It’s a Wacky World, alright.
Mario has starred in a fair few million-selling games, but he’s also contributed to some titles which are less well-known – including Super Mario’s Wacky Worlds, a canned platformer for the Philips CD-i multimedia system from the early ’90s.
Developed in the US by Malibu-based NovaLogic – famous for the Comanche and Delta Force series – Wacky Worlds was pitched as a sequel to the legendary Super Mario World. Because of its deal with Nintendo relating to the Super NES CD-ROM add-on (inked when Nintendo left Sony at the altar), Philips had the right to use Nintendo characters in CD-i games (we have this deal to thank for the three Zelda titles on that platform).
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