The Brief

Super Mario Bros. hit a milestone turning 40 years old on Saturday.

Nintendo’s top-selling video game debuted in Japan on Sept. 13, 1985.

Super Mario Bros. is an instant hit for Nintendo

The backstory:

The character Mario was first introduced in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong, as a playable character who must rescue someone from a giant gorilla.

Mario later had an expanded role in his own video along with his brother Luigi, as the plumbing brothers duo, dressed in hats and overalls, journey through a colorful world to the Mushroom Kingdom to save a princess from an evil dinosaur-like creature named Bowser, King of the Koopa.

After debuting on the Japanese version of the Nintendo system, Famicon, Super Mario Bros. became an instant hit with gamers worldwide. Guinness

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