A sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. sold for $660,000 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas last Friday. This is setting a bad precedent for video game collectors like myself.
One of the coolest gifts I got for Christmas was Nintendo's Game & Watch. It's a limited release device to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the release of Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo Entertainment Center.
Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo Entertainment System catapulted me into my love of video games. September 2020 marks the 35th anniversary of the original release and Nintendo is celebrating in a big way.
These kind of stories always make me remember the fun I had with certain toys as a kid but also how it was never thought to maybe buy a second just to keep for an occasion like this.
Lego has been delivering licensed sets to build from Star Wars, Marvel, Minecraft and many more over the years. Now they have the ultimate party in Nintendo, specifically Super Mario Bros.
According to the 13,000 gamers who voted on the Guinness World Records' website, Mario is the greatest video game character of all time.
The plumber with amazing leaping abilities edged out another Nintendo favorite, Link, from "Legend of Zelda," for the top spot. All told, Nintendo had 11 characters among the top 50.
The survey was done for the book "Guinness World Records 2011 Ga