Kids Klassics, also known as Kids Klassics Home Video, was a home video distribution company and the children's division of budget distributor GoodTimes Home Video. The company is most well known for releasing public domain children's content, but have also released budget-priced releases based on licensed content. One of which was a range of VHS tapes of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! from 1989 until 1991 under the "DIC Video" label.
Although GoodTimes stopped using the Kids Klassics brand in 1992, they continued to release children's content under their mainstream GoodTimes Home Video brand, including an additional Super Show! tape in 1993.
Format
Super Show! tapes by Kids Klassics were released in three different formats throughout three years.
- The 1989 run of tapes consisted of a single animated segment with two live-action segments in-between. There is no "The Super Mario Bros." intro proceeding the animated segment, however. This run of tapes was sponsored by Nestle Quik chocolate drink, and so, each Super Show! release featured an advertisement for the product before the Super Show! intro sequence. Two of these tapes - "The Bird! The Bird!" and "Pirates of the Koopa" were sold exclusively sold as mail-order releases through purchases of Nestle Quik.
- The 1990 run of tapes consists of a single live-action segment at the beginning, followed up with three animated segments. These releases once again do not contain the "The Super Mario Bros." opening, nor do they include any credits. After the last animated segment ends, it goes straight to Kids Klassics' logo sequence.
- The 1991 run of tapes contains four animated segments. These continue to utalise the standard Super Show! intro despite not containing live-action segments. The credits are also inserted back at the end.
As with all Kids Klassics releases, Super Show tapes were recorded in "LP" mode. Due to this, it isn't common for them to degrade or wear out faster than higher-quality releases. In some cases, GoodTimes would record the existing content over other tapes (mainly unsold stock of other releases): an example of which is a copy of "Butch Mario and the Luigi Kid" containing the last minute of a public domain Gulliver's Travels cartoon at the end of the tape after the Mario cartoons finish.
Releases
1989
1990
1991
1993 (GoodTimes)
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| Game companies
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Divisions and subsidiaries of Nintendo
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1-UP Studio • iQue • Mario Club Co., Ltd. • Next Level Games • Nintendo • Nintendo Cube • †Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development • Nintendo Entertainment Planning and Development • †Nintendo Research & Development 1 • †Nintendo Research & Development 2 • †Nintendo Software Planning & Development • Nintendo Software Technology Corporation • †Nintendo System Development • Retro Studios • Treehouse
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4J Studios • Access Games • Acquire • †AlphaDream • Argonaut Games • Arika • Armor Project • ArtePiazza • †Artoon • Arzest • Atari Corporation • †Atari, Inc. • Atlus • Bandai Namco Entertainment • †Banpresto • Beenox • Blit Interactive • †Boss Game Studios • Brainstorm Entertainment • †Brian A. Rice, Inc. • Brunswick • †Bullet-Proof Software • C3 Incorporated • Camelot Software Planning • Capcom • CAProduction • Caroline Software Incorporated • Cigam • Climax • Codesmith, Inc. • †Coleco • Cosmodog • Denaris Entertainment Software • Designer Software • Digitainment • Digital Works Entertainment • Dynatech Play2O • EA Canada • †Fabtek • †Falcon • Fantasy Factory • Firebird • Forever Entertainment • Game Arts • Game Freak • Good-Feel • †Gottlieb • GREZZO Co., Ltd. • GungHo Online Entertainment • HAL College of Technology & Design • HAL Laboratory • HAMSTER Corporation • Hexadrive • †Hudson Soft • Ikegami Tsushinki • indieszero • Intelligent Systems • Interplay • Iwasaki Engineering • Jupiter • Konami • Lightmaker • Magnum enter Co., Ltd. • Mani • Maygay • Million Colors • MISA • Mojang Studios • Monster Games • National Human Electronics • Natsume • Nelsonic Industries • NeoPets • NHN Entertainment • Nichimen Graphics • †NovaLogic • †Ocean Software • Orpheus Software • Other Ocean Interactive • Paon DP • Playtime • PlayWorks Digital Limited • POP Multimedia • Presage Software • Racjin • Radical Entertainment • Rare • †Renegade Kid • Riedel Software Productions • Roklan • Royal Philips Electronics • S.I.U. • Scientific Toys • Sega • Sharp Corporation • Silverball Studios • †Skip Ltd. • SkyBox Labs • Skyworks Technologies, Inc. • SmileBoom Co., Ltd. • Softnica • †Software Creations • Sora Ltd. • Sound Racer Ltd. • Spike Chunsoft • Square Enix • †St.GIGA • Sunwise • †SUZAK Inc. • Switch Entertainment Inc. • T's MUSIC Co., Ltd. • Tantalus Media • †The Software Toolworks • TNX • Tokyo Electron • TOSE Software Co. • Treasure • Ubisoft • Vanpool • Velan Studios • Vicarious Visions • VPI.net • WILL Co., Ltd. • Yuke's • †Yutaka
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Book publishers
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Archie Comics • Dark Horse Comics • Fleetway Publications • Guinness World Records • Prima Games • Scholastic • Shogakukan • Valiant Comics
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†DIC Entertainment • Hong Guang Animation (Su Zhou) • Illumination • †Medialab • Nelvana • †Pacific Rim Productions, Inc. • †Sei Young Animation Co., Ltd. • Sony Pictures
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| Home video distributors
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†Abbey Home Entertainment • Beyond Home Entertainment • Bim Bum Bam Video • Buena Vista Home Video • Disky Communications • Egmont Film • GoodView Home Video • HVN • IDP Home Video • †Kids Klassics • Lionsgate Home Entertainment • Manga Distribution• Maximum Entertainment • MRA Entertainment • NCircle Entertainment • On Air Video • Paramount Home Video • †Phase 4 Films • Pickwick Video • Pidax Film • Producciones Panther • Roadshow Entertainment • Shout! Factory • SMI url • Sterling Entertainment Group • Target • The Video Collection • UIG Entertainment GmbH • Universal Pictures • Wendros
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| Collectible / toy makers
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Ahomaro Games • †Banpresto • Bioworld • BlackMilk Clothing • ERTL • Fangamer • First4Figures • Furuta • Gelato Pique • Hallmark • Jakks Pacific • K'NEX • LEGO • Mattel • PopCo Entertainment • S.H. Figuarts • San-ei Co., Ltd. • Takara • Tomy • Toy Biz
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| Food companies
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Burger King • Freiberger • Keebler • Kellogg's • The Kraft Heinz Company • McDonald's • Nagatanien • Sonic Drive-In • †Sunshine Biscuits • Taco Bell • Wendy's
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| Cosmetics companies
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Lush • shu uemura
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| Miscellaneous
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Aeon • EMI Music Publishing • †MediaBrowser • Pure West • Tesla • Twinkl • Yodobashi Camera
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