35 years ago, Super Mario Bros, the very first Super Mario game, was released.
Sure, the moustachioed hero first appeared as Jumpman a few years earlier in Donkey Kong but he wasn’t the all-jumping, Goomba-stomping, mushroom-eating champion we now know and love.Since then he’s been the cornerstone of every Nintendo console, fronting at least 21 games in the Super Mario franchise as well as trying his hand at tennis, golf, karting, football and fighting a variety of other video game icons in a brutal battle royale.
To celebrate his enduring popularity, Nintendo has gone all out for his 35th birthday. It’s what he deserves.Nintendo is bundling together three of the greatest modern Mario platform games together in a surely-too-good-to-be-true.
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