Super Mario Bros. turned 30 years old this week

15 Sep 2015

Steve Wright

This week marked Super Mario Bros.’ thirtieth birthday. You know, if inanimate objects celebrated birthdays.

Super Mario Bros. made its debut on 13 September 1985 in Japan. Aussies had to wait nearly two years for the chance to play locally, however.

As long as you don’t mind his former name of Jumpman in 1981‘s Donkey Kong, Mario himself is celebrating his thirty-fourth birthday this year. Celebrations all around!

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.