The Story of Super Mario Bros. 3: A 30th Anniversary Retrospective

GTV 67 "The Story of Super Mario Bros. 3" What more needs to be said? (Chapter Markers and More Below!)
0:00 GTV ID: Simply Great
0:06 Intro: The Greatest Videogame Ever Made
0:43 Act 1: The Road To October 23, 1988
11:35 CM1 Super Mario Bros 3. for Family Computer (1988) Super Mario Furikake (1987)
12:40 Act 2: Coming to America
22:18 CM 2 Super Mario Bros. 3 for NES (1990) Happy Meal Toys (1990)
Act 3 23:17 Act 3: The Legacy of Super Mario Bros 3.
29:05 CM 3 Super Mario Bros 3 in France and Mexico (1991) Super Mario Advance 4 (2003)
30:14 Act 4: Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight

Here are other GTV episodes set in the Mario Universe
2 Luigi’s Mansion Arcade https://youtu.be/zwwhz5dd6HA
7 Lost Mario Anime https://youtu.be/KfObkj-sU7Y
12 Super Mario Bros 2 Acoustic Soundtrack https://youtu.be/IXpzUlTpNxk
14 What Was Yume Kojo? (AKA Not The Story of Super Mario 2) https://youtu.be/KL9o9zzCUsQ
18 Super Mario Bros Wii Coin World Arcade https://youtu.be/99soQZW4tDc
20 Super Mario Bros 2 manga https://youtu.be/32y2jyLaPLY
25 Super Mario Bros 2 Music Bug https://youtu.be/z5Tyo6rDEsU
31 Dr. Mario Manga https://youtu.be/Oln2adHrUY4
44 The Perils of Pauline https://youtu.be/DKmJmAVXHgg
61 Super Mario Land Manga https://youtu.be/cUBmBWGMcMo
101 From B To A https://youtu.be/oAvKPB6OAnc
108 The Story of Super Mario World https://youtu.be/zgtYV41yXbU

A lot of this video would be impossible to make without the work of:

Chris Covell, who tirelessly preserves and rediscovers lost gameinfo https://www.chrismcovell.com/

Super Mario Wiki and The Mushroom Kingdom, who research and archive tons of Nintendo and Mario data https://www.mariowiki.com/ https://themushroomkingdom.net/

Kazuya Games and Japanesecommercials4U2 channels who archive all the retro commercials. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWZPMtLKlUr3A-BhjoFfL8g
https://www.youtube.com/user/Japancommercials4U2

Gameplay by World of Longplays. And about 3% of the rest was recorded be me! Mostly Super Mario USA stuff..

If I forgot anything or anyone, please let me know and I will amend it

Partial transcript

On October 23, 1988, Nintendo of Japan released Super Mario Bros 3 to an eager and receptive public. The game was not only meant to be Mario’s, newest, biggest and most exciting adventure, but was meant to represent the culmination of the previous 5 years that Nintendo had spent building its reputation and would cement their legacy for all time.

The first announcement of Super Mario Bros. 3 in English came in Nintendo Power issue 4 in January 1989. Nintendo announced the release of an arcade machine called Play-Choice 10, which was basically the NES hardware in an arcade cabinet. Players would be able to play selected games for a set amount of time, adding more money to the machine, increased the timer for a longer play session. In other words, Play-Choice 10 was like a video game Jukebox. At the end of the article, Nintendo Power told readers to be on the lookout for Super Mario Bros 3. on the Play-Choice machine in 1989.
No screen shots were shown, and no description was given. However, the back cover of that same issue of Nintendo Power showed an image of a Super Mario Bros. 3 box which looks very close to what the final product would be. The second mention would come in May 1989, simply saying that Mario could fly and that more information would come later, despite the game having been finished and on the streets of Japan for nearly a year. Don’t forget that in these days long gone by, Nintendo Power was the only word that existed.

However, the massive expansion of Nintendo’s consumer base led to a wave of third party news publications popping up. To make an impact, these new publications shattered the image Nintendo was trying to project. And scooped Nintendo on their own game at the same time. The debut issue of GamePro magazine appeared in the spring of 1989, and told the truth that Super Mario Bros 3 was already for sale in Japan! These screenshots were the first that Americans had available to them of the Mario adventure that, no one even knew about yet. Electronic Gaming Monthly soon followed with screenshots and a write up of the game in 1989 as well.

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