

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
