The Mario Anime Video Game You Don't Remember
Many Nintendo fans have gone out of their way to play every single game from the company they can including some of the more obscure Mario titles. However, much like the anime about the iconic plumber, one game in particular has become forgotten and faded into relative obscurity.
Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi's Adventure Land is one of the few Super Mario games that doesn't appear on a Nintendo console. It's quite the combination of a unique film and video game and has some big names in the animation and gaming industry behind it.
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Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi's Adventure Land used a game console that most have never heard of — the Bandai Terebikko. Known as the Mattel See n' Say Video Phone in the United States, the Terebikko was able to hear sounds and provide audio outputs to a VHS player to allow young players to interact with and receive «phone calls» from the various characters on screen. While those in the US got basic educational games, those in Japan got special titles for franchises like Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, and of course Super Mario.
The games were very basic, with players helping answer questions by clicking the correct buttons that corresponded with the answers on screen.
Unfortunately, there is no information listed online to share which studio worked on the animated scenes for this game. Its director Masami Hata, who worked on the first Mario movie Super Mario Brothers: Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach, worked for the now-defunct Grouper Productions at the time, so it's quite likely they did the animation work while Bandai produced the film. This would mean that it's possible that Shigeru Miyamoto himself helped work on the game just like he
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