{"id":1513,"date":"2025-08-04T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:51:57","slug":"feature-what-we-expect-from-nintendo-for-super-mario-bros-40th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/feature-what-we-expect-from-nintendo-for-super-mario-bros-40th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: What We Expect From Nintendo For Super Mario Bros.' 40th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"
Four decades of 1-1.<\/strong><\/p>\n Five years ago, Nintendo made an appropriately big thing of Super Mario Bros.<\/a>‘ 35th anniversary, with a bespoke Direct<\/a> broadcast featuring a bunch of new games and, naturally, merch celebrating the Famicom release of video gaming’s most famous platformer on 13th September 1985.<\/p>\n Half a decade on and the 40th anniversary is just over a month away. With Switch 2 out in the wild and a Mario platformer-shaped gap in Nintendo’s announced lineup, it feels natural that there would be similar celebrations planned for this year. Super Mario Bros. 35<\/del> 40<\/a>, anyone?<\/p>\n