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30 years ago, this movie gave video game adaptations a bad name | Digital Trends
Digital TrendsStory by Blair Marnell
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The 30-year-old Super Mario Bros. movie that tanked the video game adaptation genre and sent Nintendo running from Hollywood – until their triumphant return in 2023.
beat sheet
- Super Mario Bros. (1993) was the first major Hollywood flop that set the video game movie curse in motion, driving Nintendo out of Tinseltown for three decades.
- It wasn't until the 1994 Double Dragon movie that video game adaptations hit a new low, cementing the genre's reputation for disastrous failures – until The Super Mario Bros. Movie revived Nintendo's Hollywood ambitions in 2023.
call sheet
Uwe Boll, Nintendo, Super Mario Bros. (1993), House of the Dead, BloodRayne, Postal, Far Cry, Double Dragon (1994), The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)