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Nintendo Comics Retrospective
Press the Buttons has up a look at the Nintendo game comics that were published in the early 90s. He includes some scans of the truly excellent writing and storytelling that could be found in those four color masterpieces. From the article: "Five series of comics were published: Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Captain N: The Game Master, Game Boy, and the compilation series Nintendo Comics System that consisted of reprints of stories from the other comics. Sold in limited quantities in comic book shops and an occasional K-Mart, the Nintendo comics never took the world by storm and today are mostly forgotten. When I was in the second grade my father would drive me to the local comic book shop each month so I could buy the latest issues."
Where is the third door in world 1-1, I searched and searched for years and years but never found it.
From TFA: "Back when Mario Mania was reaching its peak in 1990 and 1991..."
I'm not sure if I'd say 1990 was the peak of Mario's popularity. I clearly remember chomping down on a big, mouth-lacerating bowl of Mario Cereal (why is it that so many childrens' cereals are scientifically designed to cut the crap out of the roof of your mouth?)- and I didn't even own an NES. Mario had enough clout that, without even playing the games, I was willing to rush home from school and watch the Super Mario Bros. Super Show while eating a bowl of cereal that turned my mouth into a bleeding mess. That, to me, is the peak of "Mario Mania".