Talking Point: Just How Old Is Mario In The Super Mario Bros. Movie?

It’s not a birthday, it’s a 1-Up.

Back when Mario was nothing more than an 8-bit sprite on our NES consoles, we were not all that concerned about age. After all, he’s the jumpy mushroom guy, who cares how many birthdays he’s seen? This is the kind of mentality that’s been carried through into most of the subsequent games. Even as the character’s design became increasingly detailed, his age wasn’t at the forefront of our minds because we had other, gameplay-based things to think about. But now that The Super Mario Bros. Movie is here, all of a sudden, we care.

No longer is Mario just a character that we control, but we’ve seen another side to him thanks to Illumination and Nintendo’s film. We’ve seen that has a life of his own outside of the games. With this comes questions that we might not have asked after playing, say, Super Mario Odyssey: what are his hobbies? Does he have any dreams? And, most importantly, just how old is this guy?

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