Just throwing this idea out there. Forgotten Nintendo Games: The unreleased Super Famicom/SNES title Super Mario Bros. The Movie was intended for a Christmas 1993 release and was based (loosely) on the Bob Hoskins-starring film. Unusually for a Mario title, the game was developed not by Nintendo but by the California-based studio Visual Concepts, with Ringler Studios handling the also-unreleased Game Boy version. The simple platforming gameplay most closely resembles the original Super Mario Bros., albeit in a much darker, dystopic landscape. Similar to the then-popular Mortal Kombat series, actors were photographed as live-action video, and their likenesses then digitized into the game. Unlike Mortal Kombat, the game altered the actor likenesses to have "big heads" and be more cartoonish. The end result was somewhere between Mortal Kombat and Toshiba's Super Back to the Future 2. Live-capture footage was shot against blue screen during the shooting of the film itself, with actors including Bob Hoskins, Dennis Hopper, John Leguizamo, Samantha Mathis, Francesca Roberts and Lance Henriksen reprising their roles to some extent. However, the game does not closely follow the storyline of the film, taking equal inspiration from the first four Super Mario Bros. video games. The opening cutscene is very cartoonish and shows Koopa (Dennis Hopper) riding a giant mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex and kidnapping Princess Daisy (Samantha Mathis). Mario Bros. to the rescue! Or not. After the poor reception the Super Mario Bros movie received, Nintendo decided to shelve the game, and it was never publicly released. By all accounts an above-average platformer for the time, with an unusual visual style, we're still hoping for a ROM to leak …

Is this real?

This is actually quite interesting. By any chance do you have any links to the source material?

Fun fact: I've taken into consideration the [i]possibility[/i] of making this for a very long, long time. No promises, however. ;)

well that could be cool to see! :D

It seems like such an obvious idea. :) I'd love to play it ...

Mit and I had a similar idea at one point. It seemed like an original idea at the time. :whoops:

Interesting tidbit. I never knew about that.

That is one amazing concept.

This is amazing; if you don't do it, [i]someone[/i] has to.

Sounds like it would be a game worth trying. I mean it couldn't be any worse than Street Fighter The Movie The Game.

Just so you all know, the quote posted in the first post isn't a real thing but someone's concept that was posted online inspired by the whole Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game thing. Doesn't mean I don't want to see someone pull this off, a SMB movie fangame could turn out really charming or really bad, both of which I'd probably enjoy in some way.

[quote="Thunder Dragon"]Fun fact: I've taken into consideration the [i]possibility[/i] of making this for a very long, long time. No promises, however. ;)[/quote] pants are off already

^ lol indeed, but yeah it's sure sounds like a decent idea besides that I usually dislike games made after movies.

[quote="supernova"]^ lol indeed, but yeah it's sure sounds like a decent idea besides that I usually dislike games made after movies.[/quote] Its usually because games made after movies are generally cash-ins that were only made to make a few quick bucks.

[quote="Xgoff"][quote="Thunder Dragon"]Fun fact: I've taken into consideration the [i]possibility[/i] of making this for a very long, long time. No promises, however. ;)[/quote] pants are off already[/quote] i thought they were always off

[quote="tygerbug"]Just throwing this idea out there. Forgotten Nintendo Games: The unreleased Super Famicom/SNES title Super Mario Bros. The Movie was intended for a Christmas 1993 release and was based (loosely) on the Bob Hoskins-starring film. Unusually for a Mario title, the game was developed not by Nintendo but by the California-based studio Visual Concepts, with Ringler Studios handling the also-unreleased Game Boy version. The simple platforming gameplay most closely resembles the original Super Mario Bros., albeit in a much darker, dystopic landscape. Similar to the then-popular Mortal Kombat series, actors were photographed as live-action video, and their likenesses then digitized into the game. Unlike Mortal Kombat, the game altered the actor likenesses to have "big heads" and be more cartoonish. The end result was somewhere between Mortal Kombat and Toshiba's Super Back to the Future 2. Live-capture footage was shot against blue screen during the shooting of the film itself, with actors including Bob Hoskins, Dennis Hopper, John Leguizamo, Samantha Mathis, Francesca Roberts and Lance Henriksen reprising their roles to some extent. However, the game does not closely follow the storyline of the film, taking equal inspiration from the first four Super Mario Bros. video games. The opening cutscene is very cartoonish and shows Koopa (Dennis Hopper) riding a giant mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex and kidnapping Princess Daisy (Samantha Mathis). Mario Bros. to the rescue! Or not. After the poor reception the Super Mario Bros movie received, Nintendo decided to shelve the game, and it was never publicly released. By all accounts an above-average platformer for the time, with an unusual visual style, we're still hoping for a ROM to leak …[/quote] Dear god.... You know, Thunder, you should make a one-level game just to give us a visual of how this would look XD.