The New Super Mario World 1-Disc Box Set DVD

The New Super Mario World, more commonly known as Super Mario World: The Animated Series, is the early-1990s Mario-themed cartoon that picks up after the events of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and brings Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, Toad, and the new green dinosaur ally Yoshi into prehistoric Dinosaur Land. The show aired on NBC and YTV in 1991, with a tightly written 13-episode run.

The format is the appeal: each episode pairs a fresh Dinosaur Land complication (a fire, a wheel-and-cart caveman crisis, a haunted episode, a Christmas, a rock-TV setup) with the team's running attempts to keep King Koopa and his Koopa Kids from taking over, holding the show's blend of game-derived character work and goofy genre parody as the engine. Episode titles like "Fire Sale," "Send In The Clowns," "The Night Before Cave Christmas," "The Yoshi Shuffle," and "Mama Luigi" telegraph the show's commitment to genre-driven storytelling. The animation has the unmistakable early-1990s look of its era.

For early-1990s NBC and YTV programming, this was the third entry in the popular Mario animated continuity, sitting in the lineage of game-property cartoons that defined a stretch of the era. Suited for longtime Mario fans, viewers with affection for the era's particular brand of Nintendo-derived TV, and anyone curious about the long lineage of Mario animation that has run across decades.

Standouts worth revisiting include "Fire Sale" (the opener), "The Night Before Cave Christmas" (a holiday turn), "The Yoshi Shuffle" (a fan-favorite Yoshi spotlight), "Rock TV" (a goofier swing), and "Mama Luigi" (the closer that became one of the most-quoted episodes of the era). This single-disc collection brings all 13 episodes of The New Super Mario World into one place.