CELEBRATING MARIO’S 35TH BIRTHDAY

10 Mario Facts You Didn’t Know

The iconic plumber has a remarkable history

When you think about video games, the name “Mario” pops immediately in your head. He is the face of an entire industry and has been around since the ‘80s. No video game character is as famous as Mario. A survey from the early ‘90s famously revealed that Mario was more recognizable to American children than Mickey Mouse.

September 13th, 2020 marked the official 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros., and we are here to celebrate our most beloved video game character and his brother Luigi (whose name, by the way, is a pun from the Japanese word Ruiji, which means “similar”).

Super Mario Bros. was one of the first games to feature a continuous side-scrolling platforming experience. It offered a richness in design and presentation that went beyond many of the far simpler arcade-style games of the era. This was a world you entered, not simply a place where the next high score could be found. It is fair to say that there were video games before Super Mario Bros. and video games after it. Shigeru Miyamoto’s little plumber changed the industry forever.

After 35 years, you might think you know everything there is to know about Mario. But let’s put that knowledge to the…