James & Mike Mondays E37 - Super Mario's Wacky Worlds [Unreleased Mario Game] (CD-i)

James Rolfe and Mike Matei play Super Mario's Wacky Worlds, a canceled game for Phillips CD-i. As if Hotel Mario wasn't bad enough this unfinished CD-i Mario Game is even worse!

About Super Mario's Wacky Worlds:
Super Mario's Wacky Worlds was a cancelled Mario platform game for the Philips CD-I. The games was made to be a sequel to Super Mario World, an SNES game released in 1990. While an early prototype of the game received positive feedback from Nintendo, the game was cancelled due to poor sales of the CD-I.

Super Mario's Wacky Worlds is about Mario in a series of wacky worlds including ancient lands, haunted worlds, jungle and icelands, & more. The game was attempted to duplicate the gameplay of Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo. Though the game's sprites are base on Super Mario World, the level design is based on Earth locations rather than the Mushroom Kingdom or Mushroom World.

This game was to be one of the few games in Philips deal with Nintendo that actually played like a Nintendo game whereas other titles such as Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon and Hotel Mario featured Nintendo characters and aspects of Nintendo gameplay, but were made without much more than concept approval from Nintendo in Japan and differed significantly from the NES/SNES games. Despite its ambition to look and play just like a real Super Mario game, this title was never completed due to the poor sales of the Philips CD-i. This game came to us as a donation so we decided to try it out!

Originally uploaded March 10, 2014.