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Arnold Schwarzenegger Passed on King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.

Distressed Retro Replay editorial collage: Arnold passed on Koopa, with a monochrome Schwarzenegger portrait and a production-inspired scene.

Arnold Schwarzenegger could have been Mario’s movie villain. He was approached to play King Koopa in the 1993 Super Mario Bros. film, but passed. Dennis Hopper got the part instead, leaving us with a casting what-if that’s almost as strange as the finished movie. Try picturing Arnold in Dinohattan for a moment. This was already a Mario adaptation with a human-looking reptilian ruler, so a different leading villain could have taken it… Read more

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Double Dragon
A blue-clad fighter meets a street gang outside a brick building, with a timer above the action and a short health bar below. Double Dragon is Technos Japan's…
A blue-clad fighter meets a street gang outside a brick building, with a timer above the action and a short health bar below. Double Dragon is Technos Japan's…
Bucky O'Hare
Bucky faces a flying enemy and a small robot on a green patch of ground, his blaster ready. Konami's 1992 arcade Bucky O'Hare sends the crew of the…
Bucky faces a flying enemy and a small robot on a green patch of ground, his blaster ready. Konami's 1992 arcade Bucky O'Hare sends the crew of the…
Battle Circuit
Yellow Iris faces green enemies in a red mechanical room while a countdown hangs over the fight. Battle Circuit is Capcom's 1997 arcade beat-em-up, sending an eccentric team…
Yellow Iris faces green enemies in a red mechanical room while a countdown hangs over the fight. Battle Circuit is Capcom's 1997 arcade beat-em-up, sending an eccentric team…
Aliens
Purple aliens close in around an armed survivor while gunfire crosses the corridor in Konami's Aliens. This 1990 arcade shooter takes its film license through industrial rooms, tunnels,…
Purple aliens close in around an armed survivor while gunfire crosses the corridor in Konami's Aliens. This 1990 arcade shooter takes its film license through industrial rooms, tunnels,…
Skylanders: Trap Team
Trap Team nails the part of Skylanders that always felt most like magic: putting a defeated villain into a physical Trap, then bringing that enemy back out as…
Trap Team nails the part of Skylanders that always felt most like magic: putting a defeated villain into a physical Trap, then bringing that enemy back out as…