Game is ostensibly a racing game, with a few unique twists. Players act as Mario, navigating an illustrated facsimile of the Mushroom Kingdom’s terrain, dodging a handful of Koopa’s minions, collecting coins, and accumulating extra lives as they race to defeat Bowser and rescue the Princess. Game preserves many of the visual and thematic trappings of the video game. Unlike the film, Milton Bradley’s Super Mario Bros. Why see the film if it duplicates the game? But if it strays too far from its source, the adaptation becomes, at best, a superficial contrivance and at worst, a vehicle for Dennis Hopper to flick a forked tongue as President Koopa. film leans too heavily on its source, it becomes extraneous. What we as fans, consumers, and critics apparently desire from adaptations is media wedged between the competing demands of fidelity and divergence. The traits that define their successes-mimicry, referentiality, quotation, familiarity-also instigate their failures.
(Image courtesy of author)Īdaptations are a paradoxical part of our media culture.
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