character design.
Since the show was based on Super Mario Bros. 3, the enemies and power-ups were also seen in the show. In addition to being more faithful to the Mario gameplay, the series was given an established sense of continuity, something that the previous series lacked. The show was also known for having many of its episodes set in "the real world", with "actual" human beings appearing from time to time. Episodes took place in locations such as London, Paris, Venice, New York City, Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles and even Washington, D.C.. One memorable episode entitled "7 Continents for 7 Koopas" was about the Koopalings invading each of the seven continents.
This cartoon was originally shown in the hour-long Captain N and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 programming block along with the second season of Captain N: The Game Master on NBC. All further airings of the series separated it from Captain N when Weekend Today came on the air in 1992.
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| Image | Character | USA | USA(Spanish) | Mex | Bra | Ger | Fra | Ita | Hun | Nor | Fin | Spa |
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Mario | Walker Boone | Víctor Mares | Bernardo Ezeta | Antônio Patiño | Reinhard Brock | Gwen Lebret | Tony Fuochi | József Kerekes | Nils Vogt | Tuukka Leppänen | J. Ignacio Latorre |
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Luigi | Tony Rosato | Manuel Cabral | Ricardo Hill | Jomeri Pozzoli | Gudo Hoegel | Olivier Angéle | Enrico Carabelli | Fekete Zoltán | Jan Erik Aune | Jon-Jon Geitel | JuanMiguel Díez |
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Princess Toadstool | Tracey Moore | Rocío Robledo | DulceMaría Romay | Guilene Conte | Alexandra Ludwig | Isabelle Volpé | Alessandra Karpoff | Solecki Janka | Pia Tellefsen | Nina Frisart | |
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Toad | John Stocker | Carlos Carrillo | DulceMaría Romay | Oberdan Júnior | HansRainer Müller | Jean-Marco Montalto | Veronica Pivetti | Ilona Molnár | Nils Vogt | Nina Frisart | |
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King Koopa | Harvey Atkin | Jesús Brock | José Luis Castañeda | Paulo Flores | Willi Röbke | Frédéric Souterelle | Antonio Paiola | Faragó András | Jan Erik Aune | Markus Bäckman | Vicente Gil |
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Cheatsy Koopa | James Rankin | Víctor Mares | Rosanelda Aguirre | MárioJorge deAndrade | Florian Halm | Jean-Marco Montalto | Sergio Luzi | ||||
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Big MouthKoopa | Gordon Masten | Carlos Carrillo | Sergio Barrios | Hamilton Ricardo | Jean-Marco Montalto | Diego Sabre | Sergio Mesa | ||||
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Kootie Pie Koopa | Tabitha St.Germain | Rocío Gallegos | DulceMaría Romay | Carmen Sheila | Isabelle Volpé | Graziella Porta | Pia Tellefsen | ||||
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Hip Koopa | Stuart Stone | Rocío Robledo | DulceMaría Romay | Cleonir dosSantos | Jean-Marco Montalto | Ilaria Latini | |||||
| Hop Koopa | Tara Strong | |||||||||||
| Bully Koopa | Dan Hennessey | |||||||||||
| Kooky Von Koopa | Michael Stark |