Fun Wizard Facts

The TV Version

In order to be fit for cable networks like Nickelodeon, The Wizard had to be significantly modified (contains some spoilers):

- All foul language was removed or replaced.
- All references to the "He touched my breast" joke were removed.
- In the scene where Corey tries to scare Haley with a mask, the part where Haley slugs Corey was removed.
- The car crash scenes were shortened greatly, resulting in very jumpy music.
- The Stereo mix is a bit different as far as volume levels.
- The closed captioning is considerably more sparse, omitting many background sounds.
Further promoting madness, sometimes a network will opt to make its own editing of the movie, so this list may not be exact.

Make it Double (Dragon)

If you look closely during the Double Dragon, you'll notice that one of the gang members has purple hair. Though, James certainately has deflated since his first movie appearance.

I Ain't 'Fraid of no Lucas!

There are some interesting oddities between The Wizard and Ghostbusters 2. Both were released near the end of 1989. In Ghostbusters 2, Louis Tully suggests playing Super "Mairio" Bros. Additionally, the Ghostbusters use a NES Advantage (and some positively charged slime) to control the Statue of Liberty.

Other Facts

- Although part of this movie is set in Utah, none of it was shot there.
- While SMB3 became the best selling game of all time, the Power Glove failed to sell.
- The catering service used for the movie was Mario's Catering.
- The word Nintendo is only spoken twice in the movie.
- The name of the first assistant director is Jerry Ketcham (yes, that's the right spelling).
- Additional help was need to synchronize the film (which moved at 24 frames per second) and the games (which moved at 60 fields/30 frames per second).
- Nick Woods notes that his father's casserole "cannot possibly belong to one of the four major food groups."

dUM Misstakes in Da Wizard

- One thing many people forget about Double Dragon is that it featured a VS mode, which Haley and Jimmy could of faced off in.
- While Jimmy plays Ninja Gaiden, Haley says that Jimmy hasn't even taken a hit yet, but he's missing two notches.
- Also, Jimmy continues to play after the magazine is put on his table (whoa...he really is a wizard).
- This isn't really a mistake, but I used to misinterpet Nick saying "it's Corey's old video game," as "a score's-0 video game," which actually does describe Super Mario Bros. 2 very well.
- Many people have blasted this movie for the scene where Corey's father plays Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. However, if you listen to him, he says he, "almost beat Megaturtle at the end of level three." If you lose all your turtles, you go back to level one.
-However, my mother did note his was flailing his arms quite a bit for level one's timid action.
- Unfortunately, his performance in Zelda 2 is less convincing. He has to flail around to get past the River Devil (an enemy that disappears with a toot of a flute), and then he begins describing events that occur late in the sixth palace, though it is possible he lost all his lives and came back and is describing his accomplishments in the past tense, the only thing that could explain him being in a town.
- Unlike what Corey says, in Zelda 2, you must find the Triforce of Courage, not Zelda.
- Perhaps this was intentional, but the actual city of "Greenriver," Utah is spelled as two words.
- I realize it's Haley's home, but Reno is really out of the way for a trip to L.A..
- In the movie, Haley appears to spend hours with a game counselor. In reality, there is a limit of about seven or ten minutes.
- There's no such thing as a warp in Ninja Gaiden, but this is Corey again, so go figure.
- Finding a warp in SMB3 is a bad idea, as getting a whistle in the World 1 fortress forfeits you the time points for the level, and then warping makes you take tougher levels.
- Corey said a warp lets you jump points. You get no points for warping in SMB3. If he wanted to imply an change of settings, world would have been a better word.
- Before SMB3, the t