Mario and themes related to the franchise have appeared in television shows, anime, films, comics and manga, merchandise, and musical performance.

King Koopa's Kool Kartoons is a live action children's television show broadcast in Southern California during the holiday season of 1989/1990.

The 30-minute program was originally broadcast during the after-school afternoon time-slots on Los Angeles-based KTTV Fox 11.

[2] Super Mario World is an animated television series based on the SNES video game of the same name.

Episodes of Super Mario World were later shown as part of the syndication package Captain N & The Video Game Masters.

Mario's original arcade game appearance in Donkey Kong makes a cameo in the 2015 science fiction action comedy film Pixels.

Directed by Masami Hata and produced by Masakatsu Suzuki and Tsunemasa Hatano, the plot centers on Mario and Luigi, who go on a quest to save Princess Peach from Bowser.

Super Mario Bros. is a 1993 American science-fiction comedy adventure fantasy film[8] based on the Japanese video game series of the same name by Nintendo and distributed by The Walt Disney Studios through Hollywood Pictures, thus becoming one of several rare occasions where Disney and Nintendo have collaborated.

The film was directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, written by Parker Bennett, Terry Runté and Ed Solomon, and stars Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis, Fisher Stevens, Fiona Shaw and Richard Edson.

The story revolves around the titular Mario brothers, as they find a parallel universe, ruled by the ruthless dictator King Koopa, who seeks to merge the two dimensions so that he can rule both worlds, leaving it up to Mario and Luigi to join forces with Princess Daisy, the daughter of the world's displaced King, to stop Koopa.

[13] The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a 2023 animated film adaptation of the franchise, produced by Illumination and Nintendo and distributed by Universal Pictures.

It is co-produced by Nintendo fellow and series' creator Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri.

[14] The film stars the voices of Chris Pratt as Mario, Anya Taylor-Joy as Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong, Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek and Sebastian Maniscalco as Foreman Spike; longtime Mario voice actor Charles Martinet features in a series of cameos.

[20][21] The plot of the episodes involve characters from the Mario franchise in the stories of three folktales: Momotarō, Issun-bōshi and Snow White.

The Terebikko allowed viewers to interact with the anime using a telephone-shaped microphone to answer multiple choice questions, such as what will hatch from Yoshi's egg.

The cast includes Tōru Furuya as Mario, Yū Mizushima as Luigi, Yuriko Yamamoto as Peach, Chika Sakamoto as Yoshi and Takeshi Watabe as Bowser.

The purpose of the video is to teach Japanese children English, including learning to master the pronunciation of the alphabet and counting from 1 to 10.

Mario's voice was provided by Gerri Sorrells, who was well-known for her role in NHK's educational programs.

[citation needed] There is a third manga series, published by Kodansha in Comic Bombom, written and drawn by Kazuki Motoyama,[42] from 1988 to 1998.

[44] It was part of a licensing deal with Nintendo, featuring characters from their video games and the cartoons based on them.

Nintendo has licensed several electromechanical games for use in arcades and casinos, including two popular pinball machines by Gottlieb.

Super Mario Bros., released on April 25, 1992, was the first Gottlieb machine that included a dot-matrix display tracking scores and various animations.

[citation needed] Mario has appeared on lunch boxes, T-shirts, magazines, commercials (notably, in a Got Milk?

[59] Multiple Mario-themed versions of popular board and card games have been released by USAopoly, including Monopoly,[60] TacDex,[61] and Connect 4.

[67][68] Gamers can commemorate the occasion by playing games from the series, or with Mario-themed events, and coordinating on social media with the hashtag #NationalMarioDay.

The Super Mario series of video games has a large amount of music, much of it composed by Koji Kondo.