Nintendo doesn’t have the strongest history with the Spooky October holiday of Halloween. After researching all that I could scrub I found more than enough content to talk about. So not only has Halloween been used more for marketing in more recent years by Nintendo, but there’s also a prescendent that it’s been used since the early days.
I present you the Super Mario Bros Super Show – Halloween Spooktacular
While the actual Super Mario cartoon from the 80s did not have a real Halloween special, it sort of did. These fan compilation puts all the Monster related parodies the cartoon had and all the halloween inspired live action segments they did as well. It does feel like a special you could’ve bought on VHS. You have Ernie Hudson as part of the Slime Busters instead of Ghostbusters, Elvira mistress of the dark and of course a generic Dracula Vampire. For cartoons you had Koopenstein, Count Koopula. Everything you’d need to get your Mario Halloween mood just right. What makes the compilation great is it includes the original music so Thriller is there. The actual segments are all great and we even see Lou Albano eating Nintendo Cereal System.
Segment names: Slime Busters with Ernie Hudson, Count Koopula Thriller, Bats in the Basement vampire, Mummies Curse with Elvira mistress of the dark, mario meets koopzilla, vampire until ready, koopenstein,
Animal Crossing is one of those games that has included Halloween as a holiday you get to play in. It has appeared in most games and you usually get some type of Spooky Series furniture or Trick or Treat activity depending on which game it is since it can change slightly. Always fun to check the event out during halloween.
Nintendo’s mobile game efforts have of course needed to include some type of halloween events and we’ve seen it in both Mario Kart Tour and in Pikmin Bloom, Dragalia Lost, Miitomo. All those have featured some type of Halloween Event, whether outfits, new characters, but something related to the holidays to get you to play during the season. Halloween is an actual holiday in the fantasy world of Dragalia Lost. Interesting.
Pokemon has a long history with Halloween. Even if only slightly featured in the anime and games, by having spooky things. They’ve always gone out on merchandise and marketing material for the holiday since the early days. With that said I especially wanted to feature the Pokemon Trick R Treat cards. Reprints with a Spooky stamp to make them special, featuring mostly ghost related Pokemon for you to give away instead of candy. Not the greatest cards perhaps but a fun little gimmick that I adore.
Splatoween was a Splatfest for both Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3. the first one featuring Trick vs Treat and the latter having Zombie vs Skeleton vs Ghost as your friend. They were repeated but Trick always won the popular vote while losing the Open and Pro Clout. Ghost winning the popular and Skeletont he Open/Pro. The gear you got for being in the splatfest being Halloween inspired costumes. After Animal Crossing probably the best implementation so far.
I got plenty of stuff without having to use technical Halloween related stuff like Luigi’s Mansion. In fact, some of these could’ve been expanded into their own articles by themselves. I didn’t even get into the Kirby anime having a two part Halloween episode called Scare Tactics. With that said Nitnendo wishes you trick or treat
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