Did Nintendo Purchase All Rights to 'Tremendous Hornio Brothers' Grownup Movies?

Initially released in 1985, Tremendous Mario Bros. and successive video games within the sequence have maintained a stronghold within the gaming world within the many years since. From motion pictures and merchandise to a real-life “world” opening in 2025, there isn’t any doubt the digital brothers infiltrated the world of popular culture — and, judging by long-standing web scuttlebutt, the grownup movie trade as nicely.

A post (archived) on Reddit on Sept. 12, 2024, claimed Nintendo owned the rights to 2 pornographic motion pictures starring Ron Jeremy as the primary character, Mario. On the time of this writing, the submit had acquired 14,000 upvotes. 

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On-line Information and Interviews Point out the Motion pictures Existed

The picture proven within the Reddit submit above is definitely the film poster from the 1993 live-action film “Super Mario Bros.,” produced by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. Collectibles auctioneer Heritage Auctions bought a duplicate of the poster in 2008.

Following the discharge of the 1993 movie, the story goes, porn director Buck Adams made a two-part pornographic adaptation of the movie.

The Film Database — a web based, user-editable database — describes the plot of “Super Hornio Brothers” as follows:

An influence surge sends whacked out laptop programmer Squeegie Hornio and his brother Ornio into our on-line world the place they meet up with, have intercourse with, and even battle, a wide range of characters from a preferred online game. Hornio Brothers Squeegie and Ornio battle to search out their manner out of our on-line world after an influence surge lands them inside a pc sport.

Its sequel, Super Hornio Brothers II, picked up the place the primary installment left off:

Hornio Brothers Squeegie and Ornio battle to search out their manner out of our on-line world after an influence surge lands them inside a pc sport.

The TMDB web site options images of what seems to be VHS tape covers:

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Web lore holds Nintendo purchased the rights to the “Tremendous Hornio Brothers” movies instantly after their manufacturing “with the intention to halt any and all distribution of the 2 movies,” in keeping with the leisure web site Comicbook. Comedian E book Sources, a web based dialogue website, echoes this story, however neither gives conclusive proof corroborating the movies’ existence.

In truth, apart from the gossip in on-line boards and anecdotal descriptions, Snopes was unable to search out proof to conclusively show the movies existed or that Nintendo secured all rights to them.

One thing Terrible, a parody and humor web site, described “The Tremendous Hornio Brothers Saga” in a post printed on June 25, 2009, and posted a clip of the movie’s introduction to YouTube.

In 2014, a consumer shared images stated to indicate the VHS to a One thing Terrible discussion board. 

In September 2015, Vice printed an interview with Jeremy wherein the grownup movie star confirmed the existence of the movies and described making them:

VICE: You’ve got completed 1000’s of flicks. Do you keep in mind Tremendous Hornio Brothers?
Ron Jeremy: Yeah! Buck Adams did an awesome job. He wished to simulate the precise present. I had by no means seen the online game—I do not play them in any respect, besides after I go to Hugh Hefner’s mansion. He has some video video games within the again room. Apart from that, I by no means play video video games ever. I believe they’re boring. As a former schoolteacher, Asians are kicking our ass! Whereas our youngsters are ingesting beer, and enjoying video video games, Asians are getting excessive SAT scores. If you happen to have a look at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, it is virtually all Asian and Scandinavian. [Note: This isn’t true.] Not a variety of Individuals there, and it is on our soil. It is simply bizarre. Nothing incorrect with video video games recreationally, however our youngsters live on it. , not even studying books anymore.

What did you discover particularly good in regards to the job Buck Adams did?
He tried very arduous to simulate the fundamental present. Buck knew Mario Brothers in and out. I have been informed earlier than that I seem like one of many brothers. They’ve made jokes about it. I even did layouts in magazines the place I needed to impersonate that, with a plunger in a single hand, overalls, a giant, massive mustache. Fairly humorous, you realize? He had good consideration to element. It was one among his higher movies. He added that noise after I walked, you realize? (makes a video-gamey boink-boink-boink sound) Plus it had good intercourse scenes. Fairly primary factor should you’re gonna watch an grownup film. That is gotta be sizzling too.

It was one among his actually, actually higher gigs. I am fairly positive it spawned a sequel.

Snopes additionally discovered a record within the U.S. Copyright Workplace database for a “Tremendous Hornio Brothers” videocassette printed on Nov. 11, 2020. The registered copyright claimant was “Midnight Video.” There was no point out of Nintendo on the registration.

For this causes, we imagine that it’s true Adams directed the “Tremendous Hornio Brothers” movies and that Jeremy starred in them.

Nintendo’s Supposed Possession of ‘Hornio’ Film Rights Unverified

The existence of the adult-themed “Hornio Brothers” movies has been described as an “internet legend.” Snopes reached out to Nintendo for affirmation on whether or not the corporate owned “Tremendous Hornio Brothers” rights, however our requests went unanswered. 

The declare Nintendo owns the rights seems to have originated on a now-deleted (although archived) model of Jeremy’s web site:

A few of chances are you’ll be questioning why it’s that we, Ron Jeremy’s Official Web site, don’t supply Tremendous Hornio Brothers or Tremendous Hornio Brothers 2 inside our large library of Ron Jeremy movies. The easy reply is “Nintendo”. After Tremendous Hornio Brothers was produced, the Nintendo company purchased the rights to the movies with the intention to halt their distribution indefinitely. In any other case, we’d 100% supply up Tremendous Hornio Brothers for streaming glory. As you may see from the edited spotlight reel above, it’s a traditional hilarious Ron Jeremy porn parody.

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