Today is March 10. Shorten that to Mar. 10 and you get something that looks a bit like, "Mario." Hence, the unofficial, "Mario Day," began and took off enough it is now an, "Official," holiday that Nintendo itself even acknowledges. Last year Mario Day randomly happened to overlap with Daylight Saving having us Spring Forward. This year, occurred yesterday, so Mario gets March 10th all to himself!
When I was young the big console war was between Sega and Nintendo. I was one of those people who didn't truly pick a side as I would go from a Sega Genesis to a Nintendo 64. Then, a Dreamcast, and so forth. Eventually, Sega quit making consoles and Nintendo won that particular war--although Sony's entrance with the PlayStation and Microsoft's joining in later with the Xbox ushered in a whole new era of console battles. That said, Nintendo is one of the oldest video-game companies around that has survived to the present day (Atari is more of a zombie of itself so we won't count it) and Mario is to thank for much of that success. Happy Mario Day, everyone!
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