The least known TV appearance for Mario?
Keiji Dragon
Posted: Oct 18 2009, 08:08 PM


lol wut?


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEk8gxC06rU

This was something I found the other day in my old VHS tape collection. What you see here is a clip of Mario featured in a TV game show from Spain called El Gran Juego De La Oca. This program used to air on Telemundo (now called TeleFutura, I believe) back in the mid 1990's, and I used to DIG this show when I was a lot younger.

Basically there were four adult contestants, two men and two women, and what the game was about was this giant board game based on the centuries-old children's game, Juego de la oca (Game of the Goose). As they played the game, they competed in extreme stunts [at least for the time, =P] in a test of mind, physicality, and courage to win money and prizes. Stunts included activities like diving into a swimming pool to disarm some explosives underwater, or pulling ribbons from wild animals, to name a few.

What does this have to do with Mario? Well, in this segment of the show, the contestant "San Pablo" has to rescue Princess DAISY who's trapped inside an iron bar prison. To achieve this, he has to use a frame welder to burn through the metal/iron/copper/whatever, and set Daisy free! Daisy is basically a actress in a costume, just like Mario.

Apparently, the Spain division for Nintendo (Aptly named Nintendo of Spain) was a sponsor for that program, since they advertised the Mario series periodically through this show (Specifically, the Game Boy portable console I believe, hence Princess Daisy's "appearance" instead of Peach.)

Just something I'd thought I'd like to share. To make a discussion of this, let me ask if anyone has ever seen any random TV appearances of Mario anytime? Is that even a valid question at all? If not, then let's discuss about this obscure Mario TV appearance.


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The Radiance Paladin
Posted: Nov 2 2009, 12:33 PM


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Well...it's different I give you that, but confusing at the same time. But it does remind me of the good old days of Super Mario Land. cool.gif


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Hyper Knuckles
Posted: Nov 27 2009, 07:52 AM


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That was odd, guess I'm not into that kinda stuff
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