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Scandalous Games
Scandalous Games is a video game history podcast that takes a closer look at video game related controversies. Every episode, historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story about a scandalous event from gaming's past to his friends who offer commentary on moral panics, ill-advised advertising campaigns, unusual figures, and any and all topics related to video game scandals and how they shaped the medium. New episodes drop on the first and third Tuesdays of every month! Check out more info, including show notes and sources, at http://scandalousgamespodcast.wordpress.com.
Scandalous Games
Super Mario Bros. (1993)-mentary (Scandalous Games Summer)
Historian Kevin Impellizeri usually shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends. However, we're taking a few months off for the second annual Scandalous Games Summer, where we offer syncable audio commentaries for video game related movies.
This time around Join Kevin, Andy Hunter, Phil Thomas, Lauren, and Kate Lynch as we trust the fungus and talk over the 1993 debut of licensed video game films, Super Mario Bros. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108255/), directed by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton and starring John Leguizamo, Samantha Mathis, and the late great Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper (among other actors).
If you want access to tons of resources related to this movie, including interviews, behind-the-scenes photos, and even early scripts, check out the Super Mario Bros. The Movie Archive (https://www.smbmovie.com/).
You can also check out Luke Owen, Lights, Camera, Game Over: How Video Game Movies Get Made (Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2017): 15-34 and Normal Caruso (aka The Gaming Historian), "The Making of the Super Mario Bros. Movie," YouTube, November 18, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve26GpPDTgY.
To sync the movie, queue up the film to 00:00:10 and wait for the countdown. If you want to cut through the intro and get right to the commentary, head to 00:13:57 in the recording.
Theme Music: Occam's Sikhwee by Sikh Knowledge (Free Music Archive: https://bit.ly/33G4sLO), used under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US (https://bit.ly/33JXogQ)
More info, including show notes and sources at http://scandalousgamespodcast.wordpress.com.