The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 is a Canadian-American animated television series based on the video game Super Mario Bros. 3. It aired on NBC as a part of Captain N: The Game Master, from September 8, 1990 through December 1, 1990.
The cartoon shows Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad fighting against King Bowser Koopa and his Koopalings, whose names differed from their original names in the video game. On the show, the Koopalings w...
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The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 is a Canadian-American animated television series based on the video game Super Mario Bros. 3. It aired on NBC as a part of Captain N: The Game Master, from September 8, 1990 through December 1, 1990.
The cartoon shows Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad fighting against King Bowser Koopa and his Koopalings, whose names differed from their original names in the video game. On the show, the Koopalings were called:
No official explanation was ever given to the name change. While its reason is disputed among fans, most agree that the likely explanation is that DiC, the company that made the show, did not have access to their real names during production of the show as they were using the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 3 as reference. In the game, the Koopa Kids were not originally named (usually being called simply as "koopa kid" or "little koopa") until it was brought over into the US for English localization, shortly before The...
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